TurboData either obtains the database schema definition directly from the source database, or the database schema may be entered manually into TurboData. COOL:Gen users can use the optional Data Composer component to read the database definition from the COOL:Gen model. The information in the database schema such as data type, length, and foreign key details are used to create suites of test data.
How does this differ from other Test Data creation methods?
There are various other different ways to create test data;
These methods are all time consuming, difficult to maintain and very error prone. Mistakes are commonly made with the referential integrity. Errors in the test data often manifest themselves as program bugs, resulting in lost time by developers looking for bugs in the program code, when the errors are actually in the test data.
