Re: Existing books on debugging ?

On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 08:59  am, Gabor Szabo wrote:
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> Of course we can all point at "Perl Debugged" but I don't know
> any other book talking about debugging.

I'm not aware of any other Perl debugging books. One I would *not*  
recommend is "Debugging Perl" - which really isn't very good at all.

I've come across people getting it mixed up with Perl Debugged (which  
is quite nice) so I thought it worth mentioning.

> What books out there are of use for those wanting to learn debugging?
> They don't necessarily have to be specificly about *Perl*.
> Is there a way to learn debugging other than learning the capabilities
> of a debugger ?

I'd say that there is more to debugging than using a debugger. The  
majority of my debugging techniques are now oriented around tests so I  
would recommend the test books listed on perl-qa :-) They're mostly on  
the Wiki now too at  
<http://mungus.schwern.org/~schwern/cgi-bin/perl-qa- 
wiki.cgi?TestingBooks>.

Adrian