Backend tests gets resources db file

hitier
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tests/backend_tests.py
+import os
+import sys
 import unittest
+from shutil import copyfile
 from pdc_config import TestConfig
 from app import create_app, db_mgr, db
@@ -7,18 +10,29 @@ from app.auth.models import User
 class BaseTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
     def setUp(self):
-        # configure data base
+        # initialise app
         self.app = create_app(TestConfig)
+
+        # copy resource  demo db to test file
+        appdir = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), os.pardir)
+        sqlite_file_name = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(appdir, 'resources', 'lesia-btp.sqlite'))
+        if not os.path.isdir(self.app.instance_path):
+            os.mkdir(self.app.instance_path)
+        self.db_path = os.path.join(self.app.instance_path, 'test.db')
+        copyfile(sqlite_file_name, self.db_path)
+
+        # force db path to newly create file
+        self.app.config.update(
+            SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI='sqlite:///' + self.db_path
+        )
+
+        # update flask context
         self.app_context = self.app.app_context()
         self.app_context.push()
-        # TODO: shall we always copy db from resources sqlite file ?
-        #       that would allow us to run all tests in sqlite:memory:
-        # db.create_all()
-        # admin = User(email='admin@nowhere.org', name='admin', login='admin', password='admin', role='admin')
-        # db.session.add(admin)
-        # db.session.commit()
     def tearDown(self):
+        if os.path.isfile(self.db_path):
+            os.remove(self.db_path)
         self.app_context.pop()
     def test_always_true(self):