Between work, .Less and other things, I’ve been working a bit on a tool I would personally use. How many times did you just need a big set of test data for an application? How many times did you resort to simply dumping randomly generated data into your tables? Well, I’ve did that a few times, and one of the biggest annoyances is that the generated data is usually not really ‘real’, if you know what I mean.
Say I have an application which has keeps customer records. I’d have a name, address, maybe some dates, something numeric and so on. With my new project, I aim to make getting some sample data easy(tm). It’s very, VERY prototype’ish right now, but I want to practice a bit of ‘release early, release often’ this time. So here it is! Take a look at the Smooth Friction test-data generator, and tell me what you think. Is it something you’d use? Should I continue working on this?
Disclaimer:
I am not a designer, so it looks crap. It’s a very early version, so expect bugs. Lots of them. Break it please, and tell me about it and how you did it ;-)