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Best practices for organizing pytest fixtures in large test suites?I'm working on a fairly large test project (~500 tests across 3 microservices) and our conftest.py files are getting…
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Managing test data in pytest — factory pattern, fixtures, or external files?As our API test suite grows I'm realising ad-hoc test data in each test function is a maintenance nightmare. Three…
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