Is there a cache system that can be used for tests?

[VincentClair]

Hello,

Running tests with fixtures are really slow. There could be some optimization adding a cache between each load, so there is no need to rerun full Alice fixtures, but just inject SQL queries result from cache.

Something similar is done actually for fixtures objects in https://github.com/liip/LiipFunctionalTestBundle, but not for files. As their v2 alpha don't support it, I already notice it here: liip/LiipFunctionalTestBundle#476.

I don't know if its related to your bundle or their, but do you plan to add some cache ?
Thanks for your help.

[theofidry]

If one wishes to introduce a back-up like solution here I'm fine with it.

I personally don't have any plan for a cache layer of some sorts. The main bottleneck I can see so far is the ORM for which the simplest solution IMO is to:

• have small fixture set, as I prefer to have a small dedicated fixture set per feature/scenario
• leverage transactions to avoid truncating the whole DB or dropping/re-creating the schema

I'm aware of a couple of other solutions, but since I personally don't have any use for it I don't really feel the need to work on them. I'll however gladly consider any PR for it