Blogs Louis Davidson in Blogs Why Design and Test Your Utility Code for Publishing? As the saying goes: do to others as you would have them do to you. When writing code, I would suggest a complimentary saying of... 31 May 2018 6 min read
Oracle Mike Smithers in Oracle utPLSQL 3.0 – How To Have Your Cake and Eat It This article was originally published on mikesmithers.wordpress.com. “You can’t have your cake and eat it!” This seems to be a regular refrain from the EU in... 08 May 2018 27 min read
Blogs John Paul Cook in Blogs Simulating Bad Networks to Test SQL Server Replication SQL Server replication works well on a low latency, high bandwidth network. When actual networks have high latency or limited bandwidth, problems may occur. Such... 02 January 2018 8 min read
Devyani Borade Developer-Tester Relationships In a development team, there are times when the relationships between developers and testers can become strained. How can you turn this potential conflict into... 06 May 2015 11 min read
Jim Holmes Getting Started with UI Test Automation User Interface test automation is a tricky practice, and it's not always obvious what the benefits are. UI tests are an essential part of protecting... 14 November 2014 17 min read
Andrew Hunter Are Unit Tests Overused? Unit Testing has come to dominate the many types of test that are used in developing applications. This has inevitably been at the expense of... 19 October 2012 13 min read
Alex Kuznetsov Developing Low-Maintenance Databases Alex's team of developers are geared to doing rapid development of database applications in a busy corporate setting, yet take considerable time over meticulous database... 12 June 2012 21 min read
Patrick Smacchia On Writing Unit Tests for C# Is it realistic to keep to principles of 'Test-First' and 100% coverage for unit tests when in the heat of developing commercial C# applications? Does... 08 March 2012 14 min read
Dino Esposito A Testing Perspective of Controllers and Orchestrators The neat separation between processing and rendering in ASP.NET MVC guarantees you an application design that is inherently teastable. It doesn't guarantee that your application... 14 February 2012 9 min read
Dave Green Using SQL Test Database Unit Testing with TeamCity Continuous Integration With database applications, the process of test and integration can be frustratingly slow because so much of it is based on manual processes. Everyone seems... 02 February 2012 22 min read
Jonathan Kehayias Great SQL Server Debates: Buffer Cache Hit Ratio One of the more popular counters used by DBAs to monitor the performance, the Buffer Cache Hit Ratio, is useless as a predictor of imminent... 18 January 2012 15 min read
Grant Fritchey Backup Verification: Tips for Database Backup Testing A Backup system is merely part of a recovery system. If your backups can't be used to recover the database, then they're useless. Do you... 06 December 2011 4 min read
Grant Fritchey SQL Server Performance Testing When faced with two viable solutions to a badly compromised database design, one using clustered indexes and the other compound primary keys, Grant Fritchey took... 15 May 2006 2 min read
Neil Davidson Web Services Testing This article aims to give an introduction to the challenges in testing web services, for those who do not have detailed technical knowledge about web... 13 March 2003 13 min read
