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8. Testing

Rob Reid1  
(1)
Liss, Hampshire, UK
 

In this chapter, we’ll explore some techniques for testing your database, whether it’s on your machine, in your CI/CD pipeline, ready for production, or already in production.

It’s easy to overlook the database during application testing. The test areas to neglect during development time are numerous. I’ll share a real-world example with you to highlight the importance of having a test strategy when a database is involved.

While developing my first database-backed application , I created a dataset with all row combinations I thought my application ...

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