HuwpricecloseAuthor: Huwprice
Name: Huw Price
Email: huw.price@grid-tools.com
Site: http://www.grid-tools.com
About: With nearly a 30 year career, Huw Price has been the lead technical architect for several US and European software companies. Specializing in test automation tools, he has launched numerous innovative products which have re-cast the testing model used in the software industry. As well as building new products, he has become a serial entrepreneur building-up three software companies and selling their technology to larger, less agile competitors.
Huw has provided high-level architecture design support to multinational banks, major utility vendors and health care providers. A strong believer in balancing pragmatism with a visionary approach, he has been able to rapidly bring new products to market while maintaining strong quality control.
Huw’s newest venture, Grid-Tools, has quickly redefined how large organizations need to approach their testing strategy. Voted “Most Innovative Testing Tool of 2008” by QA Guild, Grid-Tools has introduced a strong data-centric approach to testing, launching new concepts such as “Data Objects”, “Data Inheritance” and “A Central Test Data Warehouse.” Currently working with leading edge testing companies such as Fiorano, Facilita, AQA and Emprix, Grid-Tools is building on the strategy of improving automation tools and associated structured methodologies.See Authors Posts (5)
April 20th, 2010Tags: Data masking| test data| Test Data Management
Magical mystery tour
Roll up, roll up. I’m going on a mystery tour and I’m inviting you along. I’m going to get in touch with the financial organisations that are part of my life and I’m going to ask them about what journey my personal details can expect to take once they become test data.
It should prove [...]
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VanessaHowardcloseAuthor: VanessaHoward
Name: Vanessa Howard
Email: marketing@grid-tools.com
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March 31st, 2010Tags: Test Data Creation| test data generation| Test Data Management
Green Giant
It is one thing to turn down the thermostat a notch or two at home and think about buying that hybrid car but how is your carbon footprint shaping up in the work environment?
Not good by most measures but the real shock comes with the realisation that something as simple (cough) as data testing [...]
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HuwpricecloseAuthor: Huwprice
Name: Huw Price
Email: huw.price@grid-tools.com
Site: http://www.grid-tools.com
About: With nearly a 30 year career, Huw Price has been the lead technical architect for several US and European software companies. Specializing in test automation tools, he has launched numerous innovative products which have re-cast the testing model used in the software industry. As well as building new products, he has become a serial entrepreneur building-up three software companies and selling their technology to larger, less agile competitors.
Huw has provided high-level architecture design support to multinational banks, major utility vendors and health care providers. A strong believer in balancing pragmatism with a visionary approach, he has been able to rapidly bring new products to market while maintaining strong quality control.
Huw’s newest venture, Grid-Tools, has quickly redefined how large organizations need to approach their testing strategy. Voted “Most Innovative Testing Tool of 2008” by QA Guild, Grid-Tools has introduced a strong data-centric approach to testing, launching new concepts such as “Data Objects”, “Data Inheritance” and “A Central Test Data Warehouse.” Currently working with leading edge testing companies such as Fiorano, Facilita, AQA and Emprix, Grid-Tools is building on the strategy of improving automation tools and associated structured methodologies.See Authors Posts (5)
March 31st, 2010Tags: data creation| Data masking| de-identify data| test data| Test Data Management
Why masked data is no good!
I’m a keen bright developer working for a bank working on a new report, the DBAs have given me a full copy of masked production data. To test I need to find some data that’s changed over time. Where should I start? I think my boss has just had a big pay [...]
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HuwpricecloseAuthor: Huwprice
Name: Huw Price
Email: huw.price@grid-tools.com
Site: http://www.grid-tools.com
About: With nearly a 30 year career, Huw Price has been the lead technical architect for several US and European software companies. Specializing in test automation tools, he has launched numerous innovative products which have re-cast the testing model used in the software industry. As well as building new products, he has become a serial entrepreneur building-up three software companies and selling their technology to larger, less agile competitors.
Huw has provided high-level architecture design support to multinational banks, major utility vendors and health care providers. A strong believer in balancing pragmatism with a visionary approach, he has been able to rapidly bring new products to market while maintaining strong quality control.
Huw’s newest venture, Grid-Tools, has quickly redefined how large organizations need to approach their testing strategy. Voted “Most Innovative Testing Tool of 2008” by QA Guild, Grid-Tools has introduced a strong data-centric approach to testing, launching new concepts such as “Data Objects”, “Data Inheritance” and “A Central Test Data Warehouse.” Currently working with leading edge testing companies such as Fiorano, Facilita, AQA and Emprix, Grid-Tools is building on the strategy of improving automation tools and associated structured methodologies.See Authors Posts (5)
March 31st, 2010Tags: test data| Test Data Creation| Test Data Management
True or False?
There is that old joke about a guy lost in the countryside who stops and asks for directions only to be told: “If I were you, I wouldn’t start from here.”
I thought about that baffling wisdom during a conversation about the use of production data in testing and development. If you were to ask [...]
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Name: Vanessa Howard
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February 26th, 2010Tags: Data masking| data obfuscation| data security| Synthetic test data
Long arm of the Law
Sometimes governments can be forward-thinking – no, really bear with me – and initiatives arrive you can quietly applaud.
The Welsh Assembly Government’s e-Crime Wales is a partnership of organisations, agencies and the police – that it has dedicated police business liaison officers is thought to be a world’s first.
Data loss and security breaches [...]
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Jess3589closeAuthor: Jess3589
Name: Jessica Jones
Email: jessica.jones@grid-tools.com
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About: Jessica Jones is the Director of Marketing and PR for Grid-Tools. She also manages the website, forum and blog. Contact Jessica for any web-related issues at: jessica.jones@grid-tools.com.See Authors Posts (4)
February 2nd, 2010Tags: Data masking| data masking HIPAA| HIPAA 5010 test data| HIPAA data compliance| HIPAA test data
HIPAA QA and Grid-Tools Form Joint Venture Enabling Advanced Test Data Solutions Offering Greater Interoperability Across HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10
February 1, 2010 – Naples, FL., London, UK;
HIPAA QA, Inc., a strategic healthcare IT quality assurance service provider focused on delivering best-in-class interoperable testing solutions for HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10 is pleased to announce a joint venture partnership with Grid-Tools Limited, a leading global vendor of data creation, data masking and test data management software.
The [...]
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Jess3589closeAuthor: Jess3589
Name: Jessica Jones
Email: jessica.jones@grid-tools.com
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About: Jessica Jones is the Director of Marketing and PR for Grid-Tools. She also manages the website, forum and blog. Contact Jessica for any web-related issues at: jessica.jones@grid-tools.com.See Authors Posts (4)
January 25th, 2010Tags: Data masking| data masking methods| data masking techniques| de-identify sensitive data
Using data masking to create ‘anonymous’ datasets
Yesterday morning I woke to find an interesting article in ‘The Observer’ about anonymizing or masking personal data records. This turned out to be somewhat ironic considering I wrote two blogs on this very topic just last week!
The article, written by Anushka Asthana (Policy Editor), discussed the concerns around using data masking or “anonymization techniques” [...]
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Jess3589closeAuthor: Jess3589
Name: Jessica Jones
Email: jessica.jones@grid-tools.com
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About: Jessica Jones is the Director of Marketing and PR for Grid-Tools. She also manages the website, forum and blog. Contact Jessica for any web-related issues at: jessica.jones@grid-tools.com.See Authors Posts (4)
January 21st, 2010Tags: data creation| Data masking| data masking methods| Test Data Creation| Test Data Management
So, why are you still using data masking?
Most of us have no idea when it comes to figuring out ways to acquire the right kind of data we need for any type of test or development project. We’re lost. We’ve been taking copies of our live environments for years. It’s the only method we know.
There is only [...]
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Name: James Koopmann
Email: james.koopmann@jameskoopmann.com
Site: http://www.jameskoopmann.com
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December 9th, 2009
When security is a concern, synthetic data generation is unmatched
Gartner reports that more than 80% of companies will use live production data for nonproduction purposes. This can include BI, QA, Development, and Testing. Clearly we all know by now the problems with moving production data around to non-production and non-secure environments. I mean really, how many times do we have to read about data theft? The problem here lies in the fact that these systems need data. So why do we just copy production data? I’ll tell you, it’s just darn too easy to get what you want and for the most part intentions to not leak information are usually good.
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Name: James Koopmann
Email: james.koopmann@jameskoopmann.com
Site: http://www.jameskoopmann.com
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November 13th, 2009Tags: application performance| database performance| synthetic| Synthetic test data
Grid-Tools brings objects to synthetic data generation
Developing an application to meet business needs relies not only on technology but also on the ability to test the technology used. In a recent study, Gartner identified key reasons why projects fail. Within the top 5 reasons it was recognized that “Too many project changes resulted in an overly complex system that was hard to test.” Likewise, Gartner also recognized a “hit list” of the most common problems associated with the increased risk of failures in SOA projects included “no proof of concept and no stress tests”.
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