Perl for Quality Assurance and Testing

Perl is commonly used for testing software, hardware and networks and for quality assurance. The Perl QA project concentractes a lot of information about it. So does the Perl QA Wiki.

TAP - the "Test Anything Protocol"

TAP is a simple protocol for test scripts (in any programming language) to communicate with a test harness. Invented by Larry Wall for Perl 1, and having been evolved further, TAP is very suitable for universal language-independent testing.

Perl has several TAP Consumers that can read TAP, process it and do something with the results.

Tutorials and Courses

• Testing with Perl - complete online slides for the course by Gabor Szabo.
• Test::Tutorial - introduces writing tests with the Perl test modules.