Richard Foley is a software contractor and Perl expert based out of Munich, Germany. He developed an automated software testing application for the Amadeus flight booking system. Other recent clients include UBS Investment Bank and DLR, where he worked on a fascinating project involving testing the International Space Station storage area network. Richard previously authored Perl Debugger Pocket Reference. Andy Lester has been a professional programmer for 19 years and Perl evangelist for a decade. As one of the core Perl developers, Andy's interests in Perl focus on quality assurance. He maintains eight testing modules on the CPAN, as well as the Perl QA Web site.

Andy is a frequent speaker at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, YAPC and Perl Monger meetings around the country. He's spoken on a variety of programming topics including automated testing, Perl security, Web agent automation, project management and effective job searching for programmers.

Andy has written or edited a dozen books. Three of his articles on his popular WWW::Mechanize module are included in O'Reilly's Spidering Hacks. Andy has also written articles for every single Perl magazine published in the US (all two of them).

By day, Andy manages a crack squad of Web programmers for Follett Library Resources in McHenry, Illinois. He lives with his wife Amy, daughter Quinn and Baxter, the world's neediest dog.