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Managing test data is hard enough without having a clean way of maintaining
fixtures. L<DBIx::Class::EasyFixture> makes it easy to define fixtures.
Different scenarios can be loaded on demand to test different facets of your
system. Fixtures can take a while to write, but once defined, there's less
cutting and pasting of code.

=head1 CREATING YOUR FIXTURE CLASS

To use C<DBIx::Class::EasyFixture>, you must first create a subclass of it.
It's required to define two methods: C<get_fixture> and C<all_fixture_names>.
You may implement those any way you wish and you're not locked into a
particular format. Here's one way to do it, using a big hash (there are plenty
of other ways to do this, but this is easy for a tutorial.

    package My::Fixtures;
    use Moo;    # (Moose is also fine)
    extends 'DBIx::Class::EasyFixture';

    my %definition_for = (
        # keys are fixture names, values are the fixture definitions
    );