Highly effective test data management using a data repository
"It is a great benefit for us to be confident that the data we have in our test environments is very much like the data we have in production. Before using Datamaker, the developers usually said that the bugs we found in test environments were a result of the quality of the data we were using. Now the data model we put into the tool is correct and we can rely heavily on this data."
Jochen Westheide,
The ARAG Group
The Grid-Tools test data management repository
What is a Test Data Warehouse?
The Test Data Warehouse is original to Grid-Tools. It was conceived by Grid-Tools senior software developers, who have over 60 years of combined industry experience. It is a complete test data management solution wrapped-up in one package.
The Test Data Warehouse is a data store that holds all of your previously created test data (in multiple formats such as flat files, XML or Excel) and also the rich data created via Datamaker™.
The Test Data Warehouse is fully functional with an open, easy to use interface that helps testers use and re-use their data. The Test Data Warehouse has multiple functions including: date shifting, version control, data explosion, data templates, data inheritance, data validation and data comparison. Testers can inherit existing scenarios and manipulate the new scenarios to quickly reflect the new testing requirements.
The Datamaker™ Test Data Warehouse helps to make the test data process more automated and straight forward eliminating laborious, time consuming and error-prone tasks. Using Datamaker means:
- No more test data in multiple locations
- No more test data left on a USB stick or in spread sheets
- No more manually created test data, or hacking away at copies of production databases and production data
Use the Test Data Warehouse to automate data management functions and keep your test data in a safe environment. It will:
- Apply infrastructure to a complex task
- Allow you to gain control and improve reusability
- Quickly become an invaluable corporate asset
When you create data using Datamaker™, you will get:
- More meaningful, referentially intact data sets
- Vastly improved code and functional coverage
- Data in multiple formats
- Legally compliant data
- Date specific data
- Fully version controlled data
- Bulked up and rich sets of data and much more...
Data-centric driven testing
Test Data Warehouse
STORE - Bring in data (in multiple formats) e.g. flat files, Excel, xml
MANAGE - Central location for data
MANIPULATE - Automatically update all data for new releases
PUBLISH - Use real data or create synthetic data into:
- Major databases and mainframe data sources
- SOA projects
- ERP modules
- Batch
- Flat files
- Capture playback tools