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testfixtures

A collection of helpers and mock objects that are useful when writing automated tests in Python.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

testfixtures has 4.6M monthly downloads and 243 GitHub stars. Version 12.2.0 supports Python 3.11+, first published in 2008.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.

It is built on top of typing-extensions. It is used by 41 tracked packages, including approvaltests, edx-enterprise and pytest-golden.

Downloads
Day
90.0K
Week
595.6K
Month
4.6M
Stars
243
Forks
61
Issues
3
Version
12.2.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
51
Adoption
60
Community
60
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
5 days ago
Monthly downloads
4,566,644
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
4,566,644
Stars
243
Stars per 1k downloads
0.05
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
• Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
85,093
Month daily avg
152,221
Momentum
-44.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.11
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
16 days ago
Total releases
145
Releases/year
8.2
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
• Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
31
Monthly downloads
4,566,644
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
57
 
Issue Burden
12.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
50.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 44.4K
Windows 804
macOS 682

Python Versions

3.11
51.8% 20.0K
3.10
25.0% 9.7K
3.12
12.8% 4.9K
3.13
5.7% 2.2K
3.9
4.7% 1.8K

Top Countries

1. US US
23.8K
2. SG SG
14.3K
3. IE IE
1.4K
4. JP JP
764
5. GB GB
641
6. DE DE
631
7. BE BE
545
8. CA CA
535
9. CN CN
458
10. HK HK
396

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
November 26, 2008
Last Release
2 weeks ago
Last Commit
6 days ago
Latest Version
12.2.0
Total Releases
145
Contributors
31
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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