Running Database Unit Tests

In Visual Studio, you run database unit tests by using the Test List Editor 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 List Editor and Test View 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 Basic or Visual C#
  Describes how to edit a basic database unit test to add functionality.

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