TST: broken off from #32187
troubleshooting an apparently-unrelated Travis failure there
@simonjayhawkins if you're interested in a change of pace from test organization, the Travis failure here is a mystery ive had no luck resolving.  any ideas? hey neat!  any guesses why using the fixture instead of the generator worked? I guess just changed the order/randomness of the tests. I couldn't reproduce the failure locally, but we had a similar issue once before. thanks