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Approaches for Test Data Generation in Software Testing

The Test Data Generation is the process of collecting and managing a large amount of data from
various resources just to implement the test cases to ensure the functional soundness of the system
under testing.
These generated datasets act as the input for the test-cases so that the behavior of the system
can be checked.

Test datasets are designed or selected for both positive testing or negative testing.

1) Manual Test data generation:


all the datasets are generated manually by the tester with respect to all the required test case
through experience and anticipations.

Pros:
Easy to implement, no additional tools are needed to be deployed.
Increase the confidence of the tester.
Cons:
Accuracy of data sets generated by this scheme mostly doubtful.
Time-consuming process.
Approaches for Test Data Generation in Software Testing

2) Automated Test Data Generation:


The major feature of this testing that makes it more efficient than the above technique is the
speed, automated data generation technique produces data as in an expedited manner
through analyzing large volume of data in a small-time interval. In this scheme, we use
automated tools, there are many available in the market.

Pros:
The data sets generated by this scheme are highly accurate.
Data generation speed is very fast.

Cons:
The one demerit of this method is that it is a costlier method to implement.
The second one is that these tools take time to understand the system.
Approaches for Test Data Generation in Software Testing

3) Back end data injection Approach:


This method is done with the help of using SQL queries. Here a tester writes the relevant
query and injects it into the database in order to populate the required data sets with respect
to the test cases. This is also an easier method which generates a large amount of data in just
a few minutes. We can update the database in this scheme if some new datasets are found
through other resources like sample XML documents etc could be updated for future use if
required.
Pros:
It is less time-consuming technique.
Less expertise required as compared to the above technique as you only need to write a
correct query to populate data required.
Cons:
If you write any invalid query or incorrect it may populate illogical dataset or may cause the
failure of your database system so keep attention while injecting any query into database.
Approaches for Test Data Generation in Software Testing

4) Third-party tool:
A number of tools are available in the market that is processed or provided by the out
premises tools. These tools first understand the scenarios of your system under testing and
then generates dataset as per the requirement. These tools are customizable as per your
need of the business. These tools provide wide coverage and accuracy in generating datasets.
Pros:
These tools are accurate because they first understand the entire system and then generated
the datasets accordingly.
Cons:
Costlier technique to implement because the price of such a tool is high as compared to
other technique.
Less coverage in case of heterogeneous testing environment because these tools aren’t
generic in nature.

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