Getting started with TdRules Services

TdRules is a REST API and the associated services, components and applications to evaluate the coverage test data. Formerly named SQLRules (Evaluation of test coverage for SQL database queries), TdRules is progressively evolving to enable evaluation of coverage for data stores other than relational databases and SQL.

Coverage criteria are implemented in a set of rules, that when evaluated with respect to a given database determine the coverage of the database with respect to the query. Two criteria are implemented:

• FPC - Full Predicate Coverage : Based on Modified Condition Decision Coverage (MCDC). Each rule is an query statement that is covered if the execution against the database returns at least one row.
  See article Full predicate coverage for testing SQL database queries. Software Testing, Verification and Reliability, 20 (3) 237-288, September 2010.
• SQLMutation - Mutants for SQL: It is a mutation system for SQL database queries. Each rule is a mutant of the original query. The mutant is dead (i.e. the rule is covered) if the execution against the database returns the same rows than the original query.
  See article Mutating Database Queries, Information and Software Technology, 49(4) 398-417, 2007.

Check the below links to the API, documentation and applications:

• REST API specification V4: To visualize the OpenApi specification and interact with the API resources (swagger-ui).
• TdRules components in GitHub: To generate the rules and the database schema from an application (available on Java and .NET).
• Full specification in json: To create your own api generator.
• Complementary applications (only for SQL and relational databases):
  • SQLRules web client: To rapidly generate the rules from a web browser (SQL queries) (see the documentation).
  • SQLRules standalone desktop application: Java application to generate and evaluate the rules for multiple queries against your local database.
  • XDBSchema standalone desktop application: Java application to generate the database schema required by SQLRules from your local database.
• Terms of Use

Deprecated versions:

• SQLRules V1 standalone application

Retired versions:

• REST API V3
• SQLFpc REST API V2
• SQLMutation REST API V2