Re: Testing: Fixtures vs Factories vs ???

I don't think there's one true way. In other words, the answer is "all
of the above," depending on your project and the needs of each
individual test.

It also depends on your code. If you've done TDD, and therefore made
your code easier to test, you can probably do it the simplest way
possible. If you're trying to add coverage after the code is in place,
there's often a large amount of "setup" needed due to model
relationships, and it's easier to just dump everything into fixtures and
write tests to your known data.

There's also a third option, which is to have your tests (or the setUp)
dynamically create data for use by the tests. This is really handy for
things that are easy to test, but can be too much depending on the
design of the code overall.

Shawn

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