Generates random data for your tests.
Project description
FauxFactory generates random data for your automated tests easily!
There are times when you’re writing tests for your application when you need to pass random, non-specific data to the areas you are testing. For these scenarios when all you need is a random string, numbers, dates, times, email address, IP, etc, then FauxFactory can help!
Available methods
generate_alpha
generate_alphanumeric
generate_boolean
generate_choice
generate_cjk
generate_date
generate_datetime
generate_email
generate_html
generate_integer
generate_ipaddr
generate_iplum
generate_latin1
generate_mac
generate_negative_integer
generate_numeric_string
generate_positive_integer
generate_string
generate_time
generate_url
generate_utf8
generate_uuid
Examples
Some examples:
>>> In [0]: from fauxfactory import FauxFactory >>> In [2]: FauxFactory.generate_alphanumeric() >>> Out[2]: u'3MVWA' >>> In [3]: FauxFactory.generate_alphanumeric(length=15) >>> Out[3]: u'Cxju7QlNhLMSzaV' >>> In [4]: FauxFactory.generate_cjk() >>> Out[4]: u'\u7914\u4f5e\u58cb\u63e5\u56ef' >>> In [5]: FauxFactory.generate_latin1() >>> Out[5]: u'\xea\xd4\xf2\xfa\xe5' >>> In [6]: FauxFactory.generate_url() >>> Out[6]: u'http://test.edu' >>> In [7]: FauxFactory.generate_url(scheme='https', tlds='io') >>> Out[7]: u'https://test.io' >>> In [8]: FauxFactory.generate_ipaddr() >>> Out[8]: u'42.237.22.59' >>> In [9]: FauxFactory.generate_datetime() >>> Out[9]: datetime.datetime(2225, 5, 22, 18, 19, 12, 452661) >>> In [10]: FauxFactory.generate_uuid() >>> Out[10]: u'81670150-ed11-4b28-88a0-7f61ba8338c4' >>> In [11]: FauxFactory.generate_email() >>> Out[11]: u'lVYREmpx@example.biz' >>> In [12]: FauxFactory.generate_time() >>> Out[12]: datetime.time(22, 51, 2, 154172) >>> In [13]: FauxFactory.generate_choice(['green', 'yellow', 'blue', 'white']) >>> Out[13]: 'white' >>> In [14]: FauxFactory.generate_url(subdomain=FauxFactory.generate_alpha()) >>> Out[14]: u'ftp://GtDPI.gov' >>> In [15]: FauxFactory.generate_iplum() >>> Out[15]: u'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.' >>> In [16]: FauxFactory.generate_utf8() >>> Out[16]: u'\U00042a80\U000fb486\U00010c58\U000f2b5e\U00051c5c' >>> In [17]: FauxFactory.generate_html() >>> Out[18]: u'<em>R6FGd</em>'
Installation
FauxFactory is available at PyPI, so installing it is as simple as executing:
$ pip install fauxfactory
Or you can download the latest version and install it using setup.py:
$ git clone git@github.com:omaciel/fauxfactory.git $ cd fauxfactory $ python setup.py build install
Contribute
Fork the repository on GitHub to start making your changes to the master branch (or branch off of it).
Write a test which shows that the bug was fixed or that the feature works as expected.
Send a pull request and bug the maintainer until it gets merged and published. :) Make sure to add yourself to AUTHORS.
FauxFactory is written and maintained by Og Maciel and various contributors.
Development Lead
Og Maciel @omaciel
Contributors
Corey Welton @cswiii
Elyézer Rezende @elyezer
Jefferson Fausto Vaz @faustovaz
Jeremy Audet @Ichimonji10
Kedar Bidarkar @kbidarkar
Release History
1.0.0 (2014-09-17)
Added new method generate_html
Added new makefile
0.3.1 (2014-07-10)
Check for sys.maxunicode when generating utf8 characters.
0.3.0 (2014-06-15)
FauxFactory is now Python 3 compatible
Added new method generate_utf8
0.2.1 (2014-05-09)
Fixed issue that prevented strings longer than the full length of LOREM_IPSUM_TEXT from being generated (Github Issue #16).
0.2.0 (2014-05-08)
Added new ‘Lorem Ipsum’ generator.
Changed license from LGPL3+ to Apache 2.0
0.1.3 (2014-04-16)
Updated character range for CJK generator to avoid generating ‘tofu’ characters.
Added Contributors section to README.
New documentation (@faustovaz)
Bugfixes:
Fixed generate_string function (@faustovaz)
0.1.2 (2014-03-19)
Bugfixes:
Generators for email, url and IP should return a unicode string.
0.1.1 (2014-03-17)
Fixed formatting of README for better display on Pypi.
0.1.0 (2014-03-17)
Initial Release.
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