Test Data Generator is any tool which creates random and/or large quantities data for testing purposes. (Sometimes you don't want pure randomness.)
Important points:
- generated data should look as real as possible
- TestDatabase should be populated with massive amount of data
Some tools:
CartesianJoins are sometimes useful for generating test data. They are one of the few uses I've actually found for cartesians, other than inadvertantly crashing the RDBMS.
I built one once to 'randomly' generate XML documents from detailed XML schemas. --
JonGrover
CategoryArtificialCreativity