Who are Grid-Tools?
The leading vendor in data creation, data masking and database subsetting
Headquartered in Oxford, UK (with offices in the USA and India - and representation internationally), Grid-Tools are specialists in data masking, data creation and test data management. Our experienced personnel have been writing and developing solutions for large companies in both the private and public sectors for nearly 30 years. Through the company’s expressed methodologies, like maximizing your code coverage, using black and white box testing and All-Pairs data explosion, Grid-Tools promises that you will have better results and be creating better data within 3-4 days and reduce your test cycles by 1/3.
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The Grid-Tools Datamaker suite includes a wide range of tools for test data management including such innovative products as Datamaker, a revolutionary tool that creates and publishes quality test data from scratch whilst keeping the relationships and referential integrity of production environments. An invaluable tool for testing and development, Datamaker places the data into a central repository so it can be used, inherited, manipulated and re-used across an entire organization. Voted “Most Innovative Testing Tool of 2008” by QA Guild, the functionality Datamaker provides has proven to be innovative, efficient and different than any other test data generation product in the market. You simply will not find another tool like it.
Datamaker offers the flexibility of database subsetting, data coverage, data creation, data archiving, data quality and data masking. Any work you do in one component can be reused in the other. The Grid-Tools methods for managing and creating data can be used for testing and development, demos, training environments and more. Using these methods alone or in combination offers flexibility and efficiency. It is also the best way to make sure all of your boundaries are covered.
In doing research on Test Data Management tools - you'll find that Grid-Tools are the only vendor offering three methods for creating, obfuscating and managing data for non-production environments (click here for information on the benefits and features of our methods):
- Database Subsetting
- Data Obfuscation (data masking and data compliance)
- Data Generation (data creation or test data creation)
Within a short span of time, Grid-Tools has picked up significant momentum and an impressive list of well known and respected customers and strategic partners world-wide.
The Grid-Tools methodology consists of using the “data-centric” approach to testing whereby, our focus is to ensure the quality of the test data you are using is of the right quality for successful testing.
Go to our Glossary Section to get definitions on our expressed methods, and visit our Investment Justification section for user stories, customer testimonies and technical reviews.
View our Corporate Presentation for more information or go to our Reading Room to download our latest flyers, technical papers and white papers.
Click here to learn more about our Technical Director, Huw Price. Grid-Tools supported databases and data sources
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“It was easy to train our testers to use Datamaker. The tool has an intuitive look and feel and they acquired the principles of the Datamaker operation quickly and were up and running in a short time with very little support.”
Chris Mercer, Vocalink
“In using Datamaker, testing engagements or projects involving critical data driven testing in large volumes can be delivered at lower service costs and lower effort.” Shashidhar Tangirala, Team Lead, AppLabs India
"Datamaker potentially yields up to 40% ROI for SMEs and 60% ROI for large enterprises due to the following factors:
- Ease of use
- Lesser cost
- Reduced manpower
- Reusability
- Integrated testing efficiency". QAGuild
"GT Datamaker was cost justified on a savings of one hour per developer per week ... we are already saving more than that per day!" UK Central Government
"Without the Grid-Tools data generation product, the tight delivery dates for our project could certainly have slipped." Applied Card Technologies
“Datamaker can bring value to an organization by reducing test cycle times. This can be explained in the following example, which I faced in one of my projects.
Requirement: Creation of data for load testing. As part of load testing on a desktop application, I was asked to insert data in three tables with 100, 1000 and 10, 000 rows.
Conventional way: A simple spreadsheet was used to populate the data by referring to the schema of the database objects. We populated dml statements in a spreadsheet and converted this to an SQL file and then executed the file. It took the effort of two resources for 1.5 days.
Datamaker: This can be done in few minutes by using Datamaker” Suresh Jetty, Quality Test Engineer, Satyam Services
