testdata

How do I get the default temporary directory on Mac OS X?

I'd like to create some directories of data for some unit tests and I'd like these directories to be in the default temporary directory for the user. I could just create a subdir under /tmp I suppose, but I don't want to make an assumption about how somebody has set up their own machine. I'm planning on writing the test data on the fly...

What are some good online sources for data sets?

Some time ago I came across as site online who's sole purpose was the collection of various data sets, location data, district census data, or whatever sets community members were interested in maintaining. My question is, do you know the site that I'm thinking of, or can you suggest any other sites that perform a similar service? I'll...

Test data generation tool

Is there any tool to generate test data based on specific requirements? e.g. Size, file type ...

Cucumber & test data management for non-Ruby apps

I'm testing an app that's basically a message-handling application - a message comes in, it's content is analysed, then it's sent somewhere else for processing. The app isn't built in Ruby. As you might imagine, the main testing approah consists of generating a whole bunch of different types of (quite complex) messages, loading them in...

How can I pay only once to provide the same expensive data source to multiple unit tests?

G'day! I have 4.6GB of test data in 220,000 files. A bulk test requires finding, matching, and unzipping pairs of the files. I want to run multiple unit tests across each pair. It'll take a dreadfully long time if I can't persuade the test framework to find, match, and unzip the test data only once regardless of the number of unit tests...

Test Data For Visa or Mastercard

need a virtual or test data for visa or master card to test my system like Authorization code, card number and expiry date ???? ...

AutoFixture vs NBuilder

Hello all, I'm seleting tool for populating my .net models (poco) with test data. I'm actually mocking wcf services and need to populate datacontract objects with test data. Found a huge number of test data generation tools, but the majority is realted to DB test data generation and don't fit well for .net objects creatiom. The most a...

How can i fill my mysql tables with test data of about 100,000 records?

Hi Guys; I know that i will have to write some sort of script for this but? can you guys guive me a go ahead on hwo to do it as i havent done it before. Thanks ...