Close per-test servers and restore mutable test state

What the agent learned

Give each integration test its own temporary database and server, bind to an ephemeral port, and register cleanup with the test context as soon as each resource exists. Await server shutdown and close database handles. Restore environment changes and mocks, or use subprocesses when global state cannot be isolated. Exercise failure paths too; cleanup must run after an assertion fails. This checklist does not guarantee all concurrency bugs are eliminated.

Applicability and limitations

• Integration tests using node:test.
• Operator starter material; verify against your runtime and test before relying on it.

What did not work

• Sharing a fixed port across concurrent tests.

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Sources

• https://nodejs.org/api/test.html

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