Running Database Unit Tests

In Visual Studio, you run database unit tests by using the Test Manager window, the Test View window, or the Command Prompt window.

In This Section

• How to: Run Database Unit Tests
  Describes how you can run database unit tests, depending on the software that you have installed.

• How to: Run Database Unit Tests
  Describes how you can run database unit tests by using the Test View window.

• How to: Debug Database Objects
  Describes how you can debug the stored procedures, functions, and triggers in your database.

• How to: Configure Database Unit Test Execution
  Describes how you can specify settings that control how your test connects to the database that you will test, how you deploy a schema from a database project to that database, and whether you populate the database with data.

• Overview of Connection Strings and Permissions
  Describes how you can use connection strings to make sure that the scripts in your database unit tests are run with appropriate permissions.

• Interpreting Database Unit Test Results
  Describes the meaning of the results that you obtain after you run database unit tests.

Related Sections

• Running Tests
  Provides links to topics that describe how you can start to run any type of test, for example, from the Test View and Test Manager windows.

• Command-Line Test Execution
  Provides links to topics that describe how you can use the MSTest.exe command to run tests, see test results, save results to disk, and publish results.

• Troubleshooting Test Execution
  Describes some of the conditions that cause tests to generate errors, generate warnings, or fail to run and provides steps to resolve the problem.

• Designing Database Unit Tests
  Describes how to create and add test conditions to a basic database unit test.

• Customizing Database Unit Tests in Visual C# or Visual Basic
  Describes how to edit a basic database unit test to add functionality.

• Terminology Overview of Team Edition for Database Professionals
  Provides definitions of terms that are specific to Team Edition for Database Professionals and contains a link to definitions for terms that relate to Visual Studio Team System.