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title: "CreateTestEnvironment"
generated: true
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<GenerationInfo sourceFile="packages/testing/src/create-test-environment.ts" sourceLine="60" packageName="@vendure/testing" />

Configures a [TestServer](/current/core/reference/typescript-api/testing/test-server#testserver) and a [SimpleGraphQLClient](/current/core/reference/typescript-api/testing/simple-graph-qlclient#simplegraphqlclient) for each of the GraphQL APIs
for use in end-to-end tests. Returns a [TestEnvironment](/current/core/reference/typescript-api/testing/test-environment#testenvironment) object.

*Example*

```ts
import { createTestEnvironment, testConfig } from '@vendure/testing';

describe('some feature to test', () => {

  const { server, adminClient, shopClient } = createTestEnvironment(testConfig);

  beforeAll(async () => {
    await server.init({
        // ... server options
    });
    await adminClient.asSuperAdmin();
  });

  afterAll(async () => {
      await server.destroy();
  });

  // ... end-to-end tests here
});
```

```ts title="Signature"
function createTestEnvironment(config: Required<VendureConfig>): TestEnvironment
```

Parameters

### config

\<MemberInfo kind="parameter" type={`Required<<a href='/current/core/reference/typescript-api/configuration/vendure-config#vendureconfig'>VendureConfig</a>>`} />