Sparse test fixture

[henrydingliu]

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Additional Context for Reviewers

• I passed tests locally for both code (uv run pytest) and documentation changes (uv run jb build docs --builder=custom --custom-builder=doctest)

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Pyright Type Completeness

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Project (full chainladder package, at this PR's head): 15.0% of exported symbols fully typed (193 / 1289)

	Known	Ambiguous	Unknown	Total
Project (head)	193	110	986	1289

Other symbols referenced but not exported by chainladder: 13

	Known	Ambiguous	Unknown	Total
Other (head)	3	1	9	13

Symbols without documentation:

• Functions without docstring: 314
• Functions without default param: 0
• Classes without docstring: 10

Patch (exported symbols added or changed by this PR): no exported symbol type-completeness changes detected.