January 2009

GenerateData – An open source data generator tool

Thanks to the Open Source Community for providing bunch of tools. It made our life so easy. I am software tester & during my work some times we need to generate some data for testing. Thanks to BenjaminKeen.com who provided Data Generator tool.

It is a web based tool with multiple options to generate data. Using it intelligently one make different

patterns. Generated data can be exported into multiple formats.

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)

It can be used on line, and one can also deploy it on its own machine with some normal requirements.

Any one can install it will following simple steps,

By using data generator we can use any number of records with any number of columns. If we need to generate data for user registration form like,

After defining columns with their required input type simple click on Generate button, and see its magic 🙂

We can use that data in manual and automate testing, and on many other areas.

HP Quick Test Professional

I found HP Quick Test Professional good tool. Its functional testing tool which use VB Script. You can write your own scripts to execute your test cases. It can be used for the Java, Dot Net and many more application interfaces.
Its good tool for beginners in Software Quality Assurance Industry.

Please share if some one have more to share on.

Quality is never free

I don’t have too much experience in Software Quality Assurance but it Got in this short time that “Quality is not free”.

We have to pay for quality sometimes in terms of money and sometimes more than money.