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On Friday I was introduced to an enormous blob of Perl code, entirely functional, completely undocumented, devoid of unit tests, and with data hard coded into it.

Then these nodes may be of interest:

Becoming familiar with a too-big codebase?
Analyzing large Perl code base.
What is the best way to add tests to existing code?

In reply to Re^3: Unit Testing in Perl by eyepopslikeamosquito
in thread Unit Testing in Perl by skyknight

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