作者：Richard Foley, Andy Lester
出版日期：March 14, 2005
出版社：Apress
页数：296
ISBN：ISBN-10: 1590594541 ISBN-13: 978-1590594544
文件格式：PDF

Product Description
This one goes on the ‘keeper’ shelf, for sure. –Tony Lawrence,aplawrence.comCombining the best features of C, UNIX utilities, andregular expressions, Perl has grown as one of the most powerful andpopular scripting languages. The valuable Perl is often used for systemadministration, text processing and Web programming. It is even beingused for more exotic areas, like bioinformatics. Perl is supported byall of the most prominent operating systems, including Windows, Unix,OS/2, Amiga, and others.Pro Perl Debugging steps in to help resolve the dilemma ofapplication testing and debugging&emdash;one of the biggest timecommitments in a programmer’s daily routine. What this book will do isrescue you from substandard application testing practices. The bookcommences with several chapters that overview the debugger’s basicfeatures, then covers common debugging scenarios. The concludingportion examines debugger customization, alternative debuggingutilities, and debugging best practices.
About the Author
Richard Foley is a software contractor and Perl expert based out ofMunich, Germany.Other recent clients include UBS Investment Bank andDLR, where he worked on a fascinating project involving testing theInternational Space Station storage area network. Richard previouslyauthored Perl Debugger Pocket Reference. As one of the core Perl developers, Andy’s interests in Perl focus on quality assurance.
Andy is a frequent speaker at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention,YAPC and Perl Monger meetings around the country. He’s spoken on avariety of programming topics including automated testing, Perlsecurity, Web agent automation, project management and effective jobsearching for programmers.
Andy has written or edited a dozen books. Three of his articles onhis popular WWW::Mechanize module are included in O’Reilly’s SpideringHacks. Andy has also written articles for every single Perl magazinepublished in the US (all two of them).He lives with his wife Amy,daughter Quinn and Baxter, the world’s neediest dog.