Test doubles & fixtures

A step of the Cloud application tree on Gradus, in the Testing & resilience area: Tests, errors, SLOs.

Create fixtures, factories and fakes for external services, so tests run fast and without the network.

Usually comes after: Unit tests.

Leads to: Integration & end-to-end tests, API schema & contract tests.

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Create test fixtures and factory helpers for the core domain objects and fakes for external services, and refactor the existing tests to use them.

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