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+<?php
+
+/* Icinga Web 2 | (c) 2022 Icinga GmbH | GPLv2+ */
+
+namespace Icinga\Test;
+
+use Icinga\Authentication\Role;
+use Icinga\User;
+use Icinga\Util\DBUtils;
+use Icinga\Web\Dashboard\Dashboard;
+use Icinga\Web\Dashboard\DashboardHome;
+use ipl\Sql\Connection;
+use Mockery;
+use PDO;
+
+class BaseDashboardTestCase extends BaseTestCase
+{
+    const TEST_HOME = 'Test Home';
+
+    /** @var Dashboard */
+    protected $dashboard;
+
+    /** @var User A test user for the dashboards */
+    protected $user;
+
+    public function setUp(): void
+    {
+        parent::setUp();
+
+        DBUtils::setConn($this->getDBConnection());
+        $this->dashboard = new Dashboard();
+        $this->dashboard->setUser($this->getUser());
+    }
+
+    protected function tearDown(): void
+    {
+        parent::tearDown();
+        Mockery::close(); // Necessary because some tests run in a separate process
+    }
+
+    protected function setupIcingaMock()
+    {
+        $moduleMock = Mockery::mock('Icinga\Application\Modules\Module');
+        $searchUrl = (object) array(
+            'title' => 'Hosts',
+            'url'   => 'monitoring/list/hosts?sort=host_severity&limit=10'
+        );
+        $moduleMock->shouldReceive('getSearchUrls')->andReturn(array(
+            $searchUrl
+        ));
+        $moduleMock->shouldReceive('getName')->andReturn('test');
+        $moduleMock->shouldReceive('getDashboard')->andReturn([]);
+        $moduleMock->shouldReceive('getDashlets')->andReturn([]);
+
+        $moduleManagerMock = Mockery::mock('Icinga\Application\Modules\Manager');
+        $moduleManagerMock->shouldReceive('getLoadedModules')->andReturn(array(
+            'test-module' => $moduleMock
+        ));
+
+        $bootstrapMock = parent::setupIcingaMock();
+        $bootstrapMock->shouldReceive('getModuleManager')->andReturn($moduleManagerMock);
+
+        return $bootstrapMock;
+    }
+
+    protected function getDBConnection(): Connection
+    {
+        $conn = new Connection([
+            'db'      => 'sqlite',
+            'dbname'  => ':memory:',
+            'options' => [
+                PDO::ATTR_DEFAULT_FETCH_MODE => PDO::FETCH_OBJ
+            ]
+        ]);
+
+        $fixtures = @file_get_contents(__DIR__ . '/fixtures.sql');
+        $conn->exec($fixtures);
+
+        return $conn;
+    }
+
+    protected function getUser(): User
+    {
+        if ($this->user === null) {
+            $role = new Role();
+            $role->setPermissions(['*']);
+
+            $this->user = new User('test');
+            $this->user->setRoles([$role]);
+        }
+
+        return $this->user;
+    }
+
+    protected function getTestHome(string $name = self::TEST_HOME)
+    {
+        return new DashboardHome($name);
+    }
+}
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