Ask HN: How do you procure data for software tests?

1 points by spIrr ↗ HN
I am building a product in the procurement space, and would like good data to test this with – e.g., purchase orders and invoices that have some erroneous entries, invoices that don't match purchase orders etc. What are the options I could use to generate this dataset?

Also, I want to probably use data to demo the solution to prospects, and I'd like to have this datasets generated specifically for each demo (i.e., if a customer only deals with services, there is no need to show him demo data that has inventory movements in it, really).

Any opinions appreciated!

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The project I'm currently working on uses SQL database replication from production to populate data into the UAT and SIT environments.