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friendsofcake/fixturize
=======================

CakePHP Fixture classes to help increase productivity or performance

3.0.1(1y ago)24520.3k↓37.8%13[2 issues](https://github.com/FriendsOfCake/fixturize/issues)[2 PRs](https://github.com/FriendsOfCake/fixturize/pulls)1MITPHPPHP &gt;=8.1

Since Jul 5Pushed 1y ago7 watchersCompare

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Installation
============

[](#installation)

```
composer require friendsofcake/fixturize

```

Introduction
============

[](#introduction)

The fixturize plugin will help improve performance of your fixture based tests.

This plugin currently only work with MySQL/MariaDB/Percona databases.

Usage
=====

[](#usage)

Instead of

`use Cake\TestSuite\Fixture\TestFixture;`

simply use

`use FriendsOfCake\Fixturize\TestSuite\Fixture\ChecksumTestFixture as TestFixture;`

Re-run your tests and enjoy the speed!

Real life improvements
======================

[](#real-life-improvements)

  Who \# Tests Before After    Bownty Content Importer 364 15s 5s   Apacta REST API (110 fixtures) 318 180s 30s  Feel free to submit your own results above.

###  Health Score

49

—

FairBetter than 94% of packages

Maintenance30

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity47

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community27

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity79

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor3

3 contributors hold 50%+ of commits

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~246 days

Recently: every ~0 days

Total

13

Last Release

693d ago

Major Versions

1.0.3 → 2.0.0-beta2020-02-17

2.0.1 → 3.0.02023-10-13

1.x-dev → 2.0.22024-08-09

2.x-dev → 3.0.12024-08-09

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/22841?v=4)[Christian Winther](/maintainers/jippi)[@jippi](https://github.com/jippi)

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5203126?v=4)[Friends Of Cake](/maintainers/FriendsOfCake)[@FriendsOfCake](https://github.com/FriendsOfCake)

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Tags

testingphpunitFixturefixturesperformancecakephpunittest

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