Unit Testing SSIS Packages
Unit testing is a widely accepted best practice, yet it is difficult to do well with SSIS packages. This session will focus on both the practice of test driven development as it applies to SSIS, and the tools for actually implementing it. It will cover in depth how to set up your development environment to support test driven development and what techniques can be used to make this practical for SSIS. You will also see how to automate the testing of SSIS packages, using the open source ssisUnit framework. The session will cover several of the common questions about automated unit testing, including how to handle test data, how to set up the environment for multiple developers, how to make tests flexible, and how to ensure that the tests remain valuable over time.
John Welch
John Welch is BI Architect with Varigence. Varigence builds tools and frameworks that enable the creation and management of end-to-end business intelligence solutions with unprecedented ease and speed. John has been working with business intelligence and data warehousing technologies since 2001, with a focus on Microsoft products in heterogeneous environments. He is a Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP), an award given due to his commitment to sharing his knowledge with the IT community. John is an experienced speaker, having given presentations at Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) conferences, the Microsoft Business Intelligence conference, Software Development West (SD West), Software Management Conference (ASM/SM), and others. He has also contributed to three recent books on SQL Server 2008, “Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management and Administration”, "Smart Business Intelligence Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server 2008", and “SQL Server MVP Deep Dives”.
John writes a blog on business intelligence and SSIS topics at http://agilebi.com/jwelch. He is active in open source projects that help ease the development process for Microsoft BI developers, including BIDS Helper (http://bidshelper.codeplex.com), an add-in for Business Intelligence Development Studio that adds commonly needed functionality to the environment. He is also the lead developer on ssisUnit (http://ssisunit.codeplex.com), a unit testing framework for SSIS.
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