Need to randomly generate a DOB in SeleniumIDE

Morning all, im new to thr forum and in need of help,

For one reason or another i need to be able to generate a random, but realistic date of birth. so no more than 100 years old, no younger than 16 years old.

Is this possible to be able to do it in IDE ?

Any help would be apreciated.

Thanks

Blair

Yes this is definitely doable with a custom function in your user-extension file. Basically you would create 3 random numbers, 1-12, 1-29(just in case you do get February), and 1912-1996. Then use the function to return those numbers with "/" between them.

hondaman wrote:Morning all, im new to thr forum and in need of help,

For one reason or another i need to be able to generate a random, but realistic date of birth. so no more than 100 years old, no younger than 16 years old.

Is this possible to be able to do it in IDE ?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Blair

You can generate your values using JavaScript. For example, your year of birth would be:

javascript{Math.floor(Math.random() * (1996 - 1912 + 1)) + 1912} will bring back a random value between 1912 and 1996 (ages 16 through 100).

For the month you can use (as long as you need a numeric value):

javascript{[Math.floor(Math.random() * (12 - 1 + 1)) + 1]}

And for the day:

javascript{[Math.floor(Math.random() * (28 - 1 + 1)) + 1]}

With this, it only returns dates from 1 through 28 (you'll have to figure out the 29th through 31st on your own to get around the issue with February).

To put them all together (with a "/" like ccox mentioned):

javascript{[Math.floor(Math.random() * (12 - 1 + 1)) + 1]+"/"+[Math.floor(Math.random() * (28 - 1 + 1)) + 1] + "/" + [Math.floor(Math.random() * (1980 - 1950 + 1)) + 1950]}

I'm no JavaScript whiz; it took me a while to piece this together, but it's been useful in some scripts that I've put together using the Selenium IDE. I hope that it helps (and 'Hello' from one forum newbie to another ).

Mark