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• Database unit testing is now available for SSDT

  Good news was announced yesterday for those that are using SSDT and want to write unit tests, unit testing functionality is now available. The announcement was made on the SSDT team blog in post Available Today: SSDT—December 2012 . Here are a few thoughts Read More... Posted Friday, December 14, 2012 1:47 PM by jamiet | 4 Comments Filed under: SSDT, unit testing

• Thoughts on Test Driven Database Development

  Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a software development practise that has been around for a few years. Wikipedia describes it as: Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development process that relies on the repetition of a very short development Read More... Posted Thursday, January 26, 2012 9:30 AM by jamiet | 15 Comments Filed under: agile, Datadude, DBPro, TDD, Test-Driven Development, unit testing

• Enforcing naming conventions using database unit testing

  My naming convention obsession Anyone that has ever worked with me will tell you that I am a stickler for naming conventions. I have a somewhat obsessive reputation for it; I can’t help it – I seem to have a deep seated uncontrollable desire to ensure Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 06, 2010 12:42 AM by jamiet | 6 Comments Filed under: Datadude, naming conventions, sql server, unit testing

• Experiences from writing sp_CascadingDataViewer – DB unit testing and code distribution

  Its now been a month since I introduced sp_CascadingDataViewer and I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about a couple of my experiences while writing it.   SQL Server needs packages Version 1 of sp_CascadingDataViewer is an 899 line stored procedure Read More... Posted Saturday, September 18, 2010 6:41 PM by jamiet | 3 Comments Filed under: Datadude, sql server, unit testing, Visual Studio 2010

• Microsoft publish Visual Studio 2010 Database Project Guidance

  Three days ago I wrote a blog post entitled Setting up database unit testing as part of a Continuous Integration build process [VS2010 DB Tools - Datadude] which goes through some of the intracasies of using Visual Studio 2010 Database projects (aka datadude Read More... Posted Monday, August 23, 2010 1:33 PM by jamiet | 1 Comments Filed under: Datadude, sql server, unit testing, Visual Studio 2010

• Setting up database unit testing as part of a Continuous Integration build process [VS2010 DB Tools - Datadude]

  [This blog post assumes a familiarity with the terms Continuous Integration (CI), MSBuild & MSTest. If you don’t have a good appreciation of those terms then this blog post probably isn’t for you anyway so don’t worry about it!] Over the past few Read More... Posted Friday, August 20, 2010 8:41 PM by jamiet | 18 Comments Filed under: Continuous Integration, Datadude, msbuild, mstest, sql server, unit testing, Visual Studio 2010