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-* REGRESSION TEST SUITE GOALS
-
-The intent of this test suite is to provide sufficient coverage for
-the system to support the following:
-
-** Refactoring and Redesign of particular subsystems
-
-Refactoring and redesign efforts are normally restricted to a single
-subsystem, or perhaps to interdependent subsystems. In such cases, a
-set of regression tests which excercise the existing interface of the
-rest of USQL to the changing subsystems should be in place and passing
-before the coding starts.
-
-** Ensuring portability and Supporting new ports.
-
-The more coverage the test suite provides the easier portability is to
-maintain, particularly if we have instances of the test suite running
-against the head on the supporting lisp environment/OS/hardware/DBMS
-combinations. Since no individual within the project has the ability
-to run all of those combinations themselves, we are dependent upon some
-informal coordination between the mintainers of the various ports.
-
-** Adding new RDBMS backends
-
-The entire USQL DBMS interface needs to be excercised by the test
-suite, such that a new RDBMS backend that passes all the tests can be
-reasonably assured of working with the USQL layers above that. These
-tests should also serve as impromptu documentation for the details of
-that interface and what it expects frothe RDBMS driver layers.
-
-** Bug identification and QA
-
-As new bugs are identified, they should have a regression test written
-which excercises them. This is to ensue that we donot start
-backtracking. These tests by theselves are also very valuable for
-developers, so even if you cannot fix a bug yourself, providing a
-testto excercise it greatly reduces the amount of timea developer must
-spend finding the bug prior to fixing it.
-
-
-* TEST DESIGN ISSUES
-
-** Multiple RDBMS Issues
-
-USQL supports several RDBMS backends, and it should be possible to run
-every test against all of them. However, there are some features
-which we want tests for but which are not implemented on several of
-the backends.
-
-** Test Hygiene
-
-Tests should be able to be run multiple times against the same
-database. It is also important that they clean up after themselves
-when they create tables, sequences or other pesistent entities in the
-RDBMS backends, because often there are limits to the number of those
-thatcan exist at one time, and it also makes debuging thru the SQL
-monitors difficult when there aretons of unused tables lying around.
-
-If test need to load large datasets, they should have a mechanism to
-ensure the dataset is loaded just once, and not with every test run.
-
-Lastly, because there are various idiosyncracies with RDBMSs, please
-ensure that you run the entire test suite once when you write your
-tests, to ensure that your test does not leave some state behind which
-causes other tests to fail.
-
-** Test Run Configuration
-
-The file test-init.lisp defines several variables which can be used to
-control the connection dictionary of the database against which tests
-will be run.
-
-
-* DATABASE CONNECTIONS/LIFECYCLE
-
-** CreateDB
- *** Without existing DB
- *** With existing DB and use old
- *** With existing DB and use new
- *** Error if existing DB
-
-** Data Definition
- *** Create Tables/Sequences/Indexes -- Should cover creation of
- tables with all supported types of fields.
- *** Delete Tables/Sequences/Indexes
- *** Inspection of Tables and attributes, including types
-
-** Data Manipulation
- *** Update
- *** Insert
- *** Delete
- *** Query
-
-** Functional Interface
- *** Creation/Modification of SQL expressions
- *** Querying
-
-** Embedded SQL syntax
- *** Excercise all sql operators
-
-** Object Interface
- *** View class definition
- *** Object creation/manipulation/deletion
- *** Inter-object Relations
-
-** Editing Contexts
- *** Object Create/Modification/Deletion in a context -- partly covered already
- *** Interaction of multiple contexts
- *** Schema manipulation within a context
- *** Rollback and error handling within a context
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