In general, it depends on what type of testing and what technologies you are using. For performance testing and other testing that requires large data sets, I prefer to have a &quot;golden&quot; copy of a database that is simply restored to the testing environment as needed. For smaller integration tests the database is usually seeded dynamically, I&#x27;ve seen it done through fixtures&#x2F;bootstrapping (Django, Grails, and other frameworks support this) or through SDK calls in custom code (using your own code base to populate the database).<p>Are you also trying to seed your production environment?