Before you try to try to get your Unix system collecting data from a database that someone else manages, you might want to run some simple tests from a Windows desktop. Yes, I said "Windows".

Don't? Use your production data to create a synthetic representative sample of data you need to test the system, and inject that into your CI process to ensure that databases in lower environments ...

In-Depth Eliminate Database Dependencies in Test-Driven Development How to avoid the end-to-end integration test problem with the Repository pattern. By Benjamin Day 09/01/2009 Get Code Download Many ...

This article will look at configuring integration tests using Spring and DBUnit so that test data is inserted into the database before every test. This article also looks at a utility to export/import ...

Best way to refresh test database with data from production? Maxer Jul 2, 2008 Jump to latest Follow Reply ...