in reply to Test Technique: Self-removing test data
Couldn't you clean-up the database through the use of transactions? Just by failing to commit the changes made to the database (e.g. when the test dies) or expressly rolling-back the changes? Of course not all databases support transactions and if you wish to test something which already uses transactions, you are out of luck.
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