Generating data with Bogus

While handpicked data has its place in unit tests, it often comes with inherent bias: because we’ve written the functionality that we want to test, we have a certain expectation about the format of the values being used. To combat this, many tests benefit from randomized or generated data, especially when the specific input matters less than the resulting outcome. Bogus is a powerful tool tailored for those moments when you need reliable, unbiased test data without the manual labor.

In this section, we’ll introduce Bogus and AutoBogus and explore some of its basic capabilities. However, it’s worth noting that we’re merely scratching the surface here. These tools offer many features, but for the sake of brevity and focus, we’ll keep our discussion high-level, touching only upon a few fundamental use cases.

Let’s start off by adding AutoBogus (and thus also Bogus) to our project:

1. In Visual Studio, right...