Huw Price

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Huw is the Managing Director and technical guru behind Grid-Tools. Frequently referred to as "Dr Data", Huw is the face of the company.

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A nice video showing how to integrate Datamaker with QTP

Posted on13. Dec, 2011 by Huw Price.

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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

A new feature in Datamaker to identify data pool dependancies

Posted on13. Dec, 2011 by Huw Price.

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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

You can now build and save the defintions of complex transaction cubes in Datamaker

Posted on13. Dec, 2011 by Huw Price.

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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 now adds support for SOA and Rest services

Datamaker now adds support for SOA and Rest services

Posted on13. Dec, 2011 by Huw Price.

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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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If your Data Creation Publish is running a little slowly

Posted on13. Dec, 2011 by Huw Price.

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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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Don’t forget the mass edit function in Data Maker

Don’t forget the mass edit function in Data Maker

Posted on13. Dec, 2011 by Huw Price.

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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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We’re flattered but just to be clear

Posted on23. Feb, 2011 by Huw Price.

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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?

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When is data creation not data creation?

Posted on05. Jan, 2011 by Huw Price.

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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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