Test User Data (Fake Data)

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Test User Data (Fake Data)

Does anyone know of a large formatted collection of fake user data (names, email address, locations, etc.) that can be used for testing an application?

It can be clearly fake, this will be limited to the development server. But I'm sure anything would be better than what I could come up with.

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There are some tools built just for this. I've used http://www.generatedata.com/ before to generate data for MySql databases. RedGate has a nice tool to fill your SQL Server database with test data called SQL Data Generator. The RedGate tool costs about $300, but there is a free trial.

Lance Fisher 2009-01-04 08:23:07

I have made generatedata.com to work with sql server with just some basic string replacements since the basic insert format is the same.

corymathews 2010-02-01 22:15:52

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This is a open source tool for generating various types of test data. http://www.generatedata.com

thetacom 2009-01-04 08:23:53

See this SO thread: Creating test data in a database

Patrick Cuff 2009-01-04 15:46:40

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Check out this list of "Funny Names" some of them are classic

http://www.ethanwiner.com/funnames.html

Jon Erickson 2009-07-04 06:28:22

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http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/ is a good resource for creating test data with realistic looking users complete with SSN, email address, ... They have a bulk download option too.

Hightechrider 2010-02-01 22:06:58

Another open source test generator tool is my own http://code.google.com/p/csvtest.

anon 2010-02-01 22:13:32

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