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What Are Data Quality Dimensions?
"A recent survey by TDWI found that 66% of organizations are looking for ways to improve data quality and trust. Data Validation using Data Quality...
How to Perform Continuous Data Validation?
At a recent TDWI virtual summit on “Data Integration and Data Quality”, I attended a session titled “Continuous Data Validation: Five Best...
Pitfalls of Cloud Data Migration
" 36% of data migration projects kept to the forecasted budget, and only 46% were delivered on time " -Forbes This statistic shows a grim picture of...
How Do You Automate Big Data Testing? Everything To Know
Big Data has passed the tipping point. It's no longer a fringe interest being practiced by data scientists. The Big Data industry is currently on...
Bookmarks Development and Testing
Tableau, Power BI, OBIEE, Cognos, Qlikview, Looker, Micro Strategy, and other developing BI Visualization technologies have pushed business...
Slicers Testing in Power BI Report
One of our clients decided to change their reporting platform to Power BI and started rebuilding their reports. However, they had a large number of...
DataOps Suite: Validate Rest API Response
DataOps Suite supports data validation for different kinds of Data sources. Along with other Data sources also it has support for Rest API. DataFlow...
Data Validation for Snowflake
Migrating to Snowflake Cloud Data Warehouse Migration from a legacy data warehouse such as Netezza to a cloud based Snowflake data warehouse...
Testing Type 2 Slowly Changing Dimensions using ETL Validator
Type 2 Slowly Changing Dimensions are used in the Data Warehouses for tracking changes to the data by preserving historical values. This is achieved...
Connecting to Mongo DB using Apache Drill in ETL Validator
Over the last few years, we have been working with a number of customers across various industries such as Life Sciences, Financial Services, Higher...
7 Incredible Test Automation Plans for Tableau using BI Validator
It is nice to see Tableau maintain its leadership position in Gartner’s magic quadrant for the 3rd consecutive year. At Datagaps, this is pretty...
Data Testing Automation for Salesforce using ETL Validator
Over the last few years, the Salesforce platform has become an incredible force in the market for various reasons. Of course, the most obvious use...
Database (Backend) Testing for Oracle R12 Upgrade
Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) R12 is a significant new version with valuable new features and capabilities. Although there is an upgrade path from...
Testing Automation of OBIEE Subject Areas
Subject Areas in Oracle OBI. Subject Areas in Oracle OBI are great for business users. They hide the complexity involved in warehousing projects and...
ETL Validator for Data Migration Testing
Recently, I stumbled upon a relatively old article on Data Migration from TDWI that explains what it is, how it is different from other integration...
Simulating load for BI Stress Testing
One of our customer is planning to roll out new BI functionality to 2000 additional users. They were concerned whether their current BI...
The Role of BI Validator in Major BI Upgrades
Every few years the BI vendors have a major release that forces the companies using these products to uptake a complex BI upgrade project. For...
The role of BI Validator in “In-Place” Upgrades
As most of us in the BI community are aware, In-Place upgrades are fairly common when clients want to go through minor upgrades (e.g OBIEE 11.1.1.7...
ETL Validator for Testing Transactional Systems
Most of the use cases that we encounter are for DW scenarios. However, recently, we are also seeing many scenarios for testing transactional...
Why ETL Validator when there is Python?
I am not sure if you ever wrote Python but it is one of the coolest language out there. Easy to learn, easy to write and do yeah, easy to read!...
Difference between ETL and Database Testing
ETL testing applies to Data Warehouses or Data integration projects while Database Testing applies to any database holding data (typically...
BIWA SIG 2014
We just came back last night from BIWA SIG (http://www.biwasummit.com), a BI related event that was held in Redwood City, CA. The organizers did a...
Database Testing – Ensure acceptable variance in Data differences
At a recent event, one of the prospects at the attendees came over to our booth and asked me to demonstrate a use case that was kind of interesting....
OBI Dashboard Regression Testing
Below is a simple and real example that illustrates how you can leverage BI Validator for regression testing of dashboards. Assume that you have 250...
OBIEE 11g upgrade : Fixing consistency check errors during RPD Upgrade
This article walks you through the consistency check warnings found in the BI Apps RPD after running the 11.1.1.7 upgrade assistant on an 10.1.3.4.1...