Why aren't fixtures co-located with tests?

[supafreq]

I wanted to thank you for pointing me toward your Hifi repo where you implement this pattern at scale- it really helped answer most of my questions. Something I'm still wondering is, is there any reason why your fixtures aren't co-located with their corresponding tests? It would make sense to have them in the shared directory if they were, well, shared, but as it stands right now, they aren't. (I'm aware this is a question directed toward the Hifi repo, but since it's implementing the pattern laid out here, I thought this was the place to ask.)

[PaulRBerg]

It's a good question. It took me a minute to remember why I did it this way.

The fixtures are "shared" because they are all aggregated in one place, in that they all need the same package imported and such. I agree though that this is misleading - it would have made more sense if each individual fixture was used in multiple locations. I might do a refactor someday.