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I’m in the process of creating a csv import application for employee data among other things, so I needed good quality test data. Instead of writing a few lines of test data myself, I thought I’d check if any free applications existed to do the work for me. I’m into free applications that I don’t have to download, so the search was on, and I’m happy to say I didn’t have to look very far.

I found this free little tool for generating different types of data online:

(http://www.generatedata.com/#generator).

I just plug in a few options and this generator gives me as much realistic data as I need to properly test my csv import application. Saves me more than a few minutes writing test data myself. Useful for load testing as well. Generate a few thousand lines of csv, import it to your database and test away. Of course, you can use MySQL functions to help generate a heap of INSERT statements as well, but this is another way