Gojko Adzic » databases

DbFit 1.1 released: DB2 and Derby support and native queries

gojko — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:13:59 +0000

DbFit 1.1 is now available for download from SourceForge. Here are the most important changes:

Major updates

DB2 supported in .net and java
Initial, incomplete Derby (no stored procs) and Sql Server support for Java (not all datatypes)
classes more open to 3rd party extending/overriding
option to parse native queries (no symbol binding and parsing in dbfit, execute the directly against the database)
merged with fitnessedotnet release 1.7.1
merged with fitnesse (java) release 20080812

Minor updates

image and xml types now supported in sql server (as binary and string) in .NET
IDbEnvironment now exposes CurrentConnection and CurrentTransaction as public properties in .NET
pls_integer support for oracle/java
int unsigned support for mysql

Bugfixes

sql server 2005 scale/precision set correctly for db parameters
bigint and smallint type mapping corrected in sql server when used for id retrieval
connection strings with = in properties files
CompareStoredQueries changing the second argument
db parameter accessor sorting bug fixed

Video: Effective Database Test Driven Development @ Skills Matter

gojko — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:04:00 +0000

Here’s the video from my Effective Database Test Driven Development talk at Skills Matter.
You can download the links and slides from here.

Links and slides from the “Effective Test Driven Database Development” talk at SkillsMatter

gojko — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:17:14 +0000

As always, it was a real pleasure to talk at Skills Matter yesterday. Thanks to everyone who attended the talk. There was quite an interest in this talk, and we might do a re-run for the people who could not make it this time. If you’d like to attend a re-run of the talk soon, drop an e-mail to the organisers and I’ll be happy to do it if there is enough interest.

Here are the slides from the talk. The video should be online at skillsmatter.com soon as well (subscribe to the RSS feed to get notified about that).

These are the links that I mentioned in the talk:

Spring/Hibernate rollback example
DbFit project pages on FitNesse.info

You might also be interested in checking out Scott Ambler’s agiledata.org site.

DBFit at Agile 2008

gojko — Wed, 14 May 2008 09:26:07 +0000

It’s a great pleasure to announce that Marisa Seal and I will jointly be presenting a session on Effective Test Driven Database Development at Agile 2008 in Toronto. Our session is scheduled for the afternoon on August 7th.

We’ll talk about the reasons why TDD is not as common in the database world as it is in Object languages, and present solutions and best practices for test-driven database development. We look at database testing from two aspects: unit-testing in the database (stored procedures, views) and integration testing from the OO service/web layer down to the database. We’ll also talk about DbFit and how that tool helps us build better database applications and integrate better with the databases.

For an early preview of the talk, come to Skills Matter in London on June 26th. I’ll be doing one of those free evening talks focused on a lot of the same topics as the Agile2008 talk.

DbFit 1.0: support for in/out parameters, blank-padded strings and querying stored results

gojko — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:38:49 +0000

I am pleased to finally announce version 1.0 of DbFit. DbFit is an extension to FIT/FitNesse that makes test-driven database development easy. Version 1.0 (2008-03-10) is a major cleanup release, finally bringing proper documentation for the library as well. Grab it from SourceForge.

Major updates

1. Support for in/out parameters in stored procedures.
2. Support for querying stored results
3. Support for SQL Server 2000 in .NET. Not as complete as Sql Server 2005, but should work in most cases.
4. Support for testing blank-padded fixed length CHAR types.
5. .NET version now compiled with FitNesse.NET 1.5
6. Proper documentation — finally. The documentation is available as PDF and FitNesse (included in the dbfit-complete package) and also online at FitNesse.Info.

Minor updates

1. Oracle date used as Timestamp to allow V8 compatibility switch to work
2. Stored procedure params no longer have to be listed in the same order as in db
3. GUID handler now just redirecting to standard GUID handler in .NET
4. OrderedQuery and StoreParameter fixtures for standalone mode
5. bugfix for transactions not getting rolled back in Java after tests in flow mode
6. bugfix for ntext and text field sizes in sql server
7. bugfix for fail[null] NullPointerException in Java
8. workaround for fail[null] bug in fitnesse.net 1.5
9. Acceptance tests now reorganised better.

Many thanks to Marisa Seal for her help with the documentation and Oscar Centeno for his help with Sql Server 2000 implementation.