EntropySink
Technical & Scientific => Software => Topic started by: hans on February 18, 2008, 05:47:40 PM
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I'm working on a new project at work and in the process of needing test data. I moving from SQL inserts to more of integration test inputs. I need to be consistent so the same test data is available each time we want to do testing, to keep everybody in sync and make life easier.
As I was writing my data insert suite, I remembered a concept from my old game programming days of using the psuedo-random generator to build much larger realities. So at the start of my test data suit I simply seed the generator and voila!, same data sets each time without having to manually create a bunch of data. All I have to do is include the random generator in my creating methods.