Test Database

The test database used by Pytest will be automatically set up the first time pytest is run. The test database mirrors E12's database, applying the same migrations and seeding functions, including:

• Seeding Cases
• Seeding Groups & Permissions

This initial setup is scoped to once per session and persists between subsequent test runs. In practice, this means the first time you run pytest, it may take a few minutes to set up, but subsequent runs should be much quicker as the pre-seeded database will be used.

Conservative Database Access

By default, Pytest does not allow database access in its tests.

If you require a test to access the database, mark it with the @pytest.mark.django_db decorator.

Alternatively, you can feed it in as a fixture. However, we only use marks for consistency.