PL/SQL unit testing with Ruby
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This document discusses unit testing PL/SQL code with Ruby. It introduces the ruby-plsql-spec library, which allows writing unit tests for PL/SQL in Ruby. The benefits of this approach include more compact and readable test syntax compared to traditional PL/SQL testing frameworks. The document provides an example of substring testing and discusses why more developers don't use unit testing. It also lists some typical problems with PL/SQL testing and introduces visual testing tools.
PL/SQL unit testing with Ruby
- 1. PL/SQL Unit Testing with Ruby
- 2. Raimonds Simanovskis github.com/rsim
- 3. What is good code? Test Correct functionality! Test Fast enough performance! Test after Maintainable changes!
- 4. How is it done? try something... dbms_output.put_line(...) it is obvious that there are no bugs :) testers should test, that’s their job
- 5. What are typical problems? “trying” and not testing tests are not repeatable manual verification of results testing is done too late in development
- 6. Types of tests unit tests integration tests programmer’s performance & load tests responsibility exploratory & usability tests
- 7. Test Driven Development Write test Run test Write code Run test Refactoring
- 8. Good unit tests Automatic, run fast Wide code coverage including edge cases Repeatable Independent from execution order Using real and understandable test data
- 9. How to do it when programming in PL/SQL ?
- 10. utPLSQL created by Steven Feuerstein, 1999 based on “xUnit”-style frameworks not maintained anymore :(
- 11. Example Substring from start until end position
- 12. Tests
- 13. Results
- 14. Visual testing tools Quest Code Tester SQL Developer 2.1
- 15. Why used just by few? too large / too verbose test code? hard to read, too much noise? hard to test complex cases? no best practices how to write tests? nobody is using, why should I use?
- 16. ruby-plsql-spec ideal language for writing tests RSpec powerful testing tools with “readable” syntax library for calling ruby-plsql PL/SQL procedures from Ruby
- 17. ruby-plsql-spec Demo
- 18. Benefits compact, readable syntax powerful features also for complex tests best practices from Ruby community based on needs from real projects opensource – “free as in beer” :)
- 19. Links http://blog.rayapps.com/2009/11/27/oracle- plsql-unit-testing-with-ruby/ http://blog.rayapps.com/2010/01/06/ screencasts-of-oracle-plsql-unit-testing-with- ruby/ http://github.com/rsim/ruby-plsql-spec