Metadata Extraction in Database Testing

Abstract

The need for an automated testing tool to test the correctness of the database applications is crucial in our current day since databases play an important role in almost all organizations. Also, database’s behavior need to be verified in order to avoid costly errors and false information being extracted from them. The main aim of this paper was to create a component-based tester called DBSoft that tests the correctness of database application systems. The DBSoft toolkit consists of five tools as follows: information collection with the Parser tool, test case generation with the Input Generator tool, test case implementation with the Output Generator tool, test case validation with the Output Validator tool and report generation with the Report Generator tool.