1. [Automated] TDD with SQL Server using nUnit
Daniel de Sousa
SQL Saturday #464, Melbourne
20th February 2016

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4. Who am I?
BI Architect/Developer/Consultant/Troubleshooter for consulting company in Health
Working with SQL Server since 2001
Working in the Health industry since 2009
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March 2015

5. Validation 5 million rows here and 5 million rows there?
How do you validate your solutions now?
SRC = STG = DEST

6. Requirements nUnit (http://nunit.org)
ORAYLIS BI.Quality (
MSBuild (Installed together with .NET Framework)
MSBuildCommunityTasks (

7. nUnit NUnit is a unit-testing framework for all .Net languages.
This is where the coding happens.
Installation to C:\Program Files\nUnit X.X.X

8. ORAYLIS BI.Quality
“BI.Quality” project is a test framework that is specifically designed to connects both worlds, BI and testing(Nunit).
Installs to C:\Program Files (x86)\ORAYLIS(it does not confirm the installation at the end)
Structure:
Bin
Connections
Lib
Queries
Reports

9. MSBuild Part of .NET Framework
Will be used for the automation of tests
Path C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\<version> needs to be added to the PATH environment variable
MSBuildCommunityTasks: is used to make special tasks available, e.g. for NUnit or XSL. These are used during report generation.

10. ORAYLIS BI.Quality - Bin
Contains “BI.Quality.proj” project file which contains the settings and properties for the automation of the process.
First step is to make sure the nUnit folder is correct:

11. ORAYLIS BI.Quality - Connections
Contains all the connections that will be used in the project(e.g Sources, Datawarehouse(destinations), Cubes, etc) in XML format.
SQL Relational
MDX

12. ORAYLIS BI.Quality - Lib
Contains the libraries, config files and test results(when ran manually)

13. ORAYLIS BI.Quality - Queries
This folder contains the tests to be run
XML(test)
Sql(support)
Any additional file(e.g csv, xml, etc)
Recommended to group in sub-folders to make it understandable and organised.
Can have multiple tests in one folder

14. ORAYLIS BI.Quality - Query Example
Table
Connection
Name
Query
compares the number of rows of a Table with a given target
compares two tables

15. ORAYLIS BI.Quality - Create/Read CSV
Connection
Name
Table
Query
Create CSV
Read CSV
Number of
expected rows
Compare
tables

16. Demo

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