Patent ID: 8650545

Claim:
A method for facilitating deduplication product testing in a computing environment by a processor in communication with a memory device, comprising: initializing a definition file, the definition file defining at least one file characteristic of a file addressed during deduplication test file creation resulting in an expression of a predefined deduplication factor, the at least one file characteristic including at least one of a rate of data change in the file and an amount of precompressed data in the file; generating at least one deduplication test file based on the definition file; providing the at least one deduplication test file to a testing environment in the computing environment, wherein the at least one deduplication test file is accessed by the testing environment; processing the at least one deduplication test file through the deduplication product testing such that the at least one deduplication test file exhibits the predefined deduplication factor; incorporating the at least one deduplication test file into a deduplication fileset; and testing the deduplication fileset, including the at least one deduplication test file, in the testing environment to generate a plurality of data points corresponding to the predefined deduplication factor.