I'm using a slightly altered version of t-sqlunit. It is native t-sql and uses naming convenstions for test suite naming grouping and execution, setup and...
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Mark Baekdal
mark_baekdal
Mar 25, 2009 5:44 am
You could take a look at DB Ghost - www.dbghost.com - which has a build feature, good for code verification. regards, Mark Baekdal http://www.dbghost.com...
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thatguyduncan
Mar 25, 2009 5:21 am
Hi all: Curious to know what unit-testing framework(s) you use on SQL Server, and how. I am tasked with setting our corporate standard, and I'd like to get an...
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barry.sunshine
Mar 16, 2009 4:19 am
All, I have a client that wants to utilize UML in their General Business Data Model development effort. What is the status of the UML standard as it relates to...
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Scott Ambler
scottwambler
Mar 10, 2009 3:30 pm
Yesterday at Software Development (www.sdexpo.com) Bob Martin gave a really good keynote exploring the history of the Agile movement. During the talk he...
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Pramod Sadalage
psadalage
Feb 25, 2009 3:37 am
... From: filip_neven <filip_neven@...> Date: Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:20 AM Subject: [citcon] dbmaintain released To: citcon@yahoogroups.com Dbmaintain...
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John Edward
jeedward
Feb 5, 2009 11:42 am
Draft paper submission deadline extended: SETP-09 The deadline for draft paper submission at the 2009 International Conference on Software Engineering...
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stephanie_fender
stephanie_fe...
Feb 5, 2009 11:42 am
Implementing agile in your organization? Tackling challenges on your latest agile project? Build an agile training program from our new courses including: ...
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Clifford Heath
clifford_heath4
Jan 28, 2009 6:05 pm
Who are the moderators of this group? They need to remove this spam-event, or it's going to happen every day. Clifford Heath....
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miketelson93
Jan 20, 2009 4:29 pm
Test metrics accomplish in analyzing the current level of maturity in testing and give a projection on how to go about testing activities by allowing us to set...
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Jens Schauder
jens_schauder
Jan 18, 2009 9:55 am
Hi Tim, I absolutely agree that a tool for populating the database is pretty easy to do. Definetly easier than a tool implementing the approach I described. ...
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Tim B
boettt
Jan 17, 2009 10:17 pm
We had a utility that would populate all database tables, being respectful of FKs. We could control the behavior by specifying tables to be excluded and...
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Jens Schauder
jens_schauder
Jan 17, 2009 6:05 pm
Hi, this is a great link. I have used a similiar approach in the past as well. But I hit the exact problems Martin Fowler describes in the bliki: "In...
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Pramod Sadalage
psadalage
Jan 16, 2009 5:56 pm
We have used the Object Mother pattern very effectively to provide a service to create all the objects and its data. ...
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Jens Schauder
jens_schauder
Jan 16, 2009 5:52 am
Hi everybody, I think the agile approach on database development suffers from two stumbling blocks: - databases are persistent. There fore it is not easy to...
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Tim B
boettt
Jan 15, 2009 10:25 pm
... I've just come ff a project where we had more than 8,000 unit tests. The database had two schemas with total of about 450 tables. Each of the developers...
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Curt Sampson
cjstokyo
Jan 7, 2009 10:17 pm
... I mean a large fraction of a second. I don't do large schemas; I'm generally working in the area of 20-200 tables. But even that, if you're going to run...
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Max Guernsey, III
maxguernseyiii
Jan 7, 2009 6:31 pm
"For each individual test to do this is nice in theory, but in practice it tends to be extremely slow." That certainly does not corroborate with my experience....
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Gabriel Tanase
datamodeller
Jan 7, 2009 6:01 pm
Hello, I would like to second Clifford's recommendation, for several reasons: 1. ETL is usually the biggest part of the development effort in an DW project. It...
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Curt Sampson
cjstokyo
Jan 7, 2009 6:01 pm
... For each individual test to do this is nice in theory, but in practice it tends to be extremely slow. In QAM (http://www.starling-software.com/en/qam.html)...
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Clifford Heath
clifford_heath4
Jan 6, 2009 6:56 pm
Marty, I have a friend who's doing the same thing - coaching a DW team to agile. AIUI, his efforts are being spent, in the main, figuring out how to TDD test...
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Max Guernsey, III
maxguernseyiii
Jan 6, 2009 6:56 pm
Should not the tests be responsible for creating their own database instances? Max Guernsey, III Managing Member, Hexagon Software <http://www.hexsw.com/>...
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psadalage
Jan 6, 2009 5:53 pm
Hello Gabriel, I think there is confusion between Production environment and Unit testing/continuous integration environment. Mostly in all the projects I have...
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Gabriel Tanase
datamodeller
Jan 6, 2009 5:48 pm
Nice little article, however I can't resist a small complaint. It doesn't make any reference to and makes no explicit provision for multi-user access issues,...
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Tim Tuxworth
timtuxworth
Jan 6, 2009 1:06 am
Its really interesting that some of the best practice papers in the DW/BI space are recommending "novel" approaches to developing DW/BI solutions such as short...
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Scott Ambler
scottwambler
Jan 5, 2009 11:18 pm
I've got a 2-article series about a RUP-based approach to DW at http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/nov06/ambler/index.html and...
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Bland, Marty
marty.bland
Jan 5, 2009 8:25 pm
Agile Databases, I am an agile coach beginning to move a data warehouse to agile. Can you provide example user stories for a data warehouse team? The team is...
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ginitram
Jan 5, 2009 6:49 pm
The Methods & Tools newsletter has released in its html archive section the article "Behavior Driven Database Development" by Pramod Sadalage. This article...
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alizathomson
Jan 2, 2009 6:12 pm
How to plan to cover the product so as to develop an adequate assessment of quality? Valuable material on test strategy available on following URL: ...
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Curt Sampson
cjstokyo
Jan 2, 2009 6:12 pm
... I think that's a slight misinterpretation. We--or at least I--are assuming that we can become the pinnacle of knowledge (well, more like a local maximum)...
