---
title: "Database Rollback with FIT tests: A nice adaptation"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/1/27/database-rollback-with-fit-tests-a-nice-adaptation.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/1/27/database-rollback-with-fit-tests-a-nice-adaptation.html"
published: "2006-01-27T16:06:00"
updated: "2006-01-27T16:06:00"
tags: ["Agile Related", "Team Agile News"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Tim Gifford liked my solution to Handling Database rollback issues with nit/Integration tests. So he found a way to integrate that method into Fit/Fitness - What'sw Fit ? an acceptance tool which should be more well…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Database Rollback with FIT tests: A nice adaptation

By Roy Osherove January 27, 2006 In [Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related), [Team Agile News](https://osherove.com/blog/category/team-agile-news)

**Historical article** · Originally published January 27, 2006; technical details may be outdated.

[Tim Gifford](http://blogs.giffordconsulting.com/) liked my [solution to Handling Database rollback issues](http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/articles/DbUnitTesting.aspx) with nit/Integration tests. So he [found a way to integrate that method into Fit/Fitness](http://blogs.giffordconsulting.com/archive/2006/01/25/3779.aspx) - What'sw [Fit](http://fit.c2.com/)? an acceptance tool which should be more well known than it is.

If you're using Fit tests in your projects, this is a nice adaptation of the Enterprise services transaction principle for rolling back your database changes.

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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