For public policy, it’s all happening at breakneck speed. Only last April, Intellect, the UK tech trade association, suggested that ICT taught in schools was inadequate. This week, the education secretary Michael Gove announced that the current programme will be scrapped in England from September. Parents of children in secondary schools will be aware that [...]
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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
Posted on 13. Dec, 2011 by Huw Price.
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 [...]
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You can now build and save the defintions of complex transaction cubes in Datamaker
Posted on 13. Dec, 2011 by Huw Price.
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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In Datamaker Release 2.7.6 there a new set of sampling filters to help you identify PII data. Unique columns – picks up columns that are found to be unique according to the data sample GUID columns – columns that have GUID values, any combination of braces/no braces; dashes/no dashes. Empty columns – columns that have [...]


