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Docs: Mention preference for small, self-contained rule test cases #6887

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In general, in our packages/eslint-plugin/tests/rules/**/*.test.ts tests, I'm under the impression we generally ask for test cases that are single-purpose.

Good:

{
  code: `willCauseComplaint(1);`
  errors: [
    { /* ... */ }
  ]
}

Not so good, should be split up:

{
  code: `
    willCauseComplaint(1);
    willCauseComplaint(2);
  `
  errors: [
    { /* ... */ },
    { /* ... */ }
  ]
}

I see the latter form come up sometimes in PRs. Let's document our preference for the former?

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https://typescript-eslint.io/maintenance/pull-requests

Or perhaps we'd want to split out a page dedicated to good practices for ESLint rule PRs? Since they're such a large percentage of our PRs & have specific practices associated.

Aside: if this is accepted by other maintainers we should file an issue to fix up old test files that violate this preference. E.g. no-floating-promises.test.ts.

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