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TestBase 3.0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Aging data is very straightforward. You can select to move dates forward or backward and by how much. This will then be applied during the next data generation.
A data table is a compiled binary that TestBase uses. You can start from either a text file or a database table and generate a new data table. On my small system, I didn't see any appreciable difference in performance between a data table and something coming straight from your database. However you may not always have that data available, so you would be better off to generate a data table in this case.
Simple, straightforward, and flexible. TestBase takes all of the work out of setting up a testing environment. It provides sample data that is understandable and realistic without forcing you to use production data. It also allows you to generate a variety of test scenarios. What happens when the number of customers doubles? What happens if my orders triple? At what data volume am I going to start having serious performance issues. Your data set may be small at the moment, but TestBase can generate a much larger set of data to enable testing the performance and functionality of a system as the data volume grows. On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd give it an 8.8. (I had to subtract a point because they made me create an ODBC datasource and the other .2 is because no product is perfect.) TestBase is produced by Tenerus Corporation. As of the writing of this article, the price for a single user copy was $695. |
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