Did you know that in Code Tester 1.8.5 you can now perform in-line validation of your customization code? For more complex tests, this will save you lots of time and make it easier to build your regression tests.

 

The ultimate objective of Code Tester is easy to state: allow developers to test arbitrarily complex PL/SQL programs without writing any test code....

In case you missed my announcement on the Code Tester community forum, we have now posted a beta version of 1.9.

 

The major focus for 1.9 to date has been to add support for automated testing of object type methods. This beta release offers the first glimpse of this functionality; you should now be able to define tests for constructors, static methods, and member procedures and functions.

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Written by Steven Feuerstein   Code Tester is a relatively young tool (first released for production use in February 2007), but it has matured quickly (hey, at least I think so!) and is packed full of handy features.

 

As with all other tools, however, it can sometimes be hard to find the "jewels," so I thought I would highlight a couple.

 

1. Dynamically generated test cases

 

Rather...

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