Re: Regression Testing

Hello,

Thank you for replying to my post.

What you say below is obvious, but I need to determine if a tool actually exists. You never know; if someone builds one, others may buy it. I realize that such a tool probably does not exist (at least not outside of Oracle), but my job is to find out if one does exist.

Gary McLane

"G Dahler" <yellow-shark_at_spamex.com> wrote in message news:BTOqc.65461$325.1272117_at_news20.bellglobal.com...
>
> "Gary McLane" <mclan001_at_mc.duke.edu> a écrit dans le message de
> news:c8g5mo$de7$1_at_gargoyle.oit.duke.edu...
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is anyone aware of regression testing tools for the Oracle RDBMS?
> >
> > My understanding is that Oracle does regression testing before releasing
a
> > major upgrade to the RDBMS, but not for patch releases.
> >
> > I am interested in an inexpensive software package that I can use for
> > regression testing Oracle patch releases.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
>
> Regression testing database software must be a HUGE feat, there must be
> thousands of tests to do. Even if you had the tools to do so in your
> enviroment, you would have to know actually which test to perform.
>
> Regression testing is sometimes done at a very detailed level (Eg:
physical
> structure of the written data, etc...)
>
> I presume you would like to be confident that your code will run well
before
> appying a patch to your prod environment ?
>
> In this case, what you have to do is install the patch in a TEST
environment
> (You do it, don't you ?) and test your code there before approving the
move
> in production, that's basic deployment methodology.
>
> If you do that and are very paranoid, you can also wait for others to
"test"
> a new patch before appying it and see what happens to other customers. If
> you don't have time to wait, I dont see where you'll find the time to
> "regression test" oracle either.
>
> And remember, in the oracle user agreement, it is written that oracle is
not
> designed to run a nuclear facility :-)
>
>
>
Received on Wed May 19 2004 - 15:48:17 CDT