Using the test_data dump for local development?

[thewatts]

We already have a relatively extensive set of data for doing local development and QA.

But if the test_data data is good enough to assume and test full system functionality - it seems like it could be a helpful tool in doing local development / QA (instead of custom seeds).

And I think, if anything, it would increase knowledge of the data being used for the test environment.

The only challenge I could see here is the management of timestamps - we're updating timestamps to be relevant from the point of local data seeding - but I suppose we could do that after all the data is imported instead of during the process itself.

Curious as to whether other folks would find that helpful as well.