An Open Source Tool for Easier Database Testing

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This is a product of the 18F folks, and as I recall, the new agency the federal government created named the U.S. Digital Service (link: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/08/11/delivering-custome... )

These are some smart and innovative folks. I hope politics doesn't do something to slow them down.

It's a product of 18F (of which I'm an employee). The US Digital Service folks are awesome, but a totally separate unit. 18F is in an independent administrative agency, the GSA, the Digital Service is in the White House.

Interesting! I created a similar project to help generate YAML fixture files from the database for testing/seeding. But with mine you have to define a "tree" that it walks through to extract the relations.

https://github.com/meesterdude/back_to_the_fixture

This appears to be a tool for generating test data, for your application.

For testing SQL database engines there is the Random Query Generator: https://launchpad.net/randgen

It was designed for MySQL, but works fine with others.

This is not merely a tool for generating test data; this generates a sample of the live database.

> random yet relationally consistent subsets of relational databases

That's a very different thing compared to a chinese-menu style random data generator.

Here is something similar[1] used in simulating clinical data for the omop cdm[2]. Interesting area of research in medical informatics.

[1]http://omop.org/node/70

[2]http://omop.org/CDM

Does it come with built in custom NSA backdoor creator?

Its open source check the code if you are actually interested.

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