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Random String Generation…Update!

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Originally Published Tuesday, February 17, 2009
One of the biggest challenges in input testing is the sheer amount of potential characters and the virtually infinite number of permutations of those characters in different character positions in a string. Even if we know about the myriad of language scripts used throughout the world, manually generating characters from [...]

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Test Automation: Saving Random Data

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Originally Published Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Now, many of you probably know that I am a big fan of computer generated random test data that is a represents a reasonable sample data set from the total population of possible test data. (I refer to this a probabilistic stochastic test data.) So, why would I argue against [...]

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Babel – A ‘New’ Random Unicode String Generator Test Tool

Friday, November 13, 2009

Originally Published Thursday, September 20, 2007
For some time I have wanted to add surrogate pair character support to a tool I developed called GString, and this week I managed to find some time to do that work and more! As I developed the methods for surrogate pair support I rewrote (refactored in developer parlance) some [...]

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Random Test Data Generation

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Originally Published Wednesday, May 30, 20
I am not a big fan of static test data, so this month’s issue of Software Testing and Performance magazine published an article I wrote outlining one approach for generating random string data (although the basic concepts can be used for generating other types of random data).
Unfortunately, it appears that [...]

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More on Generating Strings with Random Unicode Characters

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Originally Published Sunday, December 24, 2006
Well, for those of you living outside the Pacific Northwest you are probably unaware of the recent wind storm with winds gusting to 60+ miles per hour that left more than 1 million people on the eastern side of the state without power. The damage was pretty extensive, and since [...]

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