Luca Corbo – · Apr 5, 2012

Drupal: Speed Up Simpletest Tests Usign Live Database

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If you want to speed up Drupal Simpletest bootstrap a simple trick is to use the live database instead of the sandbox enviroment created by Simpletest. To do this simply override setUp and tearDown methods as reported below: <? php class SampleTest extends DrupalWebTestCase { function setUp () { $this -> setup = TRUE ; } function tearDown () { } //Your test here... Please note now you are using…

If you want to speed up Drupal Simpletest bootstrap a simple trick is to use the live database instead of the sandbox enviroment created by Simpletest.

To do this simply override setUp and tearDown methods as reported below:

<?php
class SampleTest extends DrupalWebTestCase {
 function setUp() {
 $this->setup = TRUE;
 }

 function tearDown() {
 }

 //Your test here...

Please note now you are using the live database… so eventual fake contents created by unit tests must be removed manually.

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