In my work I test various changes in Zen Cart code and measure performance. To do this, I need quite large database of products, categories and manufacturers. I like to test changes with 1k, 10k, 100k and one million products and 1k, 10k manufacturers / categories to see how zen cart scales. I need to add/remove millions of products quickly, therefore I created Product Generator for Zen Cart v1.3.8a in Java. I don’t have much time to clean the code and release it, but if anyone wants it – mail me.

Current features:

• create products with randomly generated names and descriptions
• create manufacturers with randomly generated names
• create categories with randomly generated names and descriptions
• assigns products to manufacturers and categories (splits them evenly, but it’s possible to assign products to manufacturers/categories with any probability distribution, for example Gaussian)
• supports many languages (multiple entries in categories_description, products_description)
• creates milion products in minutes

product generator, Utils, Zen Cart