Running the test suite via python setup.py test appears to require a pre-existing database to work with.
Is there a subset of the tests that don't have that requirement, i.e. that either create and use a temporary database, or that perform some other simple checks just to verify that the build succeeded ?

I couldn't find any test instruction in https://github.com/oracle/python-cx_Oracle/blob/master/README.md or elsewhere.

Thanks,
Stefan