Tip Of The Day : Use A Data Generator

While developing applications creating test data can be a tedious process to the developers. You don't have to do the same things like creating a user for testing over and over again.

Use a data generator. There are numerous tools freely available online that can provide the test data for you.

I have been using Gneratedata.com for a while and am happy with it. You can download the data generator tool and install it on your local machine. It provides data generator forms where you specify the type of data you require. It can generate output in various forms - HTML, XML, CSV and SQL. In less than a minute you can create hundreds of thousands of rows of test data for you application.

Try it out for yourself at http://www.generatedata.com/#generator.

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