Picture the scene – a development team who’ve been gathering dust as they wait for valid test data now find they not only have the data they need, but the data contains all the valid and invalid combinations to test their systems. Also, the data will enable them to test more robustly than would have [...]
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Why are we waiting so long for our development and testing projects to finish? Might be time to think a bit more about test data management techniques…
Posted on 20. Aug, 2010 by Huwprice.
Time for an honest ‘hands in the air’ moment. Who amongst you in the development and testing teams have found their projects stalled because of delays ‘upstream’?
From what I’ve seen and heard recently, that should be a sea of hands! We’ve heard of six large scale projects in as many months where the development teams [...]
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Less is Moore – creating an easier route to understanding data flow
Posted on 09. Aug, 2010 by Huwprice.
“It can’t continue forever,” so said Gordon Moore five years ago when asked for a comment about the law to which he gave his name.
Moore’s Law was originally based on an observation that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since the integrated circuit had been invented.
He [...]
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Here’s a quote from Peter Bartram’s new book How To Build A Successful Career In IT: “Today’s IT leaders are multi-skilled and business focused, equally at home discussing shareholder value as they are in the datacentre.”
Bartram interviewed a number of IT professionals at the top of their game and it might not surprise many to [...]
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How did you greet the news that organisations will soon have to notify customers and regulators of any data breaches?
The EU passed its data breach notification rules last October and they will be rolled out to all member states in 2011. Chances are, many of us thought two things…
One – the rules only apply [...]
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It is an impressive number. One zettabyte is equal to one million terabytes, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 individual bytes and a recent study claims that the world’s digital output has now smashed through that barrier.
The rapid expansion of the digital universe is a consequence of social networking and individuals creating their own digital content, such as [...]
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So start with a full copy of your production database for testing and development – no matter the size – use data masking techniques for sensitive data, consider the advantages of subsetting and start from there, right?
Well, there is another way.
With the project objectives clear it is possible to generate data to fit [...]
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Why are you still using copies of production databases for testing?!
Posted on 01. Jun, 2010 by Huwprice.
So what’s it all about? As you sit looking at a new set of testing and development requirements, it can be easy to lose track of the basics.
It should be about application usability; improving customer experience and business efficiencies. All simple stuff but an understanding of the role of each business function and a [...]
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| Huw Price – Director of Grid-Tools Ltd
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