what actual a tester perform in database testing?(its very
urgent pls)

Answer Posted / nilutpal

To perform DB testing, a tester may follow below steps -

Step-1: Check pre-requisites - Application and Database
should be present, DB should be integrated with
application, Test data should be ready or enter data
through application.

Step-2: 1. Open database – SQL/Oracle
2. Open query editor.
3.Select the database
4.Enter the query to check test data

Step-3: You have to equipped with below -
1. queries to compare records,
2. compare record counts,
3. Check primary key and foreign key(s)
4. Table descriptions and data-types as well as its
properties of fields
5. check integrity,
6. Check joins to establish relations
7. identify orphaned records
8. By using sql profiler,you can check which SP is called
for which event.
9. Check whether records are properly stored or not in
there respective tables.
10. Check indexing.

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