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		layer8 on Nov 20, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The big TDD misunderstanding (2022) How do you guarantee the database contents is in the right state for the given test? Dropping all tables and recreating them with the respective test data is the only sure way. And if you run tests in parallel, you need parallel database instances.

TylerE on Nov 20, 2023 [–]

With fixturing.

layer8 on Nov 20, 2023 | [–]

That doesn’t explain anything. I’m saying that setting up a new schema would be the fixture.

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