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# Rails developers have long had bad experiences with fixtures for
# several reasons, including misuse.
# 
# Misuse of fixtures is characterized by having a huge number of them, 
# requiring the developer to maintain a lot of data and creating dependencies 
# between tests. In my experience working (and rescuing) many applications, 80%
# of fixtures are only used by 20% of tests.
#
# An example of such tests is one assuring that a given SQL query with
# GROUP BY and ORDER BY conditions returns the correct result set. As expected,