SQL Developer: Unit Testing

The SQL Developer unit testing feature provides a framework for testing PL/SQL objects, such as functions and procedures, and monitoring the results of such objects over time. You create tests, and for each you provide information about what is to be tested and what result is expected. The SQL Developer implementation of unit testing is modeled on the classic and well known xUnit collection of unit test frameworks.

The unit testing feature is part of the support within the SQL Developer family of products for major parts of the life cycle of database system development, from design (provided by Data Modeler) to development to testing.

This topic contains the following topics:

• Overview of Unit Testing

• SQL Developer User Interface for Unit Testing

• Unit Test Repository

• Editing and Running a Unit Test

• Using a Dynamic Value Query to Create a Unit Test

• Using Lookups to Simplify Unit Test Creation

• Using Variable Substitution in Validation Actions

• Unit Test Library

• Unit Test Reports

• Exporting and Importing Unit Test Objects

• Command-Line Interface for Unit Testing

• Unit Testing Best Practices

• Example of Unit Testing (Tutorial)