1: Database Testing - DB Updates Database

Testing mainly concentrates on following:

• Data Integrity test
• Stored Procedure test
• Type test
• Data Size Test
• Event Driven Item Test
• Input Item Verification

2: Data Integrity Test

Actions: Updating / Deletion / Fresh Insertion/Display of new Screen /Time bound actions.
Once a value undergoes any of the above actions (update / Delete / Insert) the database should be verified for the
changes performed on related entities i.e., Foreign key / Primary key and all dependent

3: Store Procedure Test

Actions: Updating / Deletion / Fresh Insertion/Display of new Screen /Time bound actions.
Every Stored Procedure is to be tested separately for its functionality ( Based on Separate functions it performs )
Stored procedures need to be broken up into Action Items based on Functions and then Each action item needs to be
tested separately as the results of Complete Stored procedure. Execution may differ from the results obtained by partial
execution. This also helps in validating the modularity of Code (White Box).

4:Store Procedure Test

In the case of stored procedures, to come up with test cases one can consider the following:
• The no. of arguments being passed
• The data type of each of the arguments being passed
• The order of the arguments being passed
• The return value
• The data type of the return value
Based on these you can write both positive and negative test cases, consider a simple example of a stored procedure
taking 2 numbers as input and returning the sum of the 2 numbers

5: Type Test
Actions: Updating / Deletion / Fresh Insertion/Display of new Screen /Time bound actions.
This test is performed to verify that the data types used by theDBA are same as expected by agreed upon by the
developer. Often the data types chosen by developers are not the same as suggested by database administrators ,
especially for the fields like
• Phone (Num./Text)
• Description (Large Text)
These kinds of mismatches often do not effect the functionality and normal execution of code, but prove to be very
Costly during Updating of product or during addition of features to the existing modules

6: Data Size Test

Actions: Updating / Deletion / Fresh Insertion/Display of new Screen /Time bound actions.
Performance of Data size testing is often done only at the front end during the unit testing , but it is essential to perform
it at back end separately . This ensures smooth transition while appending functionality and integrating modules as
during these Phases , the data is passed to the system with direct user interaction and bypassing front end validation.

7: Environment Driven Item Test

Actions: Updating / Deletion / Fresh Insertion/Display of new Screen /Time bound actions
Event Driven Actions (Triggers or Scheduled Actions) needs to be tested on two parameters.
• Events that trigger these actions: Here QA needs to check the events on which any of the trigger can get
fired/executed . This testing can be done with the help of DBA also .
• Actions performed by the above stated events. Here the contents of such stored procedures or scheduled
actions are verified for the functionality .

8: Input Item Verification

Actions: Updating / Deletion / Fresh Insertion/Display of new Screen /Time bound actions.
This is the process of verification of the input items (Though this is not totally a part of database testing , but this has to
be performed essentially during database testing of the Web based applications.
Often it is seen that the input items (Text Box / RTB / Combination Box / Active-X controls) are tested for validation only
at front end (Screen testing) but these are again to be tested with junk Character values to confirm that they do not push
in such characters which the databases Often misrepresent or Replace with other characters (this testing can partially
be performed during Unit testing also by the developer.