PL/SQL Unit Testing Can Be Fun!
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This document discusses unit testing PL/SQL code. It provides an example of a substring function and corresponding unit tests written using the ruby-plsql-spec library. Key benefits of the library include compact, readable syntax for writing tests, powerful features for complex test cases based on Ruby best practices, and being open-source. The document recommends it as an ideal language for PL/SQL testing and provides links for more information.
PL/SQL Unit Testing Can Be Fun!
- 1. PL/SQL Unit Testing Can Be Fun! with a little help from 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 & integration responsibility tests exploratory & usability tests
- 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. created by Steven Feuerstein, 1999 based on “xUnit”-style frameworks not maintained anymore :(
- 11. Example substring from start until end position CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION betwnstr ( string_in IN VARCHAR2, start_in IN INTEGER, end_in IN INTEGER ) RETURN VARCHAR2 IS l_start PLS_INTEGER := start_in; BEGIN IF l_start = 0 THEN l_start := 1; END IF; RETURN (SUBSTR (string_in, l_start, end_in - l_start + 1)); END;
- 12. Tests CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE ut_betwnstr AS CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE BODY ut_betwnstr AS PROCEDURE ut_setup; PROCEDURE ut_setup AS PROCEDURE ut_teardown; BEGIN NULL; PROCEDURE ut_normal_usage; END ut_setup; PROCEDURE ut_first_index_null; PROCEDURE ut_teardown AS END ut_betwnstr; BEGIN NULL; END ut_teardown; PROCEDURE ut_normal_usage AS BEGIN utassert.eq('Normal usage', betwnstr('abcdefg', 2, 5), 'bcde'); END ut_normal_usage; PROCEDURE ut_first_index_null AS BEGIN utassert.isnull('First index is null', betwnstr('abcdefg', NULL, 5)); END ut_first_index_null; END ut_betwnstr;
- 13. Results exec utplsql.test('betwnstr', recompile_in => FALSE); . > SSSS U U CCC CCC EEEEEEE SSSS SSSS > S S U U C C C C E S S S S > S U U C C C C E S S > S U U C C E S S > SSSS U U C C EEEE SSSS SSSS > S U U C C E S S > S U U C C C C E S S > S S U U C C C C E S S S S > SSSS UUU CCC CCC EEEEEEE SSSS SSSS . SUCCESS: "betwnstr" . > Individual Test Case Results: > SUCCESS - betwnstr.UT_FIRST_INDEX_NULL: ISNULL "First index is null" Expected "" and got "" > SUCCESS - betwnstr.UT_NORMAL_USAGE: EQ "Normal usage" Expected "cde" and got "cde" > > > Errors recorded in utPLSQL Error Log: > > NONE FOUND
- 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 powerful testing tools RSpec with “readable” syntax library for calling ruby-plsql PL/SQL procedures from Ruby
- 17. Demo
- 18. ruby-plsql gem plsql.connect! "hr","hr","xe" plsql.test_uppercase('xxx') # => "XXX" plsql.test_uppercase(:p_string => 'xxx') # => "XXX" plsql.test_copy("abc", nil, nil) # => { :p_to => "abc", # :p_to_double => "abcabc" } plsql.test_copy(:p_from => "abc", :p_to => nil, :p_to_double => nil) # => { :p_to => "abc", # :p_to_double => "abcabc" } plsql.hr.test_uppercase('xxx') # => "XXX" plsql.test_package.test_uppercase('xxx') # => 'XXX' plsql.hr.test_package.test_uppercase('xxx') # => 'XXX' plsql.logoff
- 19. Benefits Compact, readable syntax Powerful features also for complex tests Best practices from Ruby community Based on needs from real projects Open-source – “free as in beer” :)
- 20. More information 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
- 21. JRuby meetup Tuesday, September 21 5:30 - 7:00 Networking + beer + food 7:00 - 8:00 Lightning talks @ Engine Yard 500 3rd Street, Suite 510