Using DB Transactions to Automatically Rollback Database Changes

Using DB transactions cleans up the database after every test by rolling back the database to the original state before the test started. Therefore, anything added to the database in one test function will not be available for the next function. If you’d like data to be available for all of the tests, see database seeders above.

To activate DB Transactions, simply add the DBTransaction trait to your test class:

namespace Tests;

use StatonLab\TripalTestSuite\TripalTestCase;
use StatonLab\TripalTestSuite\DBTransaction;

class MyTest extends TripalTestCase {
        use DBTransaction;
}

The trait will automatically activate DB transactions and rollback the database when the test is finished.

Warning

Using @dataProvider does not honor database transactions. This means records will persist even if the test class has use DBTransaction;! If your dataProvider creates database records, call it directly in the test function instead of using @dataProvider in you doc block.

Warning

If the code you are testing requires a transaction, Postgres will fail since it does not support nested transactions.