You use datapools to supply realist data and to stress an application with a realistic amount of data.
When you create a data-driven test by using Functional Tester, you select the objects in an application-under-test to data-drive. Functional Tester creates a datapool in which you can edit and add data. You can use a single test script repeatedly with varying input and response data.
You can use the datapool feature in several ways:
Every test script that you create has a private test datapool associated with it. The initial private test datapool is a placeholder and is empty until you data-drive a test script, or add new data to it.
You can create a shared
datapool by creating a new datapool, or you can associate a datapool with
several test scripts to share a datapool.