Technical Challenge Your test team wrote SQL queries to test data across different legs of the data process. But they need to execute them manually using a SQL editor, dump them into Excel and compare them by eye (this is known as ‘Sampling’). This process is time-consuming, resource-intensive and inefficient. How can you improve and automate this? The QuerySurge Solution QuerySurge, the Data Testing solution designed for testing Big Data, Data Warehouses, the ETL process, and BI…
Jack and Jill are both managers of software companies with the task of starting a test automation process and testing similar customer-facing web-based applications. Both are focusing on the ROI advocated by the time to market and cost savings. Jack’s approach is to hire junior-level developers and to use open-source test automation technology. Jill’s approach is to start a test automation culture implemented by experienced consultants. Jack’s benefit is cost savings — his advantage is lower hourly rates and no-cost software. Jill’s benefit is…
Though many of us do it just about every day without giving it much thought, driving a vehicle is fairly complex. Many data parameters from both within and outside the vehicle must be constantly monitored. In a sense, driving a vehicle is much like running a business operation; both require that a continuous flow of operational decisions be made. But the driver has it considerably easier than most business decision-makers because the driver must monitor…
The keys to using automated testing to improve speed, quality, and testing are all over the place. To understand the current and future state of automated testing, we spoke to 14 IT professionals intimately familiar with automated testing. We asked them, “What are the keys to using automated testing to improve speed, quality, and security?” We received a wide variety of answers from our respondentss with little to no agreement. Having conducted a number of…