How do I get ddsteps to insert Date & Time values in its test data sets?

Question

Currently I am using DDsteps as a datadriven testing framework for my unit tests. It works quite well, except when inserting DateTime data into the database.

Example data input row (stored in excel):

APS_ID

99${my.unique_four_digits}

APS_LOGIN_DT

3/21/2007 8:52

DDsteps will generate this SQL to load the date time field:

• insert into MySchema.Applications (APS_ID, APS_LOGIN_DT) values (?, ?)
• insert into MySchema.Applications (APS_ID, APS_LOGIN_DT) values ('993919', '2007-03-21')

How do I get DDsteps to recognize the time stamp on the input data row?

updated:

• www.ddsteps.org
• These data driven tests are run against an oracle database

Answer 1

A quick look at the DDSteps site and it looks to be using DbUnit under the hood. Do you mind if I ask what database server you are using? I had to use the OracleDataTypeFactory to get DbUnit to accept date times.