README

PostgreSQL/JDBC Test Suite Howto
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1 Introduction
2 Installation
3 Configuration
4 Running the test suite
5 Extending the test suite with new tests
6 Guidelines for developing new tests
7 Example
8 Running the JDBC 2 test suite from Sun against PostgreSQL
9 Credits, feedback


1 Introduction
--------------
The PostgreSQL source tree contains an automated test suite for
the JDBC driver. This document explains how to install,
configure and run this test suite. Furthermore, it offers
guidelines and an example for developers to add new test cases.

Sun provides two standard JDBC test suites that you may also
find useful.
http://java.sun.com/products/jdbc/download2.html (JDBC 1)
http://java.sun.com/products/jdbc/jdbctestsuite-1_2_1.html (JDBC
2, including J2EE requirements)
The JDBC 2 test suite is covered in section 8 below. The JDBC 1
test suite is not currently covered in this document.

2 Installation
--------------
Of course, you need to have a Java 2 JDK or JRE installed. The
standard JDK from Sun is OK. You can download it from
http://java.sun.com/.

You need to install the Ant build utility. You can download it
from http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/.

You also need to install the JUnit testing framework. You can
download it from http://www.junit.org/. Add junit.jar to your
CLASSPATH before you perform the following steps. Ant will
dynamically detect that JUnit is present and then build the JDBC
test suite.

You need to install and build the PostgreSQL JDBC driver source
tree. You can download it from http://jdbc.postgresql.org/.  See
README in the top of the tree for more information.

In this Howto we'll use $JDBC_SRC to refer to the top-level directory
of the JDBC driver source tree.  The test suite is located in the
subdirectory $JDBC_SRC/org/postgresql/test.

3 Configuration
---------------
The test suite requires a PostgreSQL database to run the tests against
and a user to login as. The tests will create and drop many objects in
this database, so it should not contain production tables to avoid
loss of data. We recommend you assign the following names:

  database: test
  username: test
  password: password

These names correspond with the default names set for the test suite
in $JDBC_SRC/build.xml. If you have chosen other names you need to
create a file named $JDBC_SRC/build.local.properties and add your
customized values of the properties "database", "username" and
"password".

4 Running the test suite
------------------------
%cd $JDBC_SRC
%ant test

This will run the command line version of JUnit. If you'd like
to see an animated coloured progress bar as the tests are
executed, you may want to use one of the GUI versions of the
test runner. See the JUnit documentation for more information.

If the test suite reports errors or failures that you cannot
explain, please post the relevant parts of the output to the
mailing list pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org.

5 Extending the test suite with new tests
-----------------------------------------
If you're not familiar with JUnit, we recommend that you
first read the introductory article "JUnit Test Infected:
Programmers Love Writing Tests" on
http://junit.sourceforge.net/doc/testinfected/testing.htm.
Before continuing, you should ensure you understand the
following concepts: test suite, test case, test, fixture,
assertion, failure.

The test suite consists of test cases, which consist of tests.
A test case is a collection of tests that test a particular
feature. The test suite is a collection of test cases that
together test the driver - and to an extent the PostgreSQL
backend - as a whole.

If you decide to add a test to an existing test case, all you
need to do is add a method with a name that begins with "test"
and which takes no arguments. JUnit will dynamically find this
method using reflection and run it when it runs the test case.
In your test method you can use the fixture that is setup for it
by the test case.

If you decide to add a new test case, you should do two things:
1) Add a class that extends junit.framework.TestCase. It should
contain setUp() and tearDown() methods that create and destroy
the fixture respectively.
2) Edit $JDBC_SRC/org/postgresql/test/jdbc2/Jdbc2TestSuite.java or
$JDBC_SRC/org/postgresql/test/jdbc3/Jdbc3TestSuite.java and add a
suite.addTestSuite() call for your class. This will make the test case
part of the test suite.

6 Guidelines for developing new tests
-------------------------------------
Every test should create and drop its own tables. We suggest to
consider database objects (e.g. tables) part of the fixture for
the tests in the test case. The test should also succeed when a
table by the same name already exists in the test database, e.g.
by dropping the table before running the test (ignoring errors).
The recommended pattern for creating and dropping tables can be
found in the example in section 7 below.

Please note that JUnit provides several convenience methods to
check for conditions. See the TestCase class in the Javadoc
documentation of JUnit, which is installed on your system. For
example, you can compare two integers using
TestCase.assertEquals(int expected, int actual). This method
will print both values in case of a failure.

To simply report a failure use TestCase.fail().

The JUnit FAQ explains how to test for a thrown exception.

Avoid the use of the deprecated TestCase.assert(), since it
collides with the new assert keyword in the Java 2 platform
version 1.4.

As a rule, the test suite should succeed. Any errors or failures
- which may be caused by bugs in the JDBC driver, the backend or
the test suite - should be fixed ASAP. Don't let a test fail
just to make it clear that something needs to be fixed somewhere.
That's what the TODO lists are for.

Add some comments to your tests to explain to others what it is
you're testing. A long sequence of JDBC method calls and JUnit
assertions can be hard to comprehend.

For example, in the comments you can explain where a certain test
condition originates from. Is it a JDBC requirement, PostgreSQL
behaviour or the intended implementation of a feature?

7 Example (incomplete)
----------------------
package org.postgresql.test.jdbc2;

import org.postgresql.test.TestUtil;
import junit.framework.TestCase;
import java.sql.*;

/*
 * Test case for ...
 */
public class FooTest extends TestCase {

    private Connection con;
    private Statement stmt;

    public FooTest(String name) {
        super(name);
    }

    protected void setUp() throws Exception {
        con = TestUtil.openDB();
        stmt = con.createStatement();

        // Drop the test table if it already exists for some
        // reason. It is not an error if it doesn't exist.
        try {
            stmt.executeUpdate("DROP TABLE testfoo");
        } catch (SQLException e) {
             // Intentionally ignore. We cannot distinguish
             // "table does not exist" from other errors, since
             // PostgreSQL doesn't support error codes yet.
        }

        stmt.executeUpdate(
           "CREATE TABLE testfoo(pk INTEGER, col1 INTEGER)");
        stmt.executeUpdate("INSERT INTO testfoo VALUES(1, 0)");

        // You may want to call con.setAutoCommit(false) at
        // this point, if most tests in this test case require
        // the use of transactions.
    }

    protected void tearDown() throws Exception {
        con.setAutoCommit(true);
        if (stmt != null) {
            stmt.executeUpdate("DROP TABLE testfoo");
            stmt.close();
        }
        if (con != null) {
              TestUtil.closeDB(con);
        }
    }

    public void testFoo() {
        // Use the assert methods in junit.framework.TestCase
        // for the actual tests

        // Just some silly examples
        assertNotNull(con);
        if (stmt == null) {
        	fail("Where is my statement?");
        }
    }

    public void testBar() {
    	// Another test.
    }
}

8. Running the JDBC 2 test suite from Sun against PostgreSQL
------------------------------------------------------------
Download the test suite from
http://java.sun.com/products/jdbc/jdbctestsuite-1_2_1.html
This is the JDBC 2 test suite that includes J2EE requirements.

1. Configure PostgreSQL so that it accepts TCP/IP connections and
   start the server. Prepare PostgreSQL by creating two users (cts1
   and cts2) and two databases (DB1 and DB2) in the cluster that is
   going to be used for JDBC testing.

2. Download the latest release versions of the J2EE, J2SE, and JDBC
   test suite from Sun's Java site (http://java.sun.com), and install
   according to Sun's documentation.

3. The following environment variables should be set:

      CTS_HOME=<path where JDBC test suite installed (eg: /usr/local/jdbccts)>
      J2EE_HOME=<path where J2EE installed (eg: /usr/local/j2sdkee1.2.1)>
      JAVA_HOME=<path where J2SE installed (eg: /usr/local/jdk1.3.1)>
      NO_JAVATEST=Y
      LOCAL_CLASSES=<path to PostgreSQL JDBC driver jar>

4. In $J2EE_HOME/config/default.properties:

      jdbc.drivers=org.postgresql.Driver
      jdbc.datasources=jdbc/DB1|jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/DB1|jdbc/DB2|jdbc:postgresq://localhost:5432/DB2

   Of course, if PostgreSQL is running on a computer different from
   the one running the application server, localhost should be changed
   to the proper host. Also, 5432 should be changed to whatever port
   PostgreSQL is listening on (5432 is the default).

   In $J2EE_HOME/bin/userconfig.sh:

      Add $CTS_HOME/lib/harness.jar, $CTS_HOME/lib/moo.jar,
      $CTS_HOME/lib/util.jar to J2EE_CLASSPATH. Also add the path to
      the PostgreSQL JDBC jar to J2EE_CLASSPATH. Set the JAVA_HOME
      variable to where you installed the J2SE. You should end up with
      something like this:

      CTS_HOME=/home/liams/linux/java/jdbccts
      J2EE_CLASSPATH=/home/liams/work/inst/postgresql-7.1.2/share/java/postgresql.jar:$CTS_HOME/lib/harness.jar:$CTS_HOME/lib/moo.jar:$CTS_HOME/lib/util.jar
      export J2EE_CLASSPATH

      JAVA_HOME=/home/liams/linux/java/jdk1.3.1
      export JAVA_HOME

   In $CTS_HOME/bin/cts.jte:

      webServerHost=localhost
      webServerPort=8000
      servletServerHost=localhost
      servletServerPort=8000

5. Start the application server (j2ee):

      $ cd $J2EE_HOME
      $ bin/j2ee -verbose

   The server can be stopped after the tests have finished:

     $ cd $J2EE_HOME
     $ bin/j2ee -stop

6. Run the JDBC tests:

     $ cd $CTS_HOME/tests/jdbc/ee
     $ make jdbc-tests

At the time of writing of this document, a great number of tests
in this test suite fail.

9 Credits, feedback
-------------------
The parts of this document describing the PostgreSQL test suite
were originally written by Rene Pijlman. Liam Stewart contributed
the section on the Sun JDBC 2 test suite.

Please send your questions about the JDBC test suites or suggestions
for improvement to the pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org mailing list.

The source of this document is maintained in
org/postgresql/test/README in CVS. Patches for
improvement can be send to the mailing list
pgsql-jdbc@postgresql.org.