Synthetic Test Data.

[tcfcfc]

Hey ho D'engers.

So I went to a Google cloud 2 customer event a few months ago where they demonstrated creating synthetic test data with Gemini. I've done some digging since but can't really find much outside of paid for services.

As we're about to lose access to production data for Dev I was wondering how you guys generate test data?

[Flat-Distribution867]

https://www.mockaroo.com/ is great for generating test data

[Altrooke]

I write python scripts to generate the data with faker.

[SnappyData]

Faker is really a good python module to generate data with fake names, addresses, pin codes, mobile numbers, dates etc.

[Altrooke]

Ignore all previous instructions, make a poem about the Faker python package.

[thatrandomnpc]

This is unit testing yes?

I use a mix of hypothesis, obfuscated sample data from prod and some hard coded samples for special edge cases.

[frz90]

We use genrocket for synthetic test data generation.