Randomly generated values in requests and other ReadyAPI functions

[KarelHusa]

Current situation

ReadyAPI DataGenerator provides different random values (random integer, email, name, city, etc.)

I like this function since it creates nice test data.

However, the random values are only accessible via DataGenerator DataSource.

Proposal

It would be great if we could use them in:

• REST, SOAP, and other requests
• Variable setup
• Groovy scripts
• etc.

In ReadyAPI the random values could be available via:

• expansion e.g. ${#Random#FirstName}
• Get data function adding a Random category in the top level

Implementation proposal

Wrapping Java Faker (https://github.com/DiUS/java-faker ) would do the task.

Java faker can be configured to use localized data (e.g. english names, spanish names, etc.)

The faker provides a lot of interesting data useful for testing, just to name few of them:

Address
Animal
App
Artist
Avatar
Aviation
Book
Business
Company
Color
File
Finance
Food
Name
Nation
Number
PhoneNumber

and many more, including some funny categories like ChuckNorris.

[thePantz]

This is a fantastic idea! My only critique is maybe java-faker wouldn't be the repo to use as it hasn't been maintained recently. I would suggest a fork such as https://github.com/datafaker-net/datafaker/

[KarelHusa]

@thePantz, thanks for your suggestion.