diff --git a/tests/test_framework/phpbb_database_test_case.php b/tests/test_framework/phpbb_database_test_case.php
index 60ac68e7b8..157982ff3c 100644
--- a/tests/test_framework/phpbb_database_test_case.php
+++ b/tests/test_framework/phpbb_database_test_case.php
@@ -21,6 +21,12 @@ abstract class phpbb_database_test_case extends PHPUnit_Extensions_Database_Test
 
 	protected $fixture_xml_data;
 
+	static protected $schema_file;
+
+	static protected $phpbb_schema_copy;
+
+	static protected $install_schema_file;
+
 	public function __construct($name = NULL, array $data = array(), $dataName = '')
 	{
 		parent::__construct($name, $data, $dataName);
@@ -38,6 +44,54 @@ abstract class phpbb_database_test_case extends PHPUnit_Extensions_Database_Test
 		$this->db_connections = array();
 	}
 
+	/**
+	* @return array List of extensions that should be set up
+	*/
+	static protected function setup_extensions()
+	{
+		return array();
+	}
+
+	static public function setUpBeforeClass()
+	{
+		$schema_md5 = md5(serialize(static::setup_extensions()));
+
+		self::$schema_file = __DIR__ . '/schemas/' . $schema_md5 . '.json';
+		self::$phpbb_schema_copy = __DIR__ . '/schemas/schema_phpbb_copy.json';
+		self::$install_schema_file = __DIR__ . '/../../../../../install/schemas/schema.json';
+
+		if (!file_exists(self::$schema_file))
+		{
+			global $phpbb_root_path, $phpEx, $table_prefix;
+
+			$finder = new \phpbb\extension\finder(new phpbb_testcase_extension_manager(static::setup_extensions()), new \phpbb\filesystem(), $phpbb_root_path);
+			$classes = $finder->core_path('phpbb/')
+				->core_directory('db/migration/data')
+				->extension_directory('migrations')
+				->get_classes();
+
+			$db = new \phpbb\db\driver\sqlite();
+			$schema_generator = new \phpbb\db\migration\schema_generator($classes, new \phpbb\config\config(array()), $db, new \phpbb\db\tools($db, true), $phpbb_root_path, $phpEx, $table_prefix);
+			$schema_data = $schema_generator->get_schema();
+
+			$fp = fopen(self::$schema_file, 'wb');
+			fwrite($fp, json_encode($schema_data));
+			fclose($fp);
+		}
+
+		copy(self::$install_schema_file, self::$phpbb_schema_copy);
+		copy(self::$schema_file, self::$install_schema_file);
+
+		parent::setUpBeforeClass();
+	}
+
+	static public function tearDownAfterClass()
+	{
+		copy(self::$phpbb_schema_copy, self::$install_schema_file);
+
+		parent::tearDownAfterClass();
+	}
+
 	protected function tearDown()
 	{
 		parent::tearDown();
diff --git a/tests/test_framework/phpbb_functional_test_case.php b/tests/test_framework/phpbb_functional_test_case.php
index 182ffaaaf7..110c84927c 100644
--- a/tests/test_framework/phpbb_functional_test_case.php
+++ b/tests/test_framework/phpbb_functional_test_case.php
@@ -64,6 +64,14 @@ class phpbb_functional_test_case extends phpbb_test_case
 		}
 	}
 
+	/**
+	* @return array List of extensions that should be set up
+	*/
+	static protected function setup_extensions()
+	{
+		return array();
+	}
+
 	public function setUp()
 	{
 		parent::setUp();
@@ -81,6 +89,23 @@ class phpbb_functional_test_case extends phpbb_test_case
 		$this->lang = array();
 		$this->add_lang('common');
 		$this->purge_cache();
+
+		$db = $this->get_db();
+
+		foreach (static::setup_extensions() as $extension)
+		{
+			$sql = 'SELECT ext_active
+				FROM ' . EXT_TABLE . "
+				WHERE ext_name = '" . $db->sql_escape($extension). "'";
+			$result = $db->sql_query($sql);
+			$status = (bool) $db->sql_fetchfield('ext_active');
+			$db->sql_freeresult($result);
+
+			if (!$status)
+			{
+				$this->install_ext($extension);
+			}
+		}
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -358,6 +383,23 @@ class phpbb_functional_test_case extends phpbb_test_case
 		copy($config_file, $config_file_test);
 	}
 
+	public function install_ext($extension)
+	{
+		$this->login();
+		$this->admin_login();
+
+		$ext_path = str_replace('/', '%2F', $extension);
+
+		$crawler = self::request('GET', 'adm/index.php?i=acp_extensions&mode=main&action=enable_pre&ext_name=' . $ext_path . '&sid=' . $this->sid);
+		$this->assertGreaterThan(0, $crawler->filter('div.errorbox')->count());
+
+		$form = $crawler->selectButton('Enable')->form();
+		$crawler = self::submit($form);
+		$this->assertGreaterThan(0, $crawler->filter('div.successbox')->count());
+
+		$this->logout();
+	}
+
 	static private function recreate_database($config)
 	{
 		$db_conn_mgr = new phpbb_database_test_connection_manager($config);
@@ -714,6 +756,30 @@ class phpbb_functional_test_case extends phpbb_test_case
 		$this->lang = array_merge($this->lang, $lang);
 	}
 
+	protected function add_lang_ext($ext_name, $lang_file)
+	{
+		if (is_array($lang_file))
+		{
+			foreach ($lang_file as $file)
+			{
+				$this->add_lang_ext($ext_name, $file);
+			}
+
+			return;
+		}
+
+		$lang_path = __DIR__ . "/../../phpBB/ext/{$ext_name}/language/en/$lang_file.php";
+
+		$lang = array();
+
+		if (file_exists($lang_path))
+		{
+			include($lang_path);
+		}
+
+		$this->lang = array_merge($this->lang, $lang);
+	}
+
 	protected function lang()
 	{
 		$args = func_get_args();