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Archive

For some developers it may be convenient to keep test data in a compressed archive, for example, a Zip archive. This idea is similar to a prototype file repository in that files from the archive have to be uncompressed to a temporary directory before they can be used.

A ``lazy'' approach may not be suitable for this situation. All files from the archive may need to be fully uncompressed before they can be accessed by test cases. (See figure 5).

Figure 5: Archive repository
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