Suggestion: Add Fixtureless as test data factory

[jmichelsen]

Location within the Book

• Chapter or Appendix: Chapter 22: Testing
• Section: 3 How to Write Unit Tests
• Subsection: 5 Don't Rely on Fixtures

Description

As another possible test data factory, I suggest you check out Fixtureless: https://github.com/ricomoss/django-fixtureless

It is actively maintained and has a lot of community involvement as well as enterprise use-cases driving its features and enhancements.

[pydanny]

Fixtureless looks interesting, and I do like how it has less magic than the more popular alternatives.

That said, we've never used it before, or even heard of it. It would be irresponsible of us to include a critical package without a full evaluation. And I don't think we'll have the liberty in the next week or so to properly explore it.

Odds are it won't make it into the 1.11 version of TSD.

[jmichelsen]

Understandable, but now you've heard of it ;)