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Note that opening issues for specific better tooling is welcome, and
code implementing that tooling is even more welcome :-).
+### Resource usage ###
+When writing tests, resources used in the tests should be chosen specifically and sanely quanified.
+
+Therefore it is important to use resources that are:
+1. appropriate to the test
+2. inexpensive (containing little or no overhead)
+3. create just as many an needed, no more
+4. should be cleaned up at the end of the tests's run
+
+For example:
+1. only using the resource type which is appropriate to the `test/e2e//`
+2. the resource type `ConfigMap` is inexpensive, common, and stateless. It should be used for such things as fetching created resources
+3. although the clusters used for testing are generally beefy, an overamount of resources should not be created as it is unnecessary
+4. using afterEach, make sure that your test destroys any resources leftover from the test
+