On Aug 31, 2009, at 10:45 AM, Phil Longstaff wrote:
I've started to write a DBI backend test. Basically, it will create
a session with a set of data including (hopefully) all test cases.
It will then save that to a db, load it into another session, then
compare the data in the two sessions.
There's no problem doing this for sqlite3 (just use /tmp/XXXXX).
However, since there are differences for mysql and pgsql, I'd like
to perform the test for all 3 databases. Any ideas on how "make
check" could/should get urls for a mysql and pgsql database server
to use (or determine that there is no server available, so skip that
check)? Argument to "make check" i.e. "make check -DMYSQL_URL=..."?
Yeah, don't. That is, don't actually talk to the real databases, just
write a trivial pretend database (they're often called mocks) with the
same function signatures and header names and so on so that you can
build your test program with it instead of with pgsql or mysql.
(Trivial so that the mock database doesn't need to be tested itself.)
Ideally you should do the same for sqlite.
You can even provide accessors so that the test case can ask the mock
database what it got, or preload it with data for the function being
tested to retrieve.
You'll wind up with much better test cases. You will have to maintain
the mock to keep it compliant with the database its pretending to be,
but when it changes you'll wind up having to change the function
you're testing anyway. This, by the way, is a really good reason *not*
to use development builds of dependencies. (Not that I think you need
one...)
Regards,
John Ralls
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