In this edition of the GenRocket Advisor we focus on the test data challenges and solutions confronting a major auto parts retailer that leverages information systems to meet the growing threat of ecommerce competition. By strategically adding stores, increasing parts availably and providing superior customer service, they are successfully ma...

Recapping the 2019 Software Testing Conference We wanted to share a few take-aways from our participation in STC2019 earlier this month. The event was well attended and the GenRocket solution was extremely well received by attendees. Test Data is Hot Test data has always been a topic of interest for anyone in QA, however this show ...

Test Data Management Evolves into Test Data Automation The 2019-20 edition of The World Quality Report, identified two of the top QA management objectives as detecting software defects before going-live and implementing quali...

During 2019, GenRocket has been called upon to solve complex test data challenges for some of the largest QA environments in the world. In every case, we not only found a way to meet some very demanding customer requirements, we also greatly expanded the functionality of our platform along the way. This problem-solving approach has taken our abilit...

This year we are excited to participate in the 19th Annual International Software Testing Conference in Bengaluru, India on December 5 and 6. STC 2019 is built on the theme of Architecting Continuous Quality and brings together practitioners, thinkers, and thought leaders to explore challenges and showcase innovations that advance the state of soft...

Earlier this summer, we announced the availability of our X12 EDI test data solution for healthcare markets to our partner community. The goal of that announcement was to provide partners with early access to new X12 EDI test data solution so they could learn more and also introduce GenRocket’s solution to healthcare customers who had an immediat...

For this edition of the GenRocket Advisor, we have prepared a case study to examine the automation and acceleration of test data provisioning at a major financial services company. The QA team needed comprehensive test data to ensure payment processing applications are rigorously tested for defects, compliance with data interchange standards an...

We are excited to announce a powerful new test data solution for the healthcare industry from GenRocket. The X12 EDI Test Data Solution is a comprehensive add-on package for the recently announced Enterprise Edition of GenRocket TDG™. X12 is the Electronic Data Interchange standard used by all health care organizations in North America. It def...

We have just completed a new eBook on a very hot topic for anyone in the field of software quality assurance: How Test Data Generation (TDG) integrates with CI/CD pipelines and test automation tools to unlock the full potential of accelerated software development. Achieving Test Automation Synergy provides a step-by-step look into the world...

We are excited to announce the arrival of GenRocket Editions, a new pricing and packaging plan for GenRocket’s TDG technology that provides full scalability for the GenRocket platform from small testing groups to an unlimited enterprise-wide deployment. The new pricing strategy follows the industry standard three-tiered model for increasing sc...

The 2018-19 edition of the World Quality Report contains comprehensive research on the key trends shaping quality assurance and testing. The report examines the operational benefits realized by QA teams from their use of test automation tools. Based on a survey of 1700 QA professionals across 10 different industry sectors and 32 countries, the st...

What are some quick wins and scalable strategies QA professionals can use to maximize their test automation ROI? It starts with choosing the right tests to automate while leveraging the power of Test Data Generation (TDG) technology to maximize testing speed and effectiveness Software tests that are performed manually, on a repeated basis, s...

GenRocket Partners are essential to the success of GenRocket solutions in the marketplace. Our partners invest their valuable time, energy and resources into cultivating business opportunities for Test Data Generation (TDG), understanding customer requirements, formulating technical solutions and closing them as revenue-generating business deals. ...

Did you know that 85% of QA organizations are implementing test automation, but only 4% have fully automated 90% or more of their tests? The friction encountered during the deployment of test automation is the outdated approach for provisioning test data. In this article we explore the idea of a fully integrated test automaton environment. ...

This edition of the GenRocket Advisor is devoted to the concept of GenRocket Presets, a new enterprise productivity feature that simplifies the task of supporting demos and POCs and accelerates the creation of more customized test data projects. With GenRocket Presets, anyone on the QA or Sales team and provide a quick demonstration of GenRocket...

The dominos are falling. As software development evolves to fully embrace strategies for increasing the speed of development, a sequence of events has been set in motion. Faster release cycles are driving market demand for test automation tools that need test data on-demand and in real-time. Test Data Generation technology is in position to me...

A study conducted by IBM in 2016 found that 30% to 60% of a tester’s time is spent provisioning test data using traditional Test Data Management (TDM) features and functions. Two thirds of provisioning time is spent manually creating test data while one third of that time is spent cloning production data and manually cleansing it for use in a tes...

Hi <<First Name>>, We have released a new GenRocket Runtime and wanted to notify you. What is the GenRocket Runtime? The GenRocket Runtime is the part of the GenRocket ecosystem that is used to execute Scenarios and generate data on your local machine or test automation server. ...

GenRocket has developed a number of new features to enable enterprise-class deployment of its Test Data Generation (TDG) platform. In our mid-November issue of The GenRocket Advisor we provided a checklist of use cases you can follow to identify applications where TDG can have immediate impact on testing productivity. We've renamed the document tha...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are two of the hottest buzzwords in the field of Information Technology. AI is behind the growing popularity of the Virtual Digital Assistant (VDA) as popularized by Google Home, Siri, Cortana and Alexa and used by consumers to answer questions and automate everyday tasks. Businesses are in...

In this week’s edition of The GenRocket Advisor, we would like to share an article by GenRocket CEO Garth Rose published in the November edition of TEST Magazine. The article outlines top QA testing challenges and gauges the value of real-time synthetic test data versus production test data as solutions for those challenges. TEST Magazine was ...

Before we introduce today’s topic, we would like to announce a new name for our partner newsletter and an expansion of its audience. Going forward, the GenRocket partner newsletter will be known as The GenRocket Advisor and will be sent to all GenRocket partners as well as to our growing community of GenRocket customers. The purpose of The Gen...

As QA departments introduce Test Data Generation (TDG) into their testing environment, they will need to support legacy Test Data Management (TDM) functions that are in place to manage their test data. One of these functions, data refresh, is necessary to keep test data current so it reflects any changes that have been made to the production databa...

A global payment processing and Point of Sale (POS) technology company serving small, medium and large-scale businesses was looking for a secure and fully automated test data solution for their application testing. The company processes over 79 billion transactions annually for ecommerce and point-of-sale environments in 118 countries. As a ...

IT executives must overcome many challenges as they strive to continuously enhance their applications, reduce time to market, improve quality, and control cost. Movements like DevOps, Agile, CI/CD and an assortment of automation tools are designed to provide answers for these challenges. At the center of the discussion is Jenkins, an open source...

The global healthcare IT market is expected to reach USD 223.16 billion by 2023, at a CAGR of 13.7% during the forecast period of 2018 to 2023 (Meticulous Research). Healthcare is a huge market that continues to grow at a fast pace and represents a major opportunity for software testing and integration firms. This is especially true for GenRock...