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At the moment fixtures are loaded all at once, this is hardly a problem for smalish data sets and a few unit tests.

Test speed could be improved a lot by only loading the relevant fixtures.

But besides that there is another advantage. By postponing loading things like named keys can be introduced:

shops.json

{
    "shop_id": <?php echo $this->setKey("amazon.de", 1); ?>
}

pages.json

[
{
   "page_id" : 1
   "shop_id": <?php echo $this->key("shops", "amazon.de"); ?>
}
]

We are currently using this to provide a base dataset for our unit tests. For some tests we need very diverse data which is hard to create and manage, so I'm thinking to add seeding like functionality where you can add partial specifications and then have the class fill in the missing parts based on the schema.

It could be a compact format like this one inspired by zen-coding:

products*3>offerings[price:10..20]*3

or something more verbose using nested arrays.

I can provide more examples on request.

Do you find this useful?

How are you generating the json files?