Database Testing
Sample Db SQL Executor

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Sample DB SQL Executor

This is particularly useful where as part of your testing you are not satisfied only with the REST responses and you want to verify the DB changes has gone well or not. It's very easy to and sometimes it's a good practice to test this DB verification bit too.

Woking example repo is here to clone and run from your IDE : https://github.com/BeTheCodeWithYou/SpringBoot-ZeroCode-Integration (opens in a new tab)

Postgres DB console

See this Wiki (opens in a new tab) page for spinning up a docker container for a Postgres DB.

IP: localhost, Port:25432, Database name: postgres

db_host_url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:35432/postgres
db_username=postgres
db_password=example

Docker DB logs below-

postgres=# CREATE TABLE employees (
postgres(#     id bigint NOT NULL,
postgres(#     name character varying(10) NOT NULL
postgres(# );
CREATE TABLE
postgres=# insert into employees(id, name) values(1, 'Jack');
INSERT 0 1

postgres=# insert into employees(id, name) values(2, 'Pulsar');
INSERT 0 1
postgres=# select * from employees;
 id |  name
----+--------
  1 | Jack
  2 | Pulsar
(2 rows)

How the tests will look

The below are sample only, but you can extend this or devise your own execution method which makes your life easy. Let's see below how we can achieve this:

  • Sample Test steps
  • Config properties (useful for your env switching)
  • Executor code (You can even more customize this for your project specific)
  • Test Logs(collected from console logs or target logs)

Sample Test steps:

{
    "scenarioName": "Postgres DB SQL Executor - Simple and generic one, you can extend to ",
    "steps": [
        {
            "name": "fetch_all",
            "url": "com.xp.springboot.dbutils.PostGresSqlExecutor",
            "operation": "executeSimpleSql",
            "request": "select * from employees;",
            "assertions": {
                "rows.SIZE": 2,
                "rows": [
                    {
                        "id": 1,
                        "name": "Jack"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "Pulsar",
                        "id": 2
                    }
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "fetch_with_where",
            "url": "com.xp.springboot.dbutils.PostGresSqlExecutor",
            "operation": "executeSimpleSql",
            "request": "select id, name from employees where name='${$.fetch_all.response.rows[1].name}';",
            "assertions": {
                "rows.SIZE": 1,
                "rows": [
                    {
                        "id": 2,
                        "name": "${$.fetch_all.response.rows[1].name}"
                    }
                ]
            }
        }
    ]
}

Config properties

This is where you DB host, user, password details goes along with REST/SOAP/Kafka application host.

# Web Server host and port
web.application.endpoint.host=http://localhost
web.application.endpoint.port=8080
web.application.endpoint.context=

## ---------------------------
##  DB Host configs - Postgres
## ---------------------------
db_host_url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:31435/postgres
db_username=replicaowner
db_password=password

Executor code

Here the config properties are automatically injected, hence env switching does not affect this code.

public class PostGresSqlExecutor {
    private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(PostGresSqlExecutor.class);
    Map<String, List<Map<String, Object>>> dbRecordsMap = new HashMap<>();
    public static final String RESULTS_KEY = "rows";
 
    @Inject
    @Named("db_host_url")
    private String dbHostUrl;
 
    @Inject
    @Named("db_username")
    private String dbUserName;
 
    @Inject
    @Named("db_password")
    private String dbPassword;
 
    public Map<String, List<Map<String, Object>>> executeSimpleSql(String simpleSql) {
 
        LOGGER.info("DB - Executing SQL query: {}", simpleSql);
 
        List<Map<String, Object>> recordsList = fetchDbRecords(simpleSql);
 
        // -------------------------------------------------------
        // Put all the fetched rows into nice JSON key and return.
        // -- This make it better to assert SIZE etc in the steps.
        // -- You can choose any key.
        // -------------------------------------------------------
        dbRecordsMap.put(RESULTS_KEY, recordsList);
 
        return dbRecordsMap;
    }

Test Logs

See the sample request/response after you have executed the test.

2018-11-30 15:50:07,869 [main] INFO com.xp.springboot.dbutils.PostGresSqlExecutor - DB - Executing SQL query: select * from employees;
 
2018-11-30 15:50:07,830 [main] INFO org.jsmart.zerocode.core.runner.ZeroCodeMultiStepsScenarioRunnerImpl -
----- BDD: Scenario:Postgres DB SQL Executor - Simple and generic one  -------
 
--------- TEST-STEP-CORRELATION-ID: 09857cc4-b13b-48aa-aa52-10a21107a8db ---------
*requestTimeStamp:2018-11-30T15:50:07.857
step:fetch_all
url:com.xp.springboot.dbutils.PostGresSqlExecutor
method:executeSimpleSql
request:
"select * from employees;"
--------- TEST-STEP-CORRELATION-ID: 09857cc4-b13b-48aa-aa52-10a21107a8db ---------
Response:
{
  "rows" : [ {
    "name" : "Jack",
    "id" : 1
  }, {
    "name" : "Pulsar",
    "id" : 2
  } ]
}
*responseTimeStamp:2018-11-30T15:50:07.958
*Response delay:101.0 milli-secs
---------> Assertion: <----------
{
  "rows.SIZE" : 2,
  "rows" : [ {
    "id" : 1,
    "name" : "Jack"
  }, {
    "name" : "Pulsar",
    "id" : 2
  } ]
}
-done-
 
2018-11-30 15:50:07,992 [main] INFO com.xp.springboot.dbutils.PostGresSqlExecutor - DB - Executing SQL query: select id, name from employees where name='Pulsar';
 
--------- TEST-STEP-CORRELATION-ID: 174d132d-07a9-46c0-a8a2-4fd3e38de960 ---------
*requestTimeStamp:2018-11-30T15:50:07.992
step:fetch_with_where
url:com.xp.springboot.dbutils.PostGresSqlExecutor
method:executeSimpleSql
request:
"select id, name from employees where name='Pulsar';"
--------- TEST-STEP-CORRELATION-ID: 174d132d-07a9-46c0-a8a2-4fd3e38de960 ---------
Response:
{
  "rows" : [ {
    "name" : "Pulsar",
    "id" : 2
  } ]
}
*responseTimeStamp:2018-11-30T15:50:08.002
*Response delay:10.0 milli-secs
---------> Assertion: <----------
{
  "rows.SIZE" : 1,
  "rows" : [ {
    "id" : 2,
    "name" : "Pulsar"
  } ]
}
-done-

POM dependencies

This is for PostGres one, you need to add the similar driver dependencies for Oracle or Sybase or MySql etc.

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>
            <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
            <version>${version.postgresql}</version>
        </dependency>