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I'm writing an application that is using Drupal APIs to connect to an external database and doing a bunch of stuff with this data (reading/writing/deleting). I was wondering if there are any best practices for writing simpletests in Drupal 7 with this kind of application. I know simpletest basically installs a new instance of Drupal, then uses this sandbox environment to do testing. However none of the schema for this external database is defined in drupal.

Any tips on how I can test against this database, and not have a bunch of left over data when tests complete?

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User the setUp and tearDown methods to setup and tear down your external db.

A typical thing would be to write code that first empties the db and then populates it with the test data.

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