Real Texts story

Leave comments, reply to a comment, provide your feedback, test forum engine, chats... A lot of testers face this type of functionality, that requires creation of some text with appropriate attributes (controlled length, special characters) and preferably this text should be unique from test to test. When my imagination came closer to the end (tired of creativity) after "New comment", "New reply", "Absolutely unique comment left by me" and "This is #comment that %contains $pecial ch@r@cters"... I decided that it is enough to tolerate that. I did some investigation on how to improve that and the following result was born - Real Texts application. It allows you (and me) to use randomly generated It is interesting to take a look at nice looking users/patients/employees that looks like real people or to see how combinations of first anf last names are nicely mixed.
Since it is deployed to Heroku cloud service you can safely use it (and me as well) as a data source for your projects.

I've prepared REST endpoint with examples how to connect, request and get response for different types of popular libraries. The examples are here

  • Web page that uses endpoint to access the data using WebDriver. Use it for endpoint evaluation. However, if you want to get real names using this page, please see specific examples: here