www.grid-tools.com/video/DM-QTP-INTEROPERATIBILITY-GT/DM-QTP-INTEROPERATIBILITY-GT.html This is a nice video that outlines how you would improve your back management of data in QTP
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A new feature in Datamaker to identify data pool dependancies
If you click on a data pool in Datamaker you can now see what data pools are dependant upon it. The inheritance feature in Datamaker is fundamental to how data pools are built, they allow user to inherit sets of data and then add in their own variations. This feature allows the editor of the [...]
Continue readingYou can now build and save the defintions of complex transaction cubes in Datamaker
Datamaker allows you to choose a transaction chain of tables and select attributes that are useful for filtering and analyzing data. The cube views can be built and saved inside Datamaker, each view can contain information about specific attribute or key information. The cube can be used to: Analyze coverge metrics of occurences of different [...]
Continue readingDatamaker now adds support for SOA and Rest services
Datamaker version 2.7.6 now allows you to select data directly from web services. New functions have been added to the data painter screen, randwadl, seqwadl etc. Simply paste the service address into the function and the service will be executed. You can then choose the xpath to the appropriate response elements and they will be [...]
Continue readingIf your Data Creation Publish is running a little slowly
The steps to investigate are as follows: Open the data pool in the editor and choose row 1 edit. Click on the preview button and verify there are no errors (marked as red). If the preview is slow it may be that you are using an innefficient piece of SQL to retrieve data, look at [...]
Continue readingDon’t forget the mass edit function in Data Maker
Mass edit function In the right click menu option in the editor you can choose to apply mass edits to data pools. This feature can be useful when you are importing existing pools of test data and wish to apply any kind of global edit or when moving data between versions. To change a null [...]
Continue readingWe’re flattered but just to be clear
An Austrian testing company will not be buying us any day soon! Too much of a culture clash I fear. I wonder where these rumours do come from?
Continue readingWhen is data creation not data creation?
Answer: when it’s marketing hype! If you look at a lot of large companies’ web sites it can be hard to work out fact from fiction. Their marketing department (no surely not!) will often add features that they think SHOULD exist in their products when they don’t actually exist. Basically - if the competition has [...]
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