PTS 2019: Testing PAUSE by Hand (5/5)
Writing tests is great, but sometimes you’re not sure what you’re looking for. Maybe you don’t know what will happen at all if you try something new. Maybe you know it fails, but not how or where. This is the kind of thing where normally I’d fire up the perl debugger. The debugger is too often ignored by programmers who could solve problems a lot faster by using it. I love adding print statements as much as the next person – maybe more – but the debugger is a specialized tool that is worth bringing out now and then.