Test Data Generator

Test Data Generator is any tool which creates random and/or large quantities data for testing purposes. (Sometimes you don't want pure randomness.)

Important points:

• generated data should look as real as possible
• TestDatabase should be populated with massive amount of data

Some tools:

• Mockaroo - cloud-based JSON and CSV generator http://www.mockaroo.com
• DataGenerator? - http://finraos.github.io/DataGenerator/ [Free java library designed to produce "big data" with tool assured scenario coverage]
• MockupData? - http://MockupData.com
• dbMonster
• GEDIS Studio - Online test data generator http://www.gedis-studio.com
• TeDaGen - http://www.tedagen.com
• DataTect? - http://www.datatect.com
• RandomData
• TurboData? - http://www.turbodata.ca
• Datanamic Data Generator - http://www.datanamic.com/datagenerator/index.html
• TestData
• DataFactory?
• TDGEN
• RowGen?
• DTM Data Generator - http://www.sqledit.com/dg
• MySQL Datagenerator - http://mysql-datagenerator.nl/ (only $14 : http://codecanyon.net/item/mysql-datagenerator/5315175/?ref=wolberspl)
• Flat File Generator - http://www.sqledit.com/filegenerator
• Online Test Data Generators - http://www.dataconstructor.com
• Intersystems Cache Populate - http://docs.intersystems.com/cache20102/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls?KEY=GOBJ_populate
• Test JSON file generator - http://www.sqledit.com/jsongenerator
• forSQL Data Generator - http://forsql.com/
• Test XML generator - http://www.sqledit.com/xmlgenerator
• Dummy JSON - https://www.npmjs.org/package/dummy-json

CartesianJoins are sometimes useful for generating test data. They are one of the few uses I've actually found for cartesians, other than inadvertantly crashing the RDBMS.

---

I built one once to 'randomly' generate XML documents from detailed XML schemas. -- JonGrover

---

CategoryArtificialCreativity