[Libreoffice-qa] automated testing of Base

[Caolán McNamara]

On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 14:50 -0400, Terrence Enger wrote:
> I am wondering about the possibility of automated testing of
> Base, particularly ODBC functionality.
> 
> The first question here is how to attach LibreOffice to a
> database for the tests.

...

> Locally installed databases raise questions, and the only
> answers that come to mind boil down to a poor man's
> substitute for an ODBC data source plus a driver manager
> plus who-knows-what.  Is there anything here worth thinking
> about?

I've wondered about e.g. using virtual box appliance's. Install Linux
under vbox, stick pre-installed postgres, mysql whatever else is
possible, onto it with pre configured databases of test data.

C.