Sorry if this is off topic – but it is certainly programming related.
I need to test my web application at scale (concurrent users and amount of data in system). For the latter, I need some way of generating dummy data for a variety of types (name, address, email and some other data types)
Are there any open source (free), or commercial providers of dummy data dictionaries (in any format but preferably mySQL) (I don’t really need a whole application – just the data).
How have others solved this problem?
edit:
Sorry if I wasn’t clear. I don’t need a way to code this – I just need the dummy data(base) files to provide the raw information. I don’t want nonsense data (like randomly generated characters) because this won’t allow us to perform usability tests or demonstrations. If this isn’t available in open source – does anyone know why not?
edit 2:
I’ve seen generatedata.comm, but the database that backs the application is too small. I need to test around 100,000 users (and I have needs for data types that are not supported by that application. Even just a dictionary (english), in database form would be useful.
This website offers you a lot of free data for tests purpose : http://www.fakenamegenerator.com