Pre-emptively prevent test fixtures from lingering global state #616
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`count=2` is very effective at sniffing out global state/singletons that don't get unset properly by a test's cleanup. We started doing this at a previous employer and discovered all sorts of tests that were leaving global singleton artifacts around and other tests had started to depend on them... it took a while to untangle, but we were very glad once we finally got through it.
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count=2is very effective at sniffing out global state/singletons that don't get unset properly by a test's cleanup.We started doing this at a previous employer and discovered all sorts of tests that were leaving global singleton artifacts around and other tests had started to depend on them... it took a while to untangle, but we were very glad once we finally got through it.