A continual crux of developing websites, or at least of developing websites that have user interactivity, is that you always have to input user details to test your applications. It goes with the territory. It has no purpose really, other than to test your applications (but that’s an important purpose, of course). The testing data is therefore not interesting to work with, usually. The same goes with the fake users that end up being put into the system, they are not actual people in most cases.

After having so many users with names along the lines of “asdf Williams”, or street addresses such as “lkjlkj ave. s.”, I figure why not set up a few fake fellows to use during testing. Feel free to use these people for your own testing. I won’t be offended and I won’t feel betrayed if they help you test some forms.

I won’t be giving them email addresses, we all know that it would be stupid to use an email address that you can’t use to receive any messages during testing. And, I also don’t want these fake fellows to be burdened with spam, fake fellows or not.

Enough of the introductions. Here’s the fake lineup of testing lackeys:

Johnathan Walker
9876 Pavement Street, #13
Sometown, GA 44332
P: 555-123-4567

Ralphie McRalphie
432 East West Street, #8743
Wayupthere, TX 54321
P: 987-654-3210

Jeffrey Fancypants
555 Buttercup Way
Imalamo, SD 22551
P: 112-334-5567

Calendelialitus Van Rotheresteradandylittlecar
Van Rotheresteradandylittlecar Family Manor III, Fourth Floor
South Berkenshire of the Great East Gate, West Mountain Union province VII
P: What’s a phone, you say?

That last guy will really put your form through the ringer. If anything, Calendelialitus will remind you that you have to have an automated email response or some kind of on-screen message to let users with user information like his off the hook. If I actually remember to use any of these poor saps during testing I’ll maybe report their usefulness, or lack thereof.