If available on the machine we are running our tests (which is something we can detect by checking storageConnection system property), we can use the Azure Storage emulator to run snapshot and restore tests which are closer to the test we run today.

According to the source code and the documentation, the storageConnection should contain something like:

Account name: devstoreaccount1
Account key: Eby8vdM02xNOcqFlqUwJPLlmEtlCDXJ1OUzFT50uSRZ6IFsuFq2UVErCz4I6tq/K1SZFPTOtr/KBHBeksoGMGw==