Functional test ACLs in Symfony

config_test.yml

doctrine:
    dbal:
        default_connection: default
        connections:
            default:
                driver: pdo_sqlite # or %database_driver%
                path: %kernel.cache_dir%/test.db
            acl:
                driver: pdo_sqlite # or %database_driver%
                path: %kernel.cache_dir%/test.acl.db

security:
    acl:
        connection: acl

MyControllerTest.php

<?php

namespace AcmeBundle\Tests\Controller;

use Liip\LiipFunctionalTestBundle\Test\WebTestCase;

class MyControllerTest extends WebTestCase {
  public function testSomeAclStuff() {
    $this->runCommand('doctrine:database:drop', array('connection' => 'acl', 'force' => true));
    $this->runCommand('init:acl');
    $this->loadFixtures(array('Acme\Bundle\DataFixtures\MyFixture'));

    // .... do your tests
  }
}

If you normally keep your ACLs in the same database as your entities, you may encounter the following error when running your LiipFunctionalTests with init:acl and loadFixtures running in the same test: General error: 17 database schema has changed

To get around this, you can force ACL to use a separate database connection/location.

This will NOT destroy your ACL data with each test however... so you'd have to write a quick function to drop the ACL database in that instance.