Perl testing info links *[X]* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/502644/how-can-i-do-unit-testing-in-perl q. I'd add my vote to picking up Test::More before going any further in Perl testing. The Perl testing community is fairly well united around the Test Anything Protocol, and you'll want to play around with Test::More to understand how it works and how tools like prove and Test::Harness::Archive can help automate and distribute testing. If you want to just "jump right in", I think Test::Class provides xTest facilities with a TAP backend. I haven't used it at all (I'm a Test::More person myself), but it's very highly rated. q.. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/499967/how-do-i-determine-the-longest-similar-portion-of-several-strings/500518#500518 *[X]* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/533553/perl-build-unit-testing-code-coverage-a-complete-working-example