[TYPO3-team-templavoila] Unit tests on test-database - any suggestions? (#11173 )

[Tolleiv Nietsch]

Steffen Kamper schrieb:
> Hi Tolleiv,
> 
> i think it can be solved without a Test-DB in Live-DB. Why not creating 
> new records with simply new uid?
> 
> vg Steffen

Hi ~ why not just create a clean instant dummy-database ;)

I just don't feel very comfortable to run these tests on the Live-DB. 
Usually you will run them only on a test /dev-system, but sometimes even 
these test/ dev-systems hold some important data (maybe a client's 
project 2 days before the launch and you just want to check whether the 
last-minute fix you made was fine).
Technically I would agree and to just create new records with a few new 
uids, but what if there's a fatal-error within the test execution? I'm 
sure we all have seen these old records lying around in our system and 
the way how our current tests solve this problem isn't very clean and 
doesn't work very smooth.
Another problem is that if every test run's on it's own DB there's no 
chance that they can have an effect on each other.


vg Tolleiv