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US 2004/0107386 A1Published application
Test data generation system for evaluating data cleansing applications
AssigneeLockheed Martin Corporation
InventorsDouglas R. Burdick, Robert J. Szczerba
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Abstract
A system evaluates a data cleansing application. The system includes a collection of records cleansed by the data cleansing application, a plurality of dirtying functions for operating upon the collection to introduce errors to the collection, and a record of the errors introduced to the cleansed collection. The plurality of dirtying functions produces a collection of dirty records.
Claims10
A system for evaluating a data cleansing application, said system comprising:
- a collection of records cleansed by the data cleansing application;
- a plurality of dirtying functions for operating upon said collection to introduce errors to said collection, said plurality of dirtying functions producing a collection of dirty records;
- and
- a record of the errors introduced to the cleansed collection.
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A method for evaluating a data cleansing application, said method comprising the steps of:
- creating a dirty test data set from a cleansed data set;
- cleaning the dirty test data set with the data cleansing application;
- and
- comparing the output of said cleaning step to the cleansed data set.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.