Unit Testing XQuery

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I've been working with a document repository using XQuery (via Java and .NET interfaces) and was wondering if anyone has any recommendations for unit testing XQuery modules?

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 15 '13 at 19:07

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There are several XQuery unit testing frameworks, but most are special-purpose written for a specific XQuery Processor. This is not a complete list, but includes most of the popular ones I'm aware of:

MarkLogic

Roxy Unit Tester https://github.com/marklogic/roxy/wiki/Unit-Testing

XQUT https://github.com/mblakele/xqut

xray https://github.com/robwhitby/xray

eXist

XQSuite http://exist-db.org/exist/apps/doc/xqsuite.xml

BaseX

XQuery Unit Module http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Unit_Module

answered Oct 15 '13 at 19:07

wst

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There is also XSuite which lets you run XQSuite tests as JUnit tests – adamretter Aug 26 '18 at 09:24
@adamretter, is there documentation for XSuite? I only see it mentioned in eXist release notes. – wst Aug 26 '18 at 23:03
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Not exactly. XSpec javadoc can be seen here: https://github.com/eXist-db/exist/blob/develop/test/src/org/exist/test/runner/XSuite.java#L46 One of many examples of it being used can be seen here: https://github.com/eXist-db/exist/blob/develop/test/src/xquery/dates/DateTests.java#L28 Let me know if you need more info on XSuite... – adamretter Aug 27 '18 at 18:38

Oliver Hallam · Accepted Answer · 2010-04-15T12:19:47.463

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Here is a quick DIY type solution for this problem: ~~Poor man's unit testing with XQuery~~ (dead link).

This approach seems to have been embraced and extended for the tests of the xprocxq project.

Other tools exist, for example XTC.

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answered Feb 10 '09 at 23:01

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 15 '13 at 17:43

Try XQSuite

It's pretty slick; here's the "minimal example":

declare namespace test="http://exist-db.org/xquery/xqsuite";

declare function %test:assertEquals("Hello world") local:hello() { "Hello world" };

Additionally, XSpec works wonderfully for XSLT testing (provides nicely formatted HTML test results, for example) BUT appears to need a bit of work with XQuery testing. The project appears to have become inactive in the past few years.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 05 '10 at 15:44

This link may spruce your development. This is just an idea but you can develope and enhance more on this with various unit-test case design ideas.

since Xml is a king in meta-data world its quite easy to design and run.

design a Test-Case Xml by having all details capture
1. test-data ( input & expected result )
2. test-case id
3. test-case local methods
invoke dynamically based on the details.

functions

sample test script

results

Unit Testing XQuery

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