> Much faster than running the same tests on my local machine as well. That sounds odd. Usually, while developing, running the whole test suite is unnecessary.

> Much faster than running the same tests on my local machine as well. That sounds odd. Usually, while developing, running the whole test suite is unnecessary. So running tests is very fast, as long as you only run the tests that may fail after recent changes. At least that's my experience. > not need to commit such large amounts of data that it becomes a problem Not sure what you mean here. Mind clarifying ? > if you are working remote it's expected that you have a stable, decent, connection Definitely ! And 90% of the time I do have a stable connection. But that 10% where I don't (because the wifi breaks down, or I'm on a train to a nearby town), having a remote environment would not work. That's my use case for having a local environment. > For documentation I actually keep that local using https://devdocs.io/ https://devdocs.io/. Wow, that's cool ! I wasn't aware it worked offline ! Will definitely have a look at this. Thanks :)