> You mean you have written an application and haven't been testing it > throughout?
Of course I've done it, it would have been foolish to write an app without any test! :) What I need now is a rapid way to fill it with tons of data, the data a user could accumulate in a year or two of use, to see if there are problems that cannot be spotted with few entries by hand (i.e. if the application slows too much and needs some optimization). Doing this by hand would be very long, so I'm looking for the best/most rapid way of doing it. > If you want to get data into your app, you might want to look at > writing code to extract data from other sources, rather than starting > with that data and trying to get it into your app. After all, you're > already writing your app's source code, you needn't treat it as a > black box. The problem is that I do not have any external source of data. My app is a diet app a user fills constantly with personal data. So I need some sort of automatic procedure to generate random data. I can obviously write an object to do it. I was only asking if this is the usual way or if there is some other better way of doing it. > >> I'm using core data to store all application data, so maybe there is a >> way I'm not considering. > > That would be an awfully generic problem to solve, wouldn't it? > "Given a program P, which we know uses Core Data in some capacity but > can do anything else beyond that, and an arbitrary set of test data T, > import T into P in a useful manner." Smells like the Halting Problem. Yes, I admit it was a very generic way of describing the problem. What I meant was: is there some way to automate the filling of a core data based application, given the core data model? What I'm looking for is some tool that reads the model of my app, takes some range for the values of attributes and generates a bulk of data my app can read. I don't know if there is something like this, but it could be a very handy way to solve my problem. Thank you very much. Cheers. Matteo Manferdini Pawn Software www.pawn-soft.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
