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 Huw Price in Test data
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 have been left twiddling their thumbs as they wait for specifications and data feeds to be completed by other teams. It is these kinds of blockages that carry very heavy penalties when it comes to the two biggies – time and money. And to the outside – and poorly informed – world, yet more ‘proof ‘that development projects never come in on time. So, why have we completely ignored the fact that there are automated test data management and data creation tools to speed up this process?
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Huw Price
20. Aug, 2010
We are currently working on a user story for a large bank we worked with recently. If they hadn’t used the Datamaker solution to generate the test data they needed for a large migration project, they would have waited months for the team to create the data in each specific file format. Instead, they finished the project in time, with no delays… I suppose the better question is, why not?