Source: libdbd-mock-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Jaldhar H. Vyas , gregor herrmann , Ansgar Burchardt , Xavier Guimard Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8), libmodule-build-perl Build-Depends-Indep: perl, libdbi-perl, libtest-exception-perl (>= 0.31), libtest-pod-perl, libtest-pod-coverage-perl Standards-Version: 3.9.6 Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libdbd-mock-perl.git Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-perl/packages/libdbd-mock-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/DBD-Mock Package: libdbd-mock-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${perl:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libdbi-perl Description: Mock database driver for testing Testing with databases can be tricky. If you are developing a system married to a single database then you can make some assumptions about your environment and ask the user to provide relevant connection information. But if you need to test a framework that uses DBI, particularly a framework that uses different types of persistence schemes, then it may be more useful to simply verify what the framework is trying to do -- ensure the right SQL is generated and that the correct parameters are bound. DBD::Mock makes it easy to just modify your configuration (presumably held outside your code) and just use it instead of DBD::Foo (like DBD::Pg or DBD::mysql) in your framework.