Functional testing without recreating the environment from scratch, how?

Question

Yii

Using Yii2, I need to create functional testing, but I can't figure out how to set up Codecept so that it uses all the settings from the console application.
I'm going to conduct testing on a real base, because. The main function of the application is to generate a report based on data from the database. I'm going to get data from a SQL database with a query and then compare it to the results generated by the application.
Maybe I'm using the wrong tool?

Answer 1

As I understand it , it
is enough to specify the connection settings to the real database, and in codeception.yml specify

modules:
    config:
        Db:
            populate: false
            cleanup: false

Answer 2

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