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This PR improves test maintainability and onboarding by adding clear, Google-style docstrings to all fixtures in tests/conftest.py and by hardening a few fixtures to avoid brittle behavior and cross-test side effects. No production code behavior is changed — only test utilities and their documentation.

Related issue #137

What I changed

  • Added concise, Google-style docstrings to every @pytest.fixture in tests/conftest.py, including:
    • One-line summary
    • Detailed description (when helpful)
    • Returns: or Yields: section
    • Small Example: blocks for complex fixtures
  • Removed duplicate/stray docstrings and consolidated docstrings so each fixture has a single docstring.
  • Made file loading robust by switching relative file reads to Path(__file__).parent / "data" / ....
  • Prevented accidental cross-test mutation:
    • Use copy.deepcopy in test_allergy_with_reaction and test_medication_with_dosage to avoid mutating fixtures passed as inputs.
  • Fixed doc_ref_without_content to construct DocumentReferenceContent + Attachment (instead of a plain dict) for FHIR object consistency.
  • Ensured config_fixtures yields a temporary config directory and writes representative YAML files used by config-related tests.
  • Removed duplicate real_config_dir definitions (kept the robust implementation that pytest.skips when configs are absent).
  • Added a usage example to cda_adapter docstring.
  • Small type / wording clarifications in docstrings.

Why

  • New contributors (and reviewers) struggled to understand what each fixture provides and when to reuse it.
  • Several fixtures were fragile:
    • Relative paths could fail depending on the working directory.
    • Fixtures that mutated objects handed in by other fixtures could create subtle test ordering bugs.
    • Inconsistent construction of FHIR resources made tests harder to reason about.
  • Improving docstrings + robustness reduces onboarding friction and makes tests safer to edit.

Acceptance criteria

  • ✅ All fixtures now have a docstring with at least a one-line summary, description and Returns/Yields.
  • ✅ Docstrings follow a consistent Google-style structure (one-line summary, body, Returns/Yields, Example where useful).
  • ✅ Related fixtures are referenced in See Also or examples where appropriate.
  • ✅ No behavioral change to production code. Tests are hardened to avoid cross-test mutation and path issues.

Signed-off-by: rohan-019 <rohan18126@gmail.com>
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Hi, @jenniferjiangkells Please review!!

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lgtm

@jenniferjiangkells jenniferjiangkells merged commit 2f114b2 into dotimplement:main Oct 3, 2025
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@rohan-019 rohan-019 deleted the fixtures branch October 4, 2025 05:07
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Add comprehensive docstrings to test fixtures

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