Large-Scale Test Management

Strategies and patterns for managing thousands of SQL tests across teams.

Organization

• Group tests by domain (customer, orders, finance) and by frequency (smoke, daily, weekly).
• Use consistent naming and folder conventions to make ownership clear.

Execution Planning

• Run fast smoke suites on every commit; run heavier integrity suites nightly.
• Shard large suites by subsuite across CI jobs to keep wall-clock low.

Governance

• Require code reviews for test additions/changes.
• Track flaky tests and quarantine with a plan to fix.

Reporting

• Publish JUnit XML to your CI test report UI.
• Export failing rows to Excel for stakeholders who prefer spreadsheets.