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Realistic Test Data Generation

Teams struggle to generate and manage realistic, constraint-respecting test data that mirrors production, causing slow, flaky, and unreliable testing.

In their words

this might solve a massive issue we have with our data warehouse where we have to hand roll a whole bunch of seeding code

r/dotnet on Reddit

teams who passed on load testing and then come to us with issues when they get load in production

r/devops on Reddit

I am spending more time qa-ing my code than writing code and was looking at a way to make it more efficient

r/SQL on Reddit

I've broken prod quite a few times. Every time it happens I mention it could be avoided with a proper test environment that's iso-prod. Still waiting after 2 and a half years.

r/ProgrammerHumor on Reddit

these accounts end up with hundreds or even thousands of orders attached to them

r/Playwright on Reddit

So often we have clashes when multiple people want to test their feature branch on a test environment.

r/ProgrammerHumor on Reddit

Testing under these conditions is usually far more difficult, far more uncertain, far slower, far more expensive than in simpler environments.

r/softwaretesting on Reddit

We have a test environment with a copy of the production database, but of course it is impossible to simulate the same workload there.

r/SQLServer on Reddit

writing pgTAP tests by hand for every single migration it generates is completely killing our velocity

r/Supabase on Reddit

If a feature branch or external branch preview is still connected to the same Lovable Cloud backend as production, then the code is isolated but the data isn't.

r/lovable on Reddit

they give up and I'm back to hand writing seeding scripts again

r/QualityAssurance on Reddit

Is there any way to get more test data without manually keying a lot of vendors, customers, transactions, etc?

r/quickbooksonline on Reddit

Testing involving models is slow. It runs all your migration.

Hacker News

the business logic that inevitably ends up in SPs - how do you go about unit testing that in isolation, and particularly from a behavioral standpoint?

Hacker News

QA and backend developers

Where they talk

  • r/QualityAssurance
  • r/Playwright
  • r/softwaretesting
  • r/microsaas
  • r/programming
  • r/automation
  • r/lovable
  • r/SQLServer

Tools they use today

  • Playwright
  • GitHub
  • Neon
  • Bitbucket
  • Lovable
  • PostgreSQL
  • SQL scripts
  • Claude

Why those fall short

  • applying all migrations takes minutes and is done many times
  • sqlx::test generates lots of code, slowing recompilation
  • manual copying always happens; framework is old and slow
  • environments built by contractors, no proper data separation or governance
  • truncate too slow with thousands of tests; nested transactions block per-test rollback