fake: Randomly generated fake data

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QuickCheck generates completely random data for the purposes of test and catching corner cases. The fake package provides tools for generating data that looks plausibly real.

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Versions [faq]	0.1, 0.1.1, 0.1.1.1, 0.1.1.2
Change log	ChangeLog.md
Dependencies	base (>=4.8 && <4.12), containers (==0.5.), generics-sop (>=0.2 && <0.4), random (==1.1.), text (==1.2.*), time (>=1.4 && <1.10) [details]
License	BSD-3-Clause
Copyright	Doug Beardsley, Formation Inc.
Author	Doug Beardsley
Maintainer	mightybyte@gmail.com
Revised	Revision 1 made by DougBeardsley at Fri May 3 19:44:50 UTC 2019
Category	Data
Home page	https://github.com/mightybyte/fake
Bug tracker	https://github.com/mightybyte/fake/issues
Source repo	head: git clone https://github.com/mightybyte/fake.git
Uploaded	by DougBeardsley at Wed Apr 18 19:50:34 UTC 2018
Distributions	NixOS:0.1.1.2
Downloads	916 total (135 in the last 30 days)
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Status	Docs available [build log] Last success reported on 2018-04-18 [all 1 reports]

Modules

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Fake
- Fake.Class
- Fake.Combinators
- Fake.Cover
- Provider
  - Address
    - Fake.Provider.Address.EN_US
  - Fake.Provider.DateTime
  - IdNumber
    - Fake.Provider.IdNumber.EN_US
  - Fake.Provider.Lang
    - Fake.Provider.Lang.EN_US
  - Fake.Provider.Locale
  - Person
    - Fake.Provider.Person.EN_US
  - PhoneNumber
    - Fake.Provider.PhoneNumber.EN_US
  - Fake.Provider.UserAgent
- Fake.Utils

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Fake

Fake is a Haskell package for generating realistic-looking fake data.

Overview

The package has three main components:

Analogs to QuickCheck's Arbitrary and Gen that use realistic probability distributions rather than the more uniform distributions used by QuickCheck.
A generic coverage function that generates full constructor coverage over a data type.
A suite of providers for common types of data such as names, addresses, phone numbers, ID numbers, etc.

Fake's gcover function is particularly useful with the armor package for ensuring that all constructors of your data types are tested for backwards compatible serializations without having to write all the values yourself. This allows you to get higher confidence that you have covered most of the important cases without the combinatorial explosion of exhaustive testing.

Credits

Original inspiration came from the production needs of Formation (previously Takt).

Providers and other details were inspired by similar packages in Python and Ruby.