fixturecaused
Fixturecaused is a term used in software testing to describe outcomes, failures, or anomalies that arise from the test fixtures themselves rather than from the system under test (SUT). A test fixture encompasses the setup, configuration, data, mocks, stubs, and any external resources required to run a test. When a fault is attributed to the fixture, it is said to be fixture-caused.
The term is informal and used in practice by QA engineers and developers to distinguish fixture-related issues
Common causes include shared mutable state across tests, improper teardown leaving resources allocated, data remnants that
Mitigation strategies focus on test isolation and fixture hygiene: per-test fixtures or fresh instances for each