Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook
by Ian Langworth, chromatic

This errata page lists errors outstanding in the most recent printing.

If you have technical questions or error reports, you can send them to
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This page was updated March 16, 2006.

Here's a key to the markup:
	[page-number]: serious technical mistake
	{page-number}: minor technical mistake
	<page-number>: important language/formatting problem
	(page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
	?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification



Confirmed errors:


(xvii)  2nd para under "Acknowledgments";
"David Adler" should be "David H. Adler"


(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."


{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;
        }


(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".


(48) code;
our@EXPORT
should be:
our @EXPORT



{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()).



(54), second code listing, the emboldened command should start with:
	./new_harness
instead of:
	new_harness



(54)  code portions;
    Tested passed
should be:
    Tests passed



{57-58}  in the source of run_smoketest.pl;
    my ($revision, $path, $failures) = @_;
..should be...
    my ($path, $revision, $failures) = @_;




(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.


{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 \



(76)  Second paragraph of actual body text;
s/such a a string/such a string/



(151)  First paragraph, third line;
s/testingframeworks/testing frameworks



(153)  last example;
Instead of "prove queue.t", it should read, "prove -v queue.t"



(161) "What about.." answer line 3;
"want to to skip"
should be:
"want to skip"



(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



(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".