The majority of automated tests fail, regardless of the tool, because of an inability to provision data in the right state, to the right place, at the right time. Therefore, we are pleased to announce the addition of powerful new test matching functionality to our flagship solution, Datamaker™.
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When is test data creation not test data generation?
Answer: when test data are not generated by monkeys. Or to put it another way, when test data creation tools create data with personalities. This isn’t data with a sense of humour (although a smile at the end might actually be the result of using such endowed test data sets) – its the opposite to [...]
Continue readingSo, you need to create test data…
Let’s face it; nothing will emerge to meet the needs of our fast-changing business world without it. Actually, forget ‘fast-changing’, it’s regularly set at break-neck… But anyone working as part of a development and testing team will also know that the demands of the ‘brief’ set before them will rarely be met with ease. Over [...]
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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 [...]
Continue readingTrue 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 [...]
Continue readingSo, 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 one issue changing our [...]
Continue readingMy thoughts on test data design
It’s a very compelling story giving us the first truly end to end solution. All the other solutions miss the test design portion and the test data generation portion – the two key pieces that ensure the effectiveness of the testing (i.e. why we are testing in the first place). After going through the material [...]
Continue readingSynthetic test data versus masked test data
Another interesting topic to address is the trade-off between synthetic test data and scrubbed or masked test data. I got into this discussion with someone today who has a strong background in security related issues. He was saying that scrubbed or de-identified test data can be un-scrubbed via various methods – e.g. reverse engineering the [...]
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