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The Cucumber for Java Book
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The Cucumber for Java Book

by Seb Rose, Matt Wynne, Aslak Hellesoy
February 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
338 pages
8h 16m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Cleaning the Database with Transactions

This is a clever approach that uses the database’s transaction support in a somewhat unusual way. Before the scenario starts, we start a new database transaction in a @Before hook. Then, our step definitions and application insert and modify data in the database. However, since this is happening in an uncommitted transaction, nothing gets changed in the database until the transaction is committed. Then, when the scenario is over (in an @After hook), we do the opposite. We roll the transaction back! All the data that was modified during the scenario gets lost, and the database is back in its original state. You can see how this works in Figure 4, Database transactions.

Figure 4. Database transactions ...
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