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GT Agile – the consultancy set to revolutionize software development
Oxford, UK – Grid-Tools Limited, the leading vendor of test data management, test data generation and data masking software and solutions is launching an Agile development consultancy division – GT...
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Hey You, Get Off-ah My Cloud!
Who would have thought that a Rolling Stones song written almost 50 years ago could become a technology cliché Who would have thought that a Rolling Stones song written almost 50 years ago could become...
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Are Banks failing the Test?
“The staff don’t know anything,” so said one irritated NatWest customer as money credited to accounts overnight failed to appear on balances the next day. Even though the original technical glitch was...
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Gartner: Top 10 strategic technology trends for 2013
Gartner: Top 10 strategic technology trends for 2013 If some of the top 10 strategic technology trends going into 2013 look familiar it’s because quite a few — like cloud computing and mobile– have...
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Legacy vs. Innovation
We’re all familiar with the mantra that business has to respond to fast-moving customer demands so when Forrester’s Suresh Vittal says there are customer-facing technologies that should be led by the...
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Does Testing need a new Discipline?
I spoke with a Professor of Chemistry recently who talked animatedly not about his own field of expertise but about ‘the Edge of Disciplines’. That the overlap in research and understanding between the...
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Test data and & failure to launch
“You can release a product that sounds good, but today, with social media, with people that are able to talk to each other around the world so very quickly, you really have to have something that...
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The testing is good; it’s just the data that’s bad
Remember Woody Allen in Annie Hall relating the story of two elderly women at a Catskill mountain resort? One of them says: “Boy, the food at this place is really terrible,” and the other one adds,...
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The Test of a Good Idea
Badly managed, overambitious and poor value for money – just some of the terms that National Audit Office (NAO) used when assessing the progress of the government’s flagship welfare reform programme....
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The Challenge of Building a Gold Copy Database
Often used as a euphemism for the ‘perfect set of test data’, the term ‘Gold Copy’ commonly refers to a copy of production, which has been migrated into a development, testing or QA environment....
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Software Testing in Banking and Financial Institutions
Banking and Financial institutions are facing a particular uphill struggle when it comes to development and testing of new systems. Not only do they face problems which arise with the reliance on...
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Trouble Testing Payment Systems?
Here are the top 4 ways we can help you with your Payment Systems testing Did you know that production data typically only offers 10-20% of the attributes required to fully test your payments system?...
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The Challenge of Building a Gold Copy Database
Often used as a euphemism for the ‘perfect set of test data’, the term ‘Gold Copy’ commonly refers to a copy of production, which has been migrated into a development, testing or QA environment....
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Trouble Testing Payment Systems?
Here are the top 4 ways we can help you with your Payment Systems testing Did you know that production data typically only offers 10-20% of the attributes required for effectively testing payment...
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How to bring tested code into production faster
The biggest change to IT in the history of the world “build your test cases at the same time as you design your program!” It is difficult to pick up a piece of marketing material nowadays without the...
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Test Data and Data Visualization’s Revolutionary Tool – the Eyeball!
Data Visualization has been lauded for its usefulness in creating an overview of large data sets but the role it can play in testing should make anyone involved in software delivery sit up and take...
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Data breaches on the rise – so why not go synthetic?
Data breaches are becoming more prevalent, and the legislation should be made clearer and tougher. That is the message which comes out of the Californian Data Breach Report [1], published last month by...
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The top 5 reasons people are choosing to ‘Go Synthetic’ – and why you should too
Synthetic data, or test data generation is a hot topic in the Test Data Management industry at the moment. Here, I have chosen five of the many possible reasons why more and more testing teams are...
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Sainsbury’s Bank IT Failure should be a warning to other new banks
Earlier this month Sainsbury’s Bank experienced IT problems that resulted in customers unable to use their credit cards all day. Cards were declined both in stores and at cash points, leaving customers...
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The Changing Face of the Banking Industry
A new digital only bank, Atom Bank, is set to open in the second half of 2015. It is said that the emergence of digital only banking will pose a threat to the traditional banks as these new banks will...
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