PSP, XP, TDD and other methodologies for solitary programmers

Ng Pheng Siong ngps at netmemetic.com
Thu Jan 2 19:46:02 EST 2003


According to Skip Montanaro  <skip at pobox.com>:
>     Brad> ... as I said in my previous post, I'm looking for test patterns
>     Brad> suiteable for database backed "objects".
> 
> The largest problem I see to testing SQL database store/retrieve is that to
> be confident in your test results you would have to actually execute SQL,

Do you not trust your SQL engine to DTRT?

If you want to test that your _application_ is working fine wrt database
access, use mock objects to simulate the db engine.


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