diff --git a/tests/fixtures.py b/tests/fixtures.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..20ff85a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/fixtures.py
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+import contextlib
+
+import _pytest
+import pytest
+
+from keyosk import config
+from keyosk import database
+
+
+@contextlib.contextmanager
+def sqlite_database(tmp_path):
+    """Database context manager for use with other fixtures that add data"""
+
+    sqlite_path = tmp_path / "test.db"
+
+    conf = config.ConfigSerializer().load(
+        {"storage": {"backend": "sqlite", "sqlite": {"path": str(sqlite_path)}}}
+    )
+
+    database.initialize(conf)
+    yield
+    with contextlib.suppress(FileNotFoundError):
+        sqlite_path.unlink()
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
+def demo_database(request, tmp_path_factory):
+    """Generate a database with test data in it for tests"""
+    # The built in tmp_path fixture is function scope so even though we want the ``demo_database``
+    # fixture to be module scope it would end up behaving as if it were function scope because the
+    # database file path would change for every invocation. Thus this fixture simply rebuilds the
+    # tmp_path fixture internally. Relevant source code:
+    # https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/blob/master/src/_pytest/tmpdir.py#L169
+    # pylint: disable=protected-access
+    tmp_path = _pytest.tmpdir._mk_tmp(request, tmp_path_factory)
+
+    with sqlite_database(tmp_path):
+        yield
diff --git a/tests/test_config.py b/tests/test_config.py
index 2882ebf..c4fb69b 100644
--- a/tests/test_config.py
+++ b/tests/test_config.py
@@ -48,10 +48,11 @@ def test_settings():
 
 def test_filepath(tmp_path):
     tmp_file = Path(tmp_path, "conf.toml")
-    os.environ[constants.ENV_CONFIG_PATH] = str(tmp_file)
     with tmp_file.open("w+") as outfile:
         toml.dump(DEMO_CONFIG, outfile)
 
     assert config.load(tmp_file) == config.ConfigSerializer().load(DEMO_CONFIG)
+    os.environ[constants.ENV_CONFIG_PATH] = str(tmp_file)
+    assert config.load() == config.ConfigSerializer().load(DEMO_CONFIG)
     tmp_file.unlink()
     assert config.load(tmp_file) == config.KeyoskConfig()