DbUnitTester: A Java repository from ivangeorgiev

DbUnitTester Database Unit Test Execution Tool
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Copyright (c) 2012 Ivan Georgiev.

All rights reserved.

Prerequisites
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Bul7Lib - available as separate jar download.

Getting Started
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1. Installation

You need to download following packages:

DbUnitTester.jar
lib/Bul7Lib.jar

Make sure you place them in the directories denoted above.

2. Prepare Test Definition.

The definition for tests is stored in json file.

In this exacmple we are creating unit tests for database procedure that loads
the PERSONS table.

---------------- persons.ut.json -------------------

{
	"executor": {
		"type": "SqlDump",
	},
	"testcase": {
		name: "MyETLStaging",
		"testcases": [
			{
				name: "PersonsStaging",
				"sources": [
					{ "name": "expect", "source": "fix_persons"},
					{ "name": "actual", "source": "persons", "filter": "person_id = 32" }
				],
				"validators": [
					{
						"name": "CountMatch",
						"type": "CountMatch",
						"expect": "expect",
						"actual": "actual"
					},
					{
						"name": "DataMatch",
						"type": "ColByColDataMatch",
						"expect": "expect",
						"actual": "actual",
						"columns": "person_id,first_name,last_name",
					}
				]
			}
		]
	}
}

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4. Dump interpreted definition

Modify the persons.ut.java file. Modify the "executor" definition:

   "type": "Dump"

Execute following command:
   java -jar DbUnitTester.jar persons.ut.json

This will display the test definiton loaded by the tester.
   
This technique is useful for debugging your definition.

3. Run the test

Make sure you set the "executor" type back to the value above:

   "type": "SqlDump"

Execute the following command:

java -jar DbUnitTester.jar persons.ut.json > MyETLStaging_UnitTest.sql

This will produce a file containing SQL statments that carry out the unit test 
cases described in your file.

Extending DbUnitTester
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1. Create custom executor. 

We showed you how you can use different executors to generate SQL and dump the 
test definition.

You can create custom Java class that implements the extends the Executor class.
Name it xxxExecutor.

For example. Dump executor class is named DumpExecutor. Sql generator class is 
named SqlDumpExecutor.

2. Create custom validators
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