@MalcolmEvershed is correct here.  I'm taking a guess here, but I think the above code was created to simplify your development effort only. In the "official" test-run, the test implementation will be executed against a table that has been created by the scripts in the `config` directory.

See for instance the following line as a comparison: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/master/config/create.sql#L58