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+const cds = require("@sap/cds");
+const { expect } = cds.test(
+  "serve",
+  "CatalogService",
+  "--from",
+  "@capire/bookshop,@capire/common",
+  "--in-memory"
+);
+
+describe("Consuming actions locally", () => {
+  let cats, CatalogService, Books, stockBefore;
+  const BOOK_ID = 251;
+  const QUANTITY = 1;
+
+  before("bootstrap the database", async () => {
+    CatalogService = cds.services.CatalogService;
+    expect(CatalogService).not.to.be.undefined;
+
+    Books = CatalogService.entities.Books;
+    expect(Books).not.to.be.undefined;
+
+    cats = await cds.connect.to("CatalogService");
+  });
+
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    // Read the stock before the action is called
+    stockBefore = (await cats.get(Books, BOOK_ID)).stock;
+  });
+
+  it("calls unbound actions - basic variant using srv.send", async () => {
+    // Use a managed transaction to create a continuation with an authenticated user
+    const res1 = await cats.tx({ user: "alice" }, () => {
+      return cats.send("submitOrder", { book: BOOK_ID, quantity: QUANTITY });
+    });
+    expect(res1.stock).to.eql(stockBefore - QUANTITY);
+  });
+
+  it("calls unbound actions - named args variant", async () => {
+    // Use a managed transaction to create a continuation with an authenticated user
+    const res2 = await cats.tx({ user: "alice" }, () => {
+      return cats.submitOrder({ book: BOOK_ID, quantity: QUANTITY });
+    });
+    expect(res2.stock).to.eql(stockBefore - QUANTITY);
+  });
+
+  it("calls unbound actions - positional args variant", async () => {
+    // Use a managed transaction to create a continuation with an authenticated user
+    const res3 = await cats.tx({ user: "alice" }, () => {
+      return cats.submitOrder(BOOK_ID, QUANTITY);
+    });
+    expect(res3.stock).to.eql(stockBefore - QUANTITY);
+  });
+});