IV meeting of Trójmiejska Grupa Testerska - testers community in tri-city area, Poland.

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Paweł Gutowski
Test Automation
for Database Solutions
2015-04-09

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Agenda
• Acxiom
• Solution description
• Engine test automation framework
• End 2 End test automation framework
• CI approach
• Questions

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Acxiom
• Who we are?
• What do we do?

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Project Description
• Brief description
• Engine vs configuration
• Why different approaches to automate testing?

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Tools
• Tools & Technologies
• Why use similar set as dev team?
• Need for reporting

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Engine Test Automation
• Isolated scripts
• Golden tables approach

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Engine Test Automation
• Approach pros:
- Easy to automate
- Quick to run
- Catches severe defects early
- Can help Test Driven Development
Approach cons:
- Harder to maintain (hard to add more data,
easy to add new test)
- Harder to get good test documentation

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End 2 End test automation
• End 2 End integration with semi prod files
• Configuration changes are frequent
• Over 770 audits, but how to make them right?

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End 2 End test automation
• Tests are environment independent
(schema etc)
• Test framework is data independent
(where possible)
• Audits SQLs not care about intermediate
processing
• Audits use dynamic SQL

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End 2 End test automation
Approach pros:
- Easy to add more data files
- Easier to maintain
- Regression testing for the whole solution
- Independent from environment
Approach cons:
- Hard to build
- Long to run
- Does not tell what the failure root cause is

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CI environment
• CI advantages
• Nightly vs commit based approach
• How did it work for us?

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