maybe this

Author: philipithomas

.travis.yml

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 dist: trusty
-sudo: false
-group: edge
+sudo: required
 language: python
 python:
   - '2.7'
@@ -17,12 +16,12 @@ env:
   global:
     - ENV=test
     - PYTHONPATH="$TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR"
-    - TEST_DATABASE_URL="mysql://root:@localhost/test"
+    - TEST_DATABASE_URL="mysql://travis@localhost/test"
 before_install:
-  - mysql -u root -e 'CREATE DATABASE test;'
+  - mysql -e 'CREATE DATABASE test;'
 install:
   - make build
   - make db-deploy
   - python test-sudo.py
   - python main.py runtestserver&
-script: make test
+script: make test