It seems that many companies don't have the luxury of working with a variety of hardware configurations to test their architecture before deploying their applications. Some of the issues involve time and some involve tools. Steve Jones has an idea that could help with the latter today.  Read more...

It seems that many companies don't have the luxury of working with a variety of hardware configurations to test their architecture before deploying their applications. Some of the issues involve time and some involve tools. Steve Jones has an idea that could help with the latter today.  Read more...

It seems that many companies don't have the luxury of working with a variety of hardware configurations to test their architecture before deploying their applications. Some of the issues involve time and some involve tools. Steve Jones has an idea that could help with the latter today.  Read more...

It seems that many companies don't have the luxury of working with a variety of hardware configurations to test their architecture before deploying their applications. Some of the issues involve time and some involve tools. Steve Jones has an idea that could help with the latter today.  Read more...

Testing our applications is important, but at what level do we need to test? Steve Jones talks about unit testing today, and wonders if this is prevalent for SQL Server developers.  Read more...

In this article sponsored by Red Gate, read about a beta tester's experience with new versions of SQL tools.  Read more...

Andy Leonard continues on with his series on TDD. This time he performs some refactoring on his solution.  Read more...

Developing a database can be an trying experience, and it's ways good to see how someone else builds a design. In this new article, MVP Andy Leonard shows us how to build a database using test-driven development for a weather database.  Read more...

This article talks about an easy way to add hundreds of unit tests in your solution using SQL Load Test from Codeplex.  Read more...

Testing software is important, and the use of state models can help. This week Steve Jones talks about a new book that exposes software testing at Microsoft.  Read more...

Testing software is important, and the use of state models can help. This week Steve Jones talks about a new book that exposes software testing at Microsoft.  Read more...

Testing software is important, and the use of state models can help. This week Steve Jones talks about a new book that exposes software testing at Microsoft.  Read more...

Testing software is important, and the use of state models can help. This week Steve Jones talks about a new book that exposes software testing at Microsoft.  Read more...

Testing DB code is not fun or easy so it usually gets ignored. But now there’s a super-easy way to test using DBFit.  Read more...

This technical article provides an overview of how to produce specific levels of index fragmentation. Useful for creating test plans.  Read more...

A description of the things to avoid and do when involved with a beta test.  Read more...

This is the final part of Alex's ground-breaking series on unit-testing Transact-SQL code. Here, he shows how you can test the way that your application handles database-related errors such as constraint-violations or deadlocks. With a properly-constructed test-harness you can ensure that the end-user need never see the apparent gobbledegook of database system error messages, and that they are properly and robustly handled by the application.  Read more...

Often developers are tasked with not only developing functional code, but also with ensuring that the code they develop scales well and performs in the application environment.  Read more...

The need to test a program that accesses and manipulates a back-end SQL Server® database is very common. In many such cases, the application interacts with the back-end data through the use of SQL stored procedures. In this type of scenario, you can think of the stored procedures as auxiliary methods of the system under test; and they must therefore be tested just like any other module in the system.  Read more...

This article from MSDN discusses the benefits of TDD and bringing unit testing to your database development.  Read more...