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I have forgotten the term for a class that provides pre-canned objects for use as test data.
e.g. If I'm testing a payment module and I need credit card objects of different types, I might have a class in my test scope called CreditCard__something__ with static members or factory methods for creating cards of different flavours.
What is this term?
Fixtures.
The setUp and tearDown methods are for creating or cleaning up your fixtures. If they live in memory, cleanup is easy, but if your fixtures live in the database, then both setting them up and tearing them down can be a little more involved.
