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Learning PostgreSQL 11

You're reading from   Learning PostgreSQL 11 A beginner's guide to building high-performance PostgreSQL database solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789535464
Length 556 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Andrey Volkov Andrey Volkov
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Christopher Travers Christopher Travers
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

1. Relational Databases FREE CHAPTER 2. PostgreSQL in Action 3. PostgreSQL Basic Building Blocks 4. PostgreSQL Advanced Building Blocks 5. SQL Language 6. Advanced Query Writing 7. Server-Side Programming with PL/pgSQL 8. OLAP and Data Warehousing 9. Beyond Conventional Data Types 10. Transactions and Concurrency Control 11. PostgreSQL Security 12. The PostgreSQL Catalog 13. Optimizing Database Performance 14. Testing 15. Using PostgreSQL in Python Applications 16. Scalability 17. What's Next? 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Testing

Software testing is the process of analyzing program components, programs, and systems with the intention of finding errors in them, and to determine or check their technical limits and requirements.

The database is a specific system that requires special approaches for testing. This is because the behavior of database software components (views, stored procedures, or functions) may depend not only on their code, but also on the data. In many cases, functions are not immutable. This means that executing them again with the same parameters can produce different results.

That is why we should use specific techniques to test database modules. PostgreSQL provides some features that can help developers and testers in doing this.

In software architecture, the database is usually found at the lowest level. User interface components display information and pass commands to backend...

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