Fixtures vs Factories? When to use each?

[pinzonjulian]

This is a topic I haven't been able to wrap my head around when creating a healthy test suite.

Fixtures seem to have been banned from the internet but I've seen big companies talking about how a combination of both can create a test suite that is both performant and easy to use.

What's the secret? What should be a fixture and what should be a factory?

It'd be awesome to see someone give a talk about this topic

[map7]

Here is a blog post which I found which might answer some of these questions (or raise more questions) https://blog.quantic.edu/2015/01/28/fixturies-the-speed-of-fixtures-and-the-maintainability-of-factories/

[pinzonjulian]

Thanks for the post @map7 ! I still have a ton of questions though 😂

[optimistic-updt]

@pinzonjulian Where do you sit with this these days? can you now do a talk about it :P

[pinzonjulian]

@optimistic-updt Still confused 😂