Data Generation

One of the design goals of stream_data is to provide a set of tools for data generation that could also work outside of property-based testing. For example, generating random data can be useful when seeding databases with fake data.

What are data generators?

At the core of data generation are generators. A generator is a data structure that contains logic that stream_data uses to generate data. Essentially, a generator is like a function that we can call to generate random terms. Let’s start with a simple instance of a generator, StreamData.integer/0. This generator produces random integers. We can use all the stream_data generators as Elixir streams since they implement the Enumerable protocol.

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