I tried BP Default Data and it wouldn’t do forum data. But now that I may have forum data, I’ll try it again. The plugin seemed really unfinished.
P.S. Dear bbPress, please let me fix the topic tags in this topic. I never chose a hyphen in “demo-data” and I never capitalized Test Data. You did that crap on your own and now you won’t let me fix it. What the heck.
I think that function should be an GUI option in BuddyPress’ settings page.
But the primary thing that made me give up working on my site was that I was spending a huge amount of time trying to create BuddyPress and bbPress testing data all on my own, including the fact that there’s no way I, a non BuddyPress and bbPress developer, could make sure I covered all elements and do it efficiently. I’m just a webmaster– I am unfit to do work that relies on that much knowledge of BuddyPress and bbPress, and it’s way too much work for me alone anyway since I don’t know the systems that well.