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Random Test Data for Applications

Sunday, December 27 2009 - development, data

I have been working on a couple of datasets over the last few weeks, as well as a couple of small LOB Applications for my own purposes. While developing these I have had to play with the data so that I have a quantity of data that will allow me to test the main functions.

I know there are a couple of different options to create the data, but today I was told about www.generatedata.com and to be honest it does almost all that I need to create the test data.

“Ever needed custom formatted sample / test data, like, bad? Well, that's the idea of the Data Generator. It's a free, open source script written in JavaScript, PHP and MySQL that lets you quickly generate large volumes of custom data in a variety of formats for use in testing software, populating databases, and scoring with girls. “

Features

• (JS-enabled) browser-friendly.
• Many data types available: names, phone numbers, email addresses, cities, states, provinces, counties, dates, street addresses, number ranges, alphanumeric strings, lorem ipsum text and more.
• Option to generate data in XML, Excel, HTML, CSV or SQL.
• Country specific data (state / province / county) for Canada, US, Netherlands and UK.
• Does your laundry.
• Saves your data generation forms for later use (downloadable version & for donators only)