I find that depending on an external database makes the unit tests very brittle.. Unless you are specifically testing something that requires a specific type of database, I find that using hsqldb or axion works fine..
Eric > -----Original Message----- > From: Stefan Bodewig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 9:24 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Existence of a database? > > > On Sat, 15 May 2004, Ceki G�lc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Could we assume that gump machines have a database that these test > > cases can connect to? > > You can savely assume that hsqldb is around[1] but not "installed" in > any way. I.e. you could make your tests depend on hsqldb and they'd > work in Gump. > > Even if some Gump machine may use some kind of DB in the future (to > gather historical data or whatever else we come up with), there'll be > no guarantee that all machines have one. > > Stefan > > Footnotes: > [1] http://brutus.apache.org/gump/public/hsqldb/hsqldb/index.html > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
