Re: [Firebird-test] BBT: Automated QA and TCS

[John B. <bel...@cs...>]

Pavel,

On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 12:49 PM, Pavel Cisar wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 3 Jul 2002 at 10:09, John Bellardo wrote:
>
>> One of the things that would help here is the ability to take generic
>> sql scripts and run them through all the different interfaces (esql,
>> dsql, etc).  This would allow us to drive common aspects of our
>> different interfaces from the same test script.  Write once and test
>> everywhere.  Obviously it will only work for the common subset of
>> interface functionality (dsql doesn't have blob access, for example).
>> But a lot of the tests in TCS are glorified SQL scripts already and
>> would benefit from this.
>
> This would be really nice. But pardon my ignorance (I'm not an ESQL
> guru), how we can run arbitrary SQL scripts via ESQL ? I don't know that
> this is possible directly, so would need some transformation tool (jet
> another kind of GPRE) ?

There would need to be a small transformation tool, but it shouldn't be 
too complex.  It would take as input the SQL and spit out a .e (or .epp) 
file.

> [...]

-John