Testing Berkeley DB

Oracle Berkeley DB is a family of database engines that provide high performance, transactional data management on a wide variety of platforms. Berkeley DB products are available under a dual license: an open source license and a commercial license. We discuss some of the standard testing and tuning techniques used for ensuring the quality and reliability of the Berkeley DB library, emphasizing some of the interesting testing challenges arising due to multi-platform support. Since Berkeley DB is available in source code form, it can be adapted/modified by users in the field. It is necessary to test and validate the modified version of Berkeley DB before it can be deployed in production. We discuss some testing tools and techniques provided with the Berkeley DB distribution that simplify the process of user-testing and certifying Berkeley DB ports to new platforms.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: DEBU
• Authors: Ashok Joshi, Charles Lamb, Carol Sandstrom
• Keywords: Berkeley DB, Berkeley DB Products, DEBU 2008, Oracle Berkeley DB