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3.9Key Takeaways
- Direct SQL is the fastest way to create test data
- Always clean up in reverse dependency order (children before parents)
- Transaction rollback is the cleanest test isolation pattern
- Use identifiable prefixes for test data (
test-*,auto-*) - Never run write operations against production — use read-only credentials
- For API-created data that cannot be rolled back, use cleanup fixtures