As part of a workshop discussion someone posed the following example to our group of test professionals and asked how we would solve the following problems. I am paraphrasing. How do we insure data quality and integrity at the application programming interface (API) level in the new data warehouse? Note that the solution below is… Continue reading Data-Focused Test Strategy for New Data Warehouse
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Intervention Coming for “I Hate Agile” Crowd
For all of the conferences held in agile’s honor, and the praise it gets from coaches, evangelists, and companies like Skytap, nobody calls it a silver bullet. But there’s one thing we all agree on—agile is very difficult. Whether looking at the culture change required, embracing the continuous integration, delivery and deployment of code, or… Continue reading Intervention Coming for “I Hate Agile” Crowd
Quality Data for Quality Testing
Technology can be an accelerator, but, if not properly tested, it can bring everything to a halt… Software is often intended as an accelerator, to make lives easier while driving up efficiency and efficacy. However, as organizations and individuals come to depend on software more, the greater the impact when it fails. This has been… Continue reading Quality Data for Quality Testing
Cover the Data Coverage Gap with Data Scripting in GT Datamaker
Talking about testing, most of the time we are used to working with sets of data that will be used over and over again. Then a refresh comes to the environment, and again we will have the same data, maybe some changes or addition will come but it will be the same. Most of the… Continue reading Cover the Data Coverage Gap with Data Scripting in GT Datamaker
Test Data Management Maturity Assessment
Test data generation has matured beyond the realm of inputs, as it is described on Wikipedia. Test Data practices must consider the overall quality of the digital assets for a business. The data are not only persistent, they are often the most important IT artifacts for these businesses. With the emphasis on software development in… Continue reading Test Data Management Maturity Assessment
The New Grid-Tools Webinar Series: ‘Lunch and Learn’
Grid-Tools Lunch and Learn webinar series is back by popular demand! Each month we will be hosting a webinar on a variety of different topics, from technical demonstrations to broadcasts which focus on ROI and business benefits. If you would like to be sure that you get the invites to the webinars then click here… Continue reading The New Grid-Tools Webinar Series: ‘Lunch and Learn’
Test Data Management: It’s More than Masking and Subsetting…
Recently, I Googled test data management (TDM). I’m not sure why I was surprised by the results, but I was. The majority of the results on the first page were focused on subsetting and masking from production. This is not the whole picture. Why is subsetting and masking not the only answer? Production copies will… Continue reading Test Data Management: It’s More than Masking and Subsetting…
Implementing Federated Views for Data Matching
Introduction In general terms, the Test Data Matching process finds existing information in our database systems, mostly in production environments, which will be very useful for finding efficient and accurate test data. At the same time, it helps us save time and effort in creating new information from scratch. Several systems have been designed to… Continue reading Implementing Federated Views for Data Matching
Why Create Relational Data for Your Tests?
How many times must a test case be run over and again because the data does not work for the test case? Some other times, the test case executed correctly, but when the code gets into production it crashes because of an unexpected “data behavior” to later discover that the set of data used to… Continue reading Why Create Relational Data for Your Tests?
Forget your own waistline and get your business data in shape this year!
By Becky Saunders, Technical Writer at Grid-Tools We all make New Year’s resolutions usually when we’re nursing hangovers, full up on turkey and mince pies and feeling a couple of stone heavier! But New Year resolutions don’t have to stop at making improvements to ourselves, we can bring new ideas and processes to our jobs… Continue reading Forget your own waistline and get your business data in shape this year!