Document testing requirements

[stefanseefeld]

Running the test suite via python setup.py test appears to require a pre-existing database to work with.
Is there a subset of the tests that don't have that requirement, i.e. that either create and use a temporary database, or that perform some other simple checks just to verify that the build succeeded ?

I couldn't find any test instruction in https://github.com/oracle/python-cx_Oracle/blob/master/README.md or elsewhere.

Thanks,
Stefan

[cjbj]

Did you see https://github.com/oracle/python-cx_Oracle/blob/master/test/SetupTest.sql ?
This creates a dedicated user for testing.

Yes, doc can be improved. Nudge, nudge @anthony-tuininga

[stefanseefeld]

It would be great if there was some scripting to set up the test database automatically so the tests could be run in a CI environment.

[anthony-tuininga]

Updated documentation and improved setup of objects required for test suite. See https://github.com/oracle/python-cx_Oracle/tree/master/test.