September - December 2016
September 2016
- Found / reported bugs: CORE-5353
- Created / modified QA tests for ~20 tracker tickets
- Added test for new feature in 4.0: EXCEPTION and ERROR_MESSAGE context variables
- Prepared standard Oracle SCOTT schema for using in FB tests
- Collected stacktraces for crashes in FB 2.5 which occur on checking user rights for trigger while it is modified in another connection
- Benchmark for encrypted / non-encrypted database: encryption effects performance by ~4..8%
- OLTP-EMUL: misc changes
October 2016
- Found / reported bugs: CORE-5364, CORE-5385
- Created / modified QA tests for ~25 tracker tickets
- OLTP-EMUL: added checking for FB crash or connection trouble inside block which does initial data populaton
- Found crash after changing DB-level trigger state form inactive to active
- Continued collecting stacktraces for FB 2.5.7 crashes
- Started creation of prototype for integral test for SQL SECURITY clause
- Found performance regressions in FB 4.0
- Continued collect samples for integral test of CORE-3362 (cursor stability)
- OLTP-EMUL: attempt to run test on special FB build provided by Slavomir Skopalik. Failed with dozen of crashes.
November 2016
- Found / reported bugs: CORE-5408
- Created / modified QA tests for ~30 tracker tickets
- OLTP-EMUL: changed scripts to be able to use this test with enabled replication
- Found difference in execution plans while making test for CORE-3450
- Started implementing test as attempt to reproduce crash when trigger source is changed while other attachments make DML on table(s)
- OLTP-EMUL: more benchmarks of FB 2.5.7 vs 3.0.0 vs 3.0.1
December 2016
- Found / reported bugs: CORE-5413, CORE-5418, CORE-5423, CORE-5424, CORE-5426
- Created / modified QA tests for ~40 tracker tickets
- Found poor performance of SIMILAR TO comparing with LIKE on trivial search of line containing at least one character from [a-z]
- Upgraded fbtest to its last version on the Windows testing VM
- Found that FB service often cannot be correctly stopped after bugcheck
- OLTP-EMUL: misc changes
Pavel Zotov
Moscow, Russian Federation