Life-Cycle Events

ColdBox testing leverages TestBox's testing life-cycle events (https://testbox.ortusbooks.com/primers/testbox-bdd-primer/life-cycle-methods) in order to prepare the virtual ColdBox application, request context and then destroy it. By default, a virtual application is loaded for all test cases contained within a test bundle CFC via the beforeAll() and destroyed under afterAll().

function beforeAll(){
    super.beforeAll();
    // do your own stuff here
}

function afterAll(){
    // do your own stuff here
    super.afterAll();
}

Important If you override any of these methods and do not funnel the super call, then you might get cached or unexpected results.

Improving Performance: Unloading ColdBox

The default for integration testing is that the virtual ColdBox application will be destroyed or unloaded in each test. To keep the virtual application running across multiple test bundle tests you will need to use the unloadColdBox=false annotation or the this.unloadColdBox=false setting in your beforeAll() method. This will stop the testing classes from destroying ColdBox and improving performance.

component extends="coldbox.system.testing.BaseTestCase" unloadColdBox=false{
    
    this.unloadColdBox = false;
    
    function beforeAll(){
        super.beforeAll();
        // do your own stuff here
    }
}