This is a big one. A term of art for this is "General Fixture", and for xUnit type testing I consider it to be an anti-pattern. There's times when a big test f

This is a big one. A term of art for this is "General Fixture", and for xUnit type testing I consider it to be an anti-pattern. There's times when a big test fixture can provide value, but it's very context dependent and almost never for smaller/micro tests.