SQL Server Unit Testing in Visual Studio
Unit test stored procedures in Visual Studio using an existing database or new SQL scripts
2020-01-03 (first published: 2017-05-01)
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Unit Testing
Is It Worth Writing Unit Tests?
What's the overhead for writing unit tests? Ed Elliot breaks it down, looking at the ways in which unit tests both take more time and save time.
2015-07-23
8,630 reads
Data Sample Scripter
Generates code for INSERTs as well as generating data form tables for INSERT. Will also find and script all dependencies recursively, present all scripts in dependency order, and generate a reverse-dependency order set of conditional DELETE statements.
2016-06-13 (first published: 2015-06-04)
2,154 reads
2019-03-01 (first published: 2015-03-26)
11,252 reads
Ten Things I Wish I'd Known When I Started Using tSQLt and SQL Test
The tSQLt framework is a great way of writing unit tests in the same language as the one being tested, but there are some 'Gotchas' that can catch you out. Dave Green lists a few tips he wished he'd read beforehand.
2012-09-27
2,973 reads
Unit Testing Myths and Practices
We all understand the value of Unit Testing, but how come so few organisations maintain unit tests for their in-house applications? We can no longer pretend that unit testing is a universal panacea for ensuring less-buggy applications. Instead, we should be prepared to actively justify the use of unit tests, and be more savvy about where in the development cycle the unit test resources should be most effectively used.
2012-02-21
3,133 reads
Automating tests for T-SQL code
Learn how you can write test automations for T-SQL code using T.S.T. New author Ladislau Molnar has a great project on Codeplex that can help improve your testing.
2009-06-30
10,950 reads
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