Another use of the Devel module besides all the great functionality we discussed in Chapter 3 is to generate test 'dummy' content, taxonomy categories, and users for your website. This functionality is part of the Devel module and to confirm that you can use this, go to your admin modules list and check to make sure the Devel generate module is enabled.
To generate users, nodes, and taxonomy terms for your site go to the Generate items main page in your site admin. That will launch a page with links to Generate categories, Generate content, and Generate users. As we already have some content on our site (that I originally implemented by using Generate content), we're going to try generating some test users for our website. Follow these steps to generate users: