1. Database Testing in Azure Cloud
M V Sarath Kumar
Expert Quality Engineer
Allscripts

2. Abstract
Database is a soul and heart of the software application. Behind every user interface, database is always in action whether it is healthcare, finance or retail software applications.
Database Testing in Digital Age is challenging with respect to Availability & Scalability.
Database Testing in Azure Cloud makes testing easy to meet the demands and challenges of new business models, meeting customer expectations with pricing strategies.
This white paper covers more insights into Database testing using IaaS and PaaS services with respect to Availability, Scalability, Automation and Performance in Azure Cloud

3. Challenges
Most of the Performance issues and some of the Functional issues are not replicable in house due to:
Varying System Configurations
Different Load Patterns
Database sizes in customer base
Setting up, production like environments is cost effective and time consuming with respect to high end servers with memory and CPU System configurations.

4. Challenges with Database Testing in Digital Age
Functional
Performance
Not Able to Recreate
Need Client scenarios
Support/Development
Cases
Issues
System configuration issues
UI issues

5. Solution - Azure Cloud
Microsoft Azure Cloud IaaS and PaaS Services provides the environment templates where we can select our required templates and quickly execute our Test scenarios for functional and performance issues
One of the biggest benefits of IaaS is we can compute and scale the storage resources with ease and speed to meet the infrastructure needs of our application.
With Analytics or business intelligence tools, PaaS allow to analyse and mind the data to find insights and patterns to predict the business decisions.

6. (Infrastructure Services) Cloud Scale Data Centers
Solution - Azure Cloud
Functional/Performance Issues
Cases
Support/Tester
Microsoft Azure Cloud
PaaS
(Platform Services)
IaaS
(Infrastructure Services)
Cloud Scale Data Centers

7. Test scripts development - Procedures and Functions
Case Study
Validating Data with the Automation scripts on a different sizes of the databases in different SQL versions with different performance load Patterns
Table 1
Table 2
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Database Objects
Test scripts development - Procedures and Functions
Understand Input\Output parameters of SQL Scripts
Build SQL test suit
Test Execution on different Databases
Pass/ Fail Test Criteria
Automated Circulation of Results

8. Results
Deployed Virtual Machines in time with all SQL Server versions using IaaS.
Conducted Test Execution on different Databases.
Published Automated Circulation of Results of all sizes of the Databases using PaaS services with different Data tiers.
Saved lot of time and cost with respect to environment setup with power shell automated scripts, since the entire execution and metrics were published within one week of time.

9. Key Takeaways Shows DTU consumption of your top queries over time
Helps you to pin point issues by providing additional details for each query
Index Advisor gives new indexes for your existing SQL Database that can improve query performance.
Store the history of plans for each query
Capture the performance of each plan over time
Azure Alerts based on the DTU consumption

10. Reference

11. Author Biography
Specialist in Database Testing & Data Migration testing
12 years of experience in automation, Database testing & Performance testing
Sarath Kumar M V
Expert Quality Engineer, Allscripts

12. Thank You!!!