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> Yeah, and typically you'd run them after you run unit and integration tests. If I have 10 libraries to test that have database access, I have to run 10 database containers simultaneously every few minutes as part of the development process? That's overkill.

If it's actually causing you problems, then by all means replace some of them with more lightweight tests, at the cost of some test environment faithfulness. But don't optimise prematurely.



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