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A full library to create dynamic model instances for testing purposes.

Motivation

It is a TERRIBLE practice to use STATIC data in tests.
Create dynamic fixture for each model is boring and it produces a lot of replicated code.
It is a bad idea to use uncontrolled data in tests, like random data.

We tried to use another fixture tools in a big Django project but the experience was not satisfactory.
Either they are incomplete, or bugged or it produces erratic tests, because they use random and uncontrolled data.
Also, the syntax of others tools is too verbose, which polutes the tests.
Complete, lean and practice documentation.
It is hard to debug tests with another tools.
List of other tools: http://djangopackages.com/grids/g/fixtures

Highly customizable: you can customize fields recursively
Deal with unique=True
Deal with cyclic dependencies (including self references)
Deal with many to many relationship (common M2M or M2M with additional data, i.e. through='table')
Deal with custom fields (specially if the custom field inherit of a django field)
It is supported for parallel tests
Deal with auto calculated attributes
It is easy to debug errors

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