Simpletest Conundrum

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In Drupal 7, I have a requirement to simpletest a functional group of
methods... one test comprised of about 1800 subtest permutations.

The issue I have is that these are back-end functions with no UI
interaction, yet simpletest unit test, from what I read, does not provide
the functionality for accessing the db, creating test tables and data, etc.

Do I fudge it by having a menu callback, or by having an admin page with a
button if necessary, so that I can webtest, or do I manually include
db.inc, etc. so that I can access the db, (though I think it would need to
be much dirtier than that)?

Jeff

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does not provide the functionality for accessing the db, creating test tabl=
es and data, etc.</div><div><br></div><div>Do I fudge it by having a menu c=
allback, or by having an admin page with a button if necessary, so that I c=
an webtest, or do I manually include db.inc, etc. so that I can access the =
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coder.com</a> / <a href=3D"http://ayendesigns.com" target=3D"_blank">ayende=
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