[Grok-dev] testing and *rdb*

[Kapil Thangavelu]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Toni Mueller <support at oeko.net> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> while trying to write some tests for my RDB using application, I found
> that I'd like to enforce the specification of the DSN using a TEST_DSN
> environment variable, to prevent the unwitting user (eg. me) from
> inadvertantly erasing their production database. It was easy to enforce
> this, but the side effect is that tests may no longer be run
> unattended, since something that would run eg. all tests for all
> packages contained in a certain directory tree (think of eg. BSD's
> "make build"), would not know how to set up the test database. I also
> can't simply assume that the test database is SQLite, which is far too
> old on my system, but instead have to assume a full PostgreSQL right
> now, but that can't be automagically configured.
>
> What's the recommended way to solve this dilemma, please?
>

i tend to configure the db connections with ... zcml.. and just have a
separate zcml string pointing to a test db for the unit test harness.

hth,

-kapil
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