Donald Maffly will present "Logic Programming to Generate Complex and Meaningful Test Data" at the Pacific NorthWest Software Quality Conference on October 18.
Maffly's group at Huron has produced a system in SWI-Prolog that uses techniques based on reverse query processing to generate test data from SQL SELECT queries. Data generated in this manner structurally resembles real data, and allows application testers to land data on precise points called for in functional testing.