Is anyone making extensive use of static fixtures? If so what do you like about them vs. using setUpTestData on dynamically generated models (optionally using something like FactoryBoy to make your fixture code more flexible)? I found static fixtures to be brittle and hard-to-maintain, because you need to manually edit them, or have code to regenerate them, every time your schema changes.

Recently I've been tempted to revisit them and build out a manage.py command to run the domain scenarios that generate these fixtures (to make it easier to keep them up to date), since when testing DB migrations you often actually do want to have stale/old-schema DB state, instead of the default of using the post-migration code to generate your test fixtures. But I'm still not sure I'd prefer them in many tests outside of the migration-testing usecase.