Rapidly Construct Perfect Data Sets for Hardware and Software Testing
Challenges:
Evaluating the performance of hardware platforms and software applications requires the use of realistic production data. File and tables must be the right sizes, and contain the right data types, record formats and counts.
Standard benchmarks promulgated by organizations like the Transaction Processing Performance Council may similarly require a wide range of pre-determined volumes and layouts of test data.
Large files and tables can take a long time to build and load without the right tools and techniques. Culling sample data from production can take time, and violate data privacy rules.
Solutions:
IRI's test data creation package, RowGen, can rapidly build safe, scaling
test files in any format - all in one job script and I/O pass.
With RowGen, you can generate a complete and consistent battery of files for different
software and hardware products -- helping you find the best processing
platforms for your environment.
RowGen can create any number (and size) of files with any number of columns in any fixed or delimited position, with more than 100 different data types available. The test records and fields can be selected and transformed to emulate production data, and values can recur or change in successive runs through random seed management.
Each field contains either randomly generated data, or data randomly selected from set files or numeric ranges to be more realistic.
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