Course Content
Database concepts primer
- What is a Database Application?
- Testing the Application vs. Testing the DBMS
- Back-end vs. Front End Testing
- QA
- ing Data- Who is responsible?
- What should we test in the Database
- Knowledge required for the Database Tester
- Database Testing Phases
- Database Testing Methodologies
- Structural Database Testing
- Functional Database Testing
Basic SQL (Structured Query Language)
- SQL Coding Standards -- what you need to know
- SQL Basics: Select, Insert, Update and Delete
- Using the Select Statement to Test data
- Using the Insert Statement to generate Test data
- Testing for application accuracy using the Update and Delete statements
- Testing for basic data integrity using Constraints
Testing with SQL
- Joining tables
- Useful SQL Queries for Data Verification
- How Concurrency Issues affect data accuracy
- Database objects:
- Views
- Indexes
- Stored procedures
- Triggers
- User-Defined Functions
- Testing Stored procedures using SQL
- Testing Triggers and functions
- Performance Testing using SQL
- Additional Areas to Test
- Uncovering corrupt data bugs with SQL
Using SQL in Scripting Languages
- Structural Database Testing using TOAD Tool
- Database schema tests
- Databases and devices
- Tables, columns, column types, defaults, and rules
- Keys and indexes
- Stored procedure tests
- Individual procedure tests
- Integration tests of procedures
- Trigger tests
- Testing Update triggers
- Testing Insert triggers
- Testing Delete triggers
- Functional Database Testing Using QTP
- Dividing back end based on functionality
- Checking data integrity and consistency
- Test back end via front end
- Login and user security
- Stress Testing
- Catching common Database application hacks:
- Test cases protecting against SQL Injection and other common hacks
