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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
338 pages
8h 16m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Cleaning the Database with Truncation

Truncating the database before each scenario is a brute-force technique, and the main drawback is that it’s generally slower than rolling back a transaction. This is why the transactional approach is typically preferable if you can get away with it. The advantage of truncation is that it’s a cleaning strategy that works reliably when we have more than one database connection, since no transactions are used. Let’s modify our cleaning strategy and see how it compares. This is a simple change in our KnowsTheDomain class, shown in the following code.

databases/07/src/test/java/support/KnowsTheDomain.java
 
public​ KnowsTheDomain() {
 
if​ (!Base.hasConnection()){
 
Base.open(
 
"com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"​,
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