Integration Testing best practices

Question

Our team has hundreds of integration tests that hit a database and verify results. I\'ve got two base classes for all the integration tests, one for retrieve-only tests and

Answer 1

We have an SQL Server Express instance with the same DB definition running for every dev machine as part of the dev environment. With Windows authentication the connection strings are stable - no username/password in the string.

What we would really like to do, but haven't yet, is see if we can get our system to run on SQL Server Compact Edition, which is like SQLite with SQL Server's engine. Then we could run them in-memory, and possibly in parallel as well (with multiple processes).