July 2011
Intermediate to advanced
516 pages
14h 50m
English
book
Expert PL/SQL Practices for Oracle Developers and DBAs
by John Beresniewicz, Adrian Billington, Martin Büchi, Melanie Caffrey, Ron Crisco, Lewis Cunningham, Dominic Delmolino, Sue Harper, Torben Holm, Connor McDonald, Arup Nanda, Stephan Petit, Michael Rosenblum, Robyn Sands, Riyaj Shamsudeen
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C H A P T E R 5
PL/SQL Unit Testing
Any developer accessing the Oracle Database uses SQL whether running SQL reports and queries developed personally or provided by another developer. While it may not be true to say that every developer runs and uses PL/SQL when working with the Oracle Database, the number is no doubt very high as any procedural access to the Oracle Database is best done using PL/SQL. As a developer, if you create and work with PL/SQL, you should be debugging and testing the PL/SQL to ensure accurate and efficient code.
In this chapter, you’ll look at PL/SQL unit testing: what is meant by unit testing, why it’s important in the development lifecycle, and how to build tests. There are a few tools and utilities ...