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Experiments in Test Data

This is a set of files on test data. Including some notes on generating test data in MS Excel, and a prototype application for generating test data from XML.

If you find any of the deliberate bugs that I've placed in the spreadsheet or the VB code then feel free to get in touch and I will get them fixed.

The items here are versioned as 22_March_2005

Generating Test Data In Excel

a pdf of explanatory notes.

an excel spreadsheet of macros and examples.

XML based test data generation application

[zip] written in VB so you will need the VB runtimes installed. From a simple XML file, and simple GUI you can create text files according to defined rules, using csv files and various constructs. The example file supplied will generate a .txt file so that you can quickly see how to use it. Documentation and error checking is minimal but the tool is classed as a prototype.