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AnyDbTest 2.1 released
I am glad to share one database unit testing tool. It is named as AnyDbTest (Official website, http://www.anydbtest.com). After expanding its functionality in previous releases, AnyDbTest 2.1brings a wide-ranging set of improvements.
As one best practice of early testing, unit testing is a popular concept in application development. And in community, there are many unit testing tools for application developers, such as jUnit, NUnit, CppUnit etc.
But the database community has not yet embraced the advantages and strategies of this approach. Most database developers have little or no concept of unit testing and there are few if any tools to support them. (Refer this article from InfoQ). DBA/ DB developers had a long test feedback loop originated from application developers/tests, they were not really benefiting from unit testing.
Why do these situations occur?
Because to great extent, all xUnit tools including DbUnit are some programming frameworks, rather than plug and play test tool. We will have to handle many complicated programming components and APIs. These tools are suitable for application developers, but are not the right choice for DBA and DB developers. DBA and DB developers need one tool which has low learning curve.
On the contrary, AnyDbTest is declarative style testing tool. What we do is to express what we want to test, rather than how to test. We only need to write an Xml test configure file to tell AnyDbTest what we want to test. Rather than painstakingly writing test code for xUnit test framework. So AnyDbTest is the right choice for DBA or DB developers.
AnyDbTest also offers a visual dashboard. Success or failure of test is automatically computed and presented to us via an easy-to-understand red/green light display.
Features specific to AnyDbTest:
•Writing test case with Xml, rather than Java/C++/C#/VB test case code.
•Many kinds of assertion supported, such as StrictEqual, SetEqual, IsSupersetOf, Overlaps and RecordCountEqual etc.
•Allows using Excel spreadsheet/Xml as the source of the data for the tests.
•Supports Sandbox test model, if test will be done in sandbox, all database operations will be rolled back meaning any changes will be undone.
•Unique cross-different-type-database testing, which means target and reference result set can come from two databases, even one is SQL Server, another is Oracle.
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