Generating Test Data For Your Applications

Sometimes on the internet you find websites that are extremely useful. The other day I stumbled upon one such site called GenerateData.com

This website does exactly what the URL suggests, it generates test data for you. This is great if you're in I.T. because invariably for a project, you need test data to demonstrate features to your users.

Generating data is a breeze. Give the data a name, choose the data you want and click Generate.

It generates test data which is great for demo's. Here's a small sample:

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Malcolm Sheridan is a Microsoft awarded MVP in ASP.NET and regular presenter at conferences and user groups throughout Australia. Being an ASP.NET Insider, his focus is on web technologies and has been for the past 10 years. He loves working with ASP.NET MVC these days and also loves getting his hands dirty with JavaScript. He also blogs regularly at DotNetCurry.com. Follow him on twitter @malcolmsheridan

4 comments:

Norm said...: Wow. Thank you very much! It is very useful when I want to test an application.; December 26, 2009 at 5:48 AM
Anonymous said...: Thanks for the info, this is what I needed; December 30, 2009 at 12:09 AM
Unknown said...: Check out "DataWang" - a .net library wrapper around Google Sets API - http://code.google.com/p/datawang/

You can hook this library into your .net code and it can even generate lists of your entities with their properties augomagically set to generated values based on an attributes you set.; January 4, 2010 at 8:50 AM
Malcolm Sheridan said...: @James Simmonds
Thanks for the great info!; January 4, 2010 at 2:20 PM