Use Evolutions. Write a setup and teardown script for the fixtures in SQL, or use mysqldump (or equivalent for your DB) to export an existing test DB as sql. http://www.playframework.org/documentation/1.2/evolutions I find the most stress-free way to do testing is to set everything up in an in-memory database which means tests run fast and drive the tests from Java using JUnit. I use H2DB, but the
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