diff --git a/integrationtests/test.sh b/integrationtests/test.sh
index 80a2afe307ab1da628faa39d4ba8ef93bc6959e4..e9a6d757b020ab2a4c9b575ac517bad18d5f9294 100755
--- a/integrationtests/test.sh
+++ b/integrationtests/test.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,14 @@
 #!/bin/bash
+if [ $1 != "-force" ]
+then
+    echo "Warning: for these tests, the whole database is deleted. Do you want to proceed? (yes/exit)"
+    read safety
+    if [ $safety != "yes" ]
+    then
+        echo "Exiting..."
+        exit 0
+    fi
+fi
 OUT=/tmp/crawler.output
 ls 
 cat pycaosdb.ini