Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook Confirmed Errata

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Version	Location	Description	Submitted By
Printed	Page xvii 2nd para under "Acknowledgments"	"David Adler" should be "David H. Adler"	Anonymous
Printed	Page 7 third paragraph	"make_test" should be replaced with "make test" (space -> underscore) in the line "The TEST_FILES argument to make_test can simplify this."	Anonymous
Printed	Page 15 Line 4	Change the use_ok() line once more: BEGIN { use_ok( 'AnalyzeSentence', @subs, '$WORD_SEPARATOR') or exit; } Should instead read: Change the <my @subs> and <use_ok()> lines to: BEGIN { my @subs = qw( words count_words ); use_ok( 'AnalyzeSentence', @subs, '$WORD_SEPARATOR' ) or exit; }	Anonymous
Printed	Page 48 second paragraph	The last sentence of the paragraph reads: "Understand what your test suite does not test and why is valuable...". The first word should be "Understanding".	Anonymous
Printed	Page 48 code	our@EXPORT should be: our @EXPORT	Anonymous
Printed	Page 51 example - between.t	In plain Test::Builder::Tester downloaded from CPAN there is no subroutine called test_pass() so this example doesn't work unless you change test_pass() to sth else (i.e. test_out()).	Anonymous
Printed	Page 54 second code listing, the emboldened command should start with	./new_harness instead of: new_harness	Anonymous
Printed	Page 54 code portions	Tested passed should be: Tests passed	Anonymous
Printed	Page 57-58 in the source of run_smoketest.pl	my ($revision, $path, $failures) = @_; ..should be... my ($path, $revision, $failures) = @_;	Anonymous
Printed	Page 58 4th line from the end, subject of mail	1) There is a typo: 'Subect' instead of 'Subject' (same typo exists in sample code, middle of page) 2) Subject mentioned here does not match subject put in the sample code; there is no 'For' and $path included.	Anonymous
Printed	Page 74 First code listing, bold text	Second line ending with "...,Taxes::Loophole" should have a trailing backslash to indicate a line continuation: --module=Taxes::Autocomplete,Taxes::Loophole	Anonymous
Printed	Page 76 Second paragraph of actual body text	s/such a a string/such a string/	Anonymous
Printed	Page 151 First paragraph, third line	s/testingframeworks/testing frameworks	Anonymous
Printed	Page 153 last example	Instead of "prove queue.t", it should read, "prove -v queue.t"	Anonymous
Printed	Page 161 "What about.." answer line 3	"want to to skip" should be: "want to skip"	Anonymous
Printed	Page 161 running prove.t	That paragraph should begin, Run F<queue_word.t> with F<prove> ... And the bold command should instead be, $ prove -v queue_word.t	Anonymous
Printed	Page 181 About the authors, 2nd paragraph	In the about the authors section describing Ian Langworth, the last line reads "...making robust and high-qualuty code an easier goal to achieve". "quality" is misspelled "qualuty".	Anonymous