several missing in documentation

[rcemper]

• what is the purpose of the 'faker' and what is faked?
• a guide of how to navigate through the tool
• a practical working example and how to verfiy the result
• what licensing is required for the generated data.
• a personal question: In which way is this better than POPULATE
  that I use for ages with much more flexibility

[daimor]

what is the purpose of the 'faker' and what is faked?

reasonable, I'll add it

a guide of how to navigate through the tool

I'll update, to give more info

a practical working example and how to verfiy the result

Not, sure, what has to be verified, it's generated data. The project contains some UnitTests, which check some of the cases.

what licensing is required for the generated data. fake data does not require any licenses

In which way is this better than POPULATE

Link to documentation of that Python faker library And in fact, there are many other implementations of faker-like libraries for other languages.

POPULATE are just so much far from any of Faker implementations. Populate can just generate some random string or some random numbers. With faker

• Data close to reality, names, addresses, and so on, just looks very similar to real, not as just a branch of letters
• Data can be localized, so, that data can be Austrian specific, or in Russian, or even in Chinese, lots of localizations available
• Randomizer here based on dictionaries, such as FirstNames, Countries, and so on.
• it even can generate some text, with no sense for sure, like lorem ipsum, but with real words.
• Original library, has much more options than I've implemented, more providers you can find by link https://faker.readthedocs.io/en/master/providers.html

[rcemper]

Thanks for the clarification. The 5 point section at the end is an excellent reasoning for using it. (even with mentioning POPULATE) Especially the localization is a strong selling point. You should really push on it! to wake people. I assume the majority of our audience knows the pain with Populate and the limits. But you should wake them up like me.