i've been experimenting with https://github.com/oliyh/fixa which is cool, but it made me wish that such a thing existed in clojure.test directly, so I asked this question on Clojure Q&A: https://ask.clojure.org/index.php/12112/add-clojure-test-api-for-fixtures-on-individual-deftests Please vote for it if you think it's worth pursuing!