Basic Database Testing

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 Check Valid Connection
Connection validation is especially important in real time applications, which must run
with no or minimal downtime. test is performed to verify the database connection is
active/up. In fact, there can be various situations where a connection can be lost
(e.g., because a database is down or there are some network problems). We can test
this with two approaches.
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Using Vendor specific API
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Test-Fail query approach.

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 Check Valid Connection
Action
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Select the Connection string with the required credentials
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Execute the connect Factory Method
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Test the returned value(s) for successful connection.
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If the exception corresponds to a closed connection, try to re-establish a connection
and re-execute a query.
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If the same exception is thrown, then try connecting to the failover database.

Note: Obviously, this business logic with database connection handling.

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 Data Type Validation
Action
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This test is performed to verify that the data type used by the DBA are same
as expected.
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Check the received values with the no of expected values
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If the No of values match then
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Check for the data type with the fields' data type
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If data types match then
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allow the actions like Insert, Update
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Else
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throw exception
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Else
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throw exception

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 Input Verification
Action
This is the process of input data validation. Though it is not totally a part of database
testing, this has to be performed essentially during database testing.
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The input items are tested for validation in the front end
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Check if the Maximum field length is correct
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Check for any junk/special characters in the input
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If any of the above fails
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throw exception

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 Data Integrity
Action
This test is performed when anyone of the data undergoes any of the actions below,
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Insert
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Update
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Delete
After the actions mentioned above, the db should be verified for the changes performed
on related entities such as
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Primary Key
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Foreign key
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and any other Dependant entities
If there is any error/mismatch , then rollback and throw exception

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 Backup & Restore
Action
This test is performed to ensure the backed up data is valid and accurate
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Backup the whole database schema
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try creating another schema
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Import all the data from the backup
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Check the data is accurate and same as the source database schema
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Check the No of tables and table columns are the same
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Check the rows are the same as the source schema
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If any mismatch then throw exception

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