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Run \Drupal\Tests\BrowserTestBase with SQLite

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As part of the push to deprecate SimpleTest and use PHPUnit as the test runner in Drupal 8, there is the \Drupal\Tests\BrowserTestBase class. The BrowserTestBase provides a Mink runner that tests web pages in Drupal. Unlike kernel tests, which require a database and can be run via PHPUnit as well, browser tests use your default database connection. I prefer to run my tests with SQLite as I do not need to have my Docker containers running.

The simplest solution I have found, thus far, is to check the HTTP_USER_AGRENT

if ($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] == 'Drupal command line') {
    $databases['default']['default'] = array(
      'driver' => 'sqlite',
      'database' => '/tmp/test.sqlite',
      'namespace' => 'Drupal\\Core\\Database\\Driver\\sqlite',
    );
}

With this, and running php -S localhost:8080 I'm able to write my Drupal Commerce browser tests without having my normal Docker containers running.

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