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[Sander van Schouwenburg <sander@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wouter Bolsterlee wrote:
> It looks like the setup and teardown of database connection should be done
> in *test suites*, not in unit tests themselves (if I follow the example
> mentioned in the PHPUnit documentation). However, at this point I don't know
> how to properly create unit test suites (so that you can run *all* tests for
> a module at once, or even *all* tests of *all* modules at once), and how to
> integrate this into the Anewt codebase. I must admit I haven't closely
> looked into this though. Feedback welcome :)
I believe I did this in the PostgreSQL testsuite.
Ideally you want to as much as possible in the testcase setup() method, 
to keep the tests as isolated as possible, but since connecting to a 
database is quite slow and it usually doesn't cause much interference 
between testcases (unless maybe you're checking the connection itself) 
it's something which may be done in the suite setup() method.

-- Sander