Google Sets for small data sets and brainstorming
I discovered a cool little tool for generating small data sets about a year ago and I recently had a chance to use it again. The tool is called Google Sets and can be found at Google Labs along with some other cool stuff. I recently used this tool to generate a set of names, credit cards, and businesses for an article on testing financial applications. It's simple, quick, and I like it.
For a quick example, if you enter the following simple test terms:
you get the following list of test ideas in response:
And each term returned links to a google search on the topic. So you can see this can be a great test-idea generating tool as well.
Any other ideas on how this tool could be used?
For a quick example, if you enter the following simple test terms:
- Functional
- Performance
- Usability
you get the following list of test ideas in response:
- Usability
- Performance
- Functional
- Security
- Scalability
- Reliability
- Availability
- Manageability
- Maintainability
- Functionality
- Supportability
- Extensibility
- Stress
- Recovery
- Flexibility
- Interoperability
- Portability
- Regression
- compatibility
- Volume
- Consistency
- Extranet Considerations
- Specifications
- Location independence
- High availability
- Secure Management
- safety
- Fault tolerance
- Stability
- Identity
- Installation
- Accessibility
- Synchronization
- Hardware characteristics
- Peripherals
- Standards compliance
- Cost Savings
- Routing
- Configuration
- Operations
- accuracy
- Platform neutrality
- Connection management
And each term returned links to a google search on the topic. So you can see this can be a great test-idea generating tool as well.
Any other ideas on how this tool could be used?