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 repository which makes up a definitive part of the functionality of the Datamaker™. The repository can hold all of your previously created test data (in multiple formats like flat files, xml or excel) and also the data created via Datamaker™.
The Test Data Warehouse is full of its own functionality; an interface with numerous commands that help testers use and re-use the data inside. Functions like date shifting, version control, All-Pairs data explosion, data templates, data inheritance, date checking, data validation and much more. Testers can inherit test cases and manipulate the cases based on their testing criteria.
The Datamaker™ Test Data Warehouse helps to make the test data process more automated and straight forward, as opposed to previously laborious, time consuming and error-prone tasks;
Use the Test Data Warehouse to automate these functions and keep your test data in a safe environment. It will help you to:
When you publish data from the Datamaker™ Test Data Warehouse you will get;

Test Data Warehouse
STORE - Bring in data (in multiple formats) e.g. flat files, excel s/sheets, xml
MANAGE - Central location for data
MANIPULATE - Automatically update all data for new releases
PUBLISH - Use real data or create synthetic data into;