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David Wheeler
Co-Founder, Associate, PostgreSQL Experts, Inc.

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David E. Wheeler is President of Portland-based Kineticode, and former CTO of Values of n, creators of the PostgreSQL-and-Rails-powered iwantsandy.com, home of Sandy, your personal email assistant. David is also maintainer and lead developer of Bricolage, a content management and publishing system powered by Perl and PostgreSQL. For his next trick, he may or may not build a Python or Lisp or BASIC-powered Web application, but whatever it is, it will likely be built on PostgreSQL. Unless it’s a blog, in which case he’ll just use SQLite.

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4:30pm Thursday, 07/23/2009

Unit Test Your Database!

Databases, Programming
Location: Meeting Room J1/J4

David Wheeler (PostgreSQL Experts, Inc.)

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You unit test your application API. You unit test your presentation layer. You write integration and acceptance tests. But your database is tested only as a side-effect to testing everything else. That's a pretty important part of the stack to just leave to the assumption it works as expected! Come to this talk to learn about the tools that enable integrated unit tests for your database. Read more.

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David Wheeler Co-Founder, Associate, PostgreSQL Experts, Inc.