Export and import a list in sharepoint 2013

Question

Hi Team,
I have an share point 2013 application which is an input wizard that allows user to enter some employe information and after user submits the same. these records are stored in form of sharepoint list.
as part of load testing , I need to create this list with more than 100 records. i can use coded ui to enter information and create records, but this will take good amount of time.
is there any way i can import the list to an excel and then add my test records using some  c# code and then import back the excel to share point list.
Can any one help in this regard.
Thanks,

Answer 1

Hi,
There are many options we can select to import the excel file to SharePoint list.
First option,  you can use the “Export to Excel” option to export the list items to a excel file, create records in the excel, then save the file to local machine.
Now, you can use the “ Export Table to SharePoint List” option under the DESIGN table tool in the Excel to export the file to a new list in the SharePoint.
You can also use Excel 2007 Add-in(it works in SharePoint 2013) to achieve the same function.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb462636%28v=office.11%29.aspx
In SharePoint, we can also use the Import Spreadsheet app to import the Excel file to a new SharePoint list.
Site Content->add an app->Import Spreadsheet
What’s more, you can also use the SPImporter tool to import data to SharePoint.
https://spimporter.codeplex.com/
You can also import the Excel data to SharePoint list programmatically.
http://ravimaloth.blogspot.com/2013/06/upload-excel-data-into-sharepoint.html
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/18830.sharepoint-2010-import-data-from-excel-into-a-list-using-powershell.aspx
Thanks & Regards,
Jason
Jason Guo
TechNet Community Support