SanDroid (3/17/2011)
kaspencer (3/17/2011)
However, in the Microsoft library, it states "You can use Microsoft Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals to generate meaningful data for testing. "Which is correct? Meaningless or Meaningfull?
They both are really. The data would be meaningfull from a testing perspective of dertermining if the database can be populated with the data and data-types that it will be filled with. Also for testing this generated or "FALSE" data can test an application UI to ensure that it dsplays information properly.
However testing a Zip Code and Last Name feild in a database with the values 54321 and QWRTGHOPI is not very meaningfull. You can find documentation that is not sales oriented that will also back this up.
Yeah, correct. Thanks SanDroid. When I said "meaningless" I meant that its not real-world data and actually is often nonsensical. When Microsoft say "meaingful" they mean data that means something in respect of the tests. Probably truer to say that both are correct - just depends on the context (as is often the case).
Jamie Thomson
http://sqlblog.com/blogs/jamie_thomson