This is probably not a "tip" or a "technique", but I thought that it would be interesting.
For some work that I am doing for WikiMedia, I needed to automate triple store testing. I found the BorderCloud Tests for Triplestore (TFT). I forked their repos on GitHub, and made some changes to get everything to run locally.
All the details and results are discussed on my WikiTech page, User:AndreaWest/WDQS Testing/Running TFT - Wikitech.
Here are Stardog's results:
+-------------------------------------------------+-------+
| out | cnt |
+-------------------------------------------------+-------+
| http://www.w3.org/ns/earl#passed | 681 |
| http://www.w3.org/ns/earl#failed | 23 |
| http://www.w3.org/ns/earl#error | 12 |
| http://www.w3.org/ns/earl#untested | 152 |
+-------------------------------------------------+-------+
Query returned 4 results in 00:00:00.136
Andrea