RE: Check packages for functions and parameters

What about using a continuous build harness like cruise control, basically it runs continuous builds and will report success and failure of the build and the resultant testing. If you point a build of your code to a new application then it will rapidly fail at one step alerting you to the fact that a particular module has been altered. All other code is immediately verified to still function to your test suite. If your test suite is good then it is a simple targeted fix Do a Google search for "continuous build" to find other suitable tools

HTH Peter McLarty
Technical Consultant
Service Delivery  

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of David Mitchell Sent: Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:12 AM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Check packages for functions and parameters

We have a third party application that we've layered our own asp.net app on top of and the vendor periodically changes some functions around when new releases come out. In particular a function was recently moved from one package to another. They also sometimes change the parameters for a given function that we rely on. Our developer is looking for a way to do some rudimentary unit testing to ensure we know when something has changed. The unit tests are being written in C#. So far we've been thinking of looking at all_source to check to see if a function is still in a particular package but we've yet to come up with a good way to check to see if the parameters have changed. Anyone got any suggestions while I continue my search?

David
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http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Received on Tue Sep 05 2006 - 19:43:49 CDT