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
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(JS-enabled) browser-friendly.
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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.
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Option to generate data in XML, Excel, HTML, CSV or SQL.
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Country specific data (state / province / county) for Canada, US, Netherlands and UK.
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Does your laundry.
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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.