more reasonable name

folder contains all test resources, not just reference results

.gitattributes

@@ -12,12 +12,12 @@
 *.pbz2 binary
 
 # ignore files from MSC.Marc in language statistics
-install/MarcMentat/**     linguist-vendored
-src/Marc/include/*             linguist-vendored
+install/MarcMentat/** linguist-vendored
+src/Marc/include/* linguist-vendored
 install/MarcMentat/MSC_modifications.py linguist-vendored=false
 
 # ignore reference files for tests in language statistics
-python/tests/reference/**           linguist-vendored
+python/tests/resources/** linguist-vendored
 
 # ignore deprecated scripts
-processing/legacy/**                linguist-vendored
+processing/legacy/** linguist-vendored

python/tests/conftest.py

@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ def update(request):
 
 
 @pytest.fixture
-def ref_path_base():
-    """Directory containing reference results."""
-    return Path(__file__).parent/'reference'
+def res_path_base():
+    """Directory containing testing resources."""
+    return Path(__file__).parent/'resources'
 
 
 @pytest.fixture