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Come up with a better way to include pickled objects

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#562 opened on Apr 11, 2015

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Having to update the pickle file for many PRs creates a lot of git noise, e.g. Showing with 47,571 additions and 166,770 deletions. for a simple change. Is there no alternative to this? Perhaps we could move those tests into the test harness or something?

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Investigate alternatives to storing pickled test data, such as generating test data programmatically or using text based formats like JSON or YAML.
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python
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backend
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Refactor
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