Creating fake data in .NET using Bogus.md

Problem

Creating fake data in .NET using Bogus

Environment

Visual Studio 2022

Solution

Follow the following steps to creating fake data for testing process

Step 1

Add the Bogus NuGet package to your console application

dotnet add package Bogus

Step 2

Define rules

var fakeDotNetDemo = new Faker<Student>()
	.RuleFor(s => s.Id, f=> f.IndexFaker)
	.RuleFor(s => s.FullName, f=> f.Name.FullName)
	.RuleFor(s => s.Country, f=> f.Address.Country)

Step 3

Call generate method

var fakeDataDemo = fakeDotNetDemo.Generate();

var json = JsonSerializer.Serializer(fakeDataDemo);
Console.WriteLine(json)

public class Student
{
	public int Id {get; set;}
	public string? FullName {get; set;}
	public string? Country {get; set;}
}

Step 4

Generate N'Fake Entries

var fakeDataDemo = fakeDotNetDemo.Generate(2);
var json = JsonSerializer.Serializer(fakeDataDemo);
Console.WriteLine(json)

//Output will be like this
[{"Id":0. "FullName": "Jon Beier", "Country": "Japan"},
{"Id":1. "FullName": "Matt Schmit", "Country": "USA"},
{"Id":2. "FullName": "Victor Frankl", "Country": "Austria"}]