diff --git a/t/etc/schema.pl b/t/etc/schema.pl
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+use Modern::Perl;
+
+return {
+    schema_class => 'Koha::Schema',
+#  This is the default option when nothing is defined
+#  connect_info => ['dbi:SQLite:dbname=:memory:','',''],
+    connect_opts => { name_sep => '.', quote_char => '`', sqlite_unicode => 1 },
+    fixture_class => '::Populate',
+};