US 2015/0309919 A1 · SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING SYNTHETIC DATA FOR SOFTWARE TESTING PURPOSES

Abstract

According to one aspect, it is appreciated that it may be useful and particularly advantageous to provide a data generator that creates more realistic data for testing purposes, especially in data systems where large volumes of data are necessary. In one implementation, a data generator is provided that produces relationally consistent data for testing purposes. For instance, a synthetic data generation process may be performed that produces any number of relationally consistent data table structures. Further, in another implementation, generation of the data can be statistically influenced so that the data generated can take on the “look and feel” of production data. Also, data may be produced as needed, and its generation may be performed in parallel, depending on interdependencies in the data.

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Dependent claims

A system for generating data, the system comprising:

a data generator that generates one or more test databases, including:
a column generator component adapted to build column-level data;
a table generator component adapted to build table-level data including the column-level data;
a component that determines an interdependency between the column-level and table-level data;
and
a scheduler that schedules generation of the column-level data and table-level data responsive to the determined interdependency between the column-level and table-level data.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

System and method for generating synthetic data for software testing purposes

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Abstract

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