Tag Archives: Random Query Generator
That’s the question every tester dreads to hear, because it usually means we’ve let something really embarrassing slip into a release.
The real answer is, “Yes, we do,” though that doesn’t offer much comfort if you’re facing issues in production. Still, during quieter moments, people sometimes ask less rhetorically what kind of testing takes place in MariaDB. Let’s dive into that.
A path of a bugfix into a maintenance release
When a pull request (or an internal patch outside the PR system) is pushed into the MariaDB/server repository on Github, it is picked by the MariaDB server CI, Buildbot.
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My fellow testers and others who run RQG tests on MySQL flavors might be interested in some additions that are being used for MariaDB testing. While none of them is a major breakthrough, maybe they will make somebody’s life a little easier.
RQG Introduction
A quick introduction for those who have never heard of RQG, but are still curious what this blog post is about.
RQG stands for Random Query Generator, also known as randgen — an open-source product, available under the GPL v2 license. Quoting its home page on Launchpad, it is a “pseudo-random data and query generator that can be used to test any Perl DBI, JDBC or ODBC-compatible SQL server, in particular MySQL, but also JavaDB and PostgreSQL”. …
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