In my code I interact with a database (not part of my solution file). The database is owned by a separate team of DBA’s, and the code we developers write is only allowed to access stored procs. However we have full view of the database’s procs, tables, and columns (it’s definition). For my code that is dependent upon data, I currently write unit tests that dumb-up data in the tables (and tear down/remove those rows after the unit test is done), so I can run unit tests to exercise my code that interacts with the DB. All of the code to do this is in the test file (especially in the ClassInitialize() and ClassCleanup() functions). However I’ve been given some amount of grief from my new coworkers call my style of unit tests “destructive” because I read/write to the dev database inserting and removing rows. At the time we code the unit tests, the database design is generally not stable, so many times we can find issues in the stored proc code before we unleash the QA department on our programs (saves resources). They all tell me there’s a way to clone to the database into memory at the time the MSTest unit tests are run, however they don’t know how to do it. I’ve researched around the web and cannot find a way to do what my coworkers need me to do.
Can someone tell me for sure whether or not this can happen in the environment I shown above? If so, can you point me in the right direction?
Even with a bounty, I could not find out if this does exist. I would assume at this point, the people who had told me that this technology does exist might have been mistaken.