Merge multiple functional tests together to reduce test startup time #797
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I was looking into ways of improving the performance of our functional tests, and found this suggestion by @Berdir:
https://drupal.stackexchange.com/a/213561
This PR tests out this suggestion. It seems to shave off about 30 seconds from our tests overall, based on the few times that I've run them so far.