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Intense interest in synthetic data was initially triggered by the need for data variety and volume in software testing. Now it’s accelerating with new applications in ETL, Big Data analytics, IoT, and machine learning. When synthetic data is used for software testing, there are two very different approaches: A synthetic data replica is pr...

Testing today’s complex multi-tiered systems requires quality test data for many diverse types of application environments. They include real-time messages exchanged between API-connected subsystems, complex data feeds from external systems, and referentially intact data tables queried from back-end databases. GenRocket is unique in its abilit...

GenRocket is continuously enhancing the user experience for its Test Data Automation solution. Our goal is to simplify the way users increasingly interact with GenRocket’s sophisticated capabilities as part of a streamlined self-service test data platform. Our latest enhancement is a significant step forward called G-Graphics, a powerful visua...

In GenRocket, the first step a test data engineer or data architect takes when designing synthetic data is to model the data environment used by an application under test. GenRocket has many ways to help you to model your data. In fact, there are 10 different ways to set up a data model into the GenRocket platform, depending on your requirements. ...

This week we published a new web page detailing the many security provisions that have been designed into the GenRocket platform. This information will provide security officers and business stakeholders with a solid understanding of GenRocket’s secure hybrid cloud computing environment and how it delivers unmatched data privacy and security for ...

In traditional Test Data Management, the test data lifecycle is based on the premise that some or all of the data used for testing is sourced from production. The use of production data requires a strict lifecycle management regimen to ensure test data is continuously: Secure and compliant with all data privacy laws Up to date in terms of i...

One of the hottest trends in software quality assurance is the use of synthetic data to augment or replace production data for testing core applications. In regulated industries, like financial services, synthetic data eliminates the risk of exposing any Personally Identifiable Information (PII) that might be contained in a production database. ...

The Guardian recently reported a massive Internet outage affecting many prominent websites including Amazon, CNN, Hulu, The New York Times as well as their own online news site. The outage lasted for 1 hour, taking down major websites, and leaving millions of online visitors with nothing more than an obscure message: “Error 503 service unavailabl...

With GenRocket’s G-Subset, testers are able to intelligently query a source database to produce a data subset, replace sensitive data values with synthetically generated data values, and insert the data subset into an identical destination database using the same format and data model. G-Subset already supports Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL and Postgr...

In this week’s GenRocket Advisor, we offer insights and information to help you better understand the rocket science behind GenRocket’s synthetic test data generation platform. We invite you to listen to a very informative conversation with technology executive management consultant George Hamblen in the latest edition of the pod...

In traditional Test Data Management, the test data lifecycle is based on the premise that some or all data used for testing is sourced from production. The use of production data requires a strict lifecycle management regimen to ensure test data is continuously: Secure and compliant with all data privacy laws Up to date in terms of its data...

In our previous newsletter, we provided part 1 of our update on new features added to GenRocket during the month of April. In this edition we continue that update with a discussion of a major platform enhancement. G-Repository is an important new capability that increases the security, scalability and ease of use of GenRocket’s Test Data Automati...

Each month GenRocket adds new features to its Test Data Automation solution to make it the most versatile platform for generating synthetic data for any category of test data automation. Here is part 1 of our April update. We’ll add to this list in part 2 of our monthly update next week. Named Server License Update Software Testers ...

GenRocket represents a new approach for realizing the vision of on-demand, self-service test data. It challenges QA professionals to think differently about how to provision synthetic data for meeting any test automation challenge. Up to now, users of the platform would enroll in GenRocket University, take a series of online courses, and get certif...

The use of synthetic data in test automation has experienced an extreme level of attention and adoption during the past year. QA organizations in every business sector are now evaluating and deploying synthetic data at every stage of the SDLC, from unit testing to integration and system testing. Why has synthetic data become so popular? ...

GenRocket has been very busy rolling out new features for its Synthetic Test Data Automation platform in 2021. As you may recall, we did a major announcement of our enterprise-class self-service modules in February, followed by a technology partnership announcement with Delphix in March. We thought it would be helpful to summarize these exciting...

Organizations are investing heavily in digital transformation, Big Data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning. However, many of these systems will experience costly and preventable problems with software quality. In a recent study, The Cost of Poor Software Quality in the US: A 2020 Report, CISQ estimates a staggering $2.08 trilli...

Today GenRocket will announce a technology alliance with Delphix, the pioneer in programmable data infrastructure, featuring GenRocket’s Intelligent Data Subsetting solution. The alliance creates a win-win for customers who desire a fast and scalable Data Virtualization solution for provisioning masked production test data combined with market...

In case you missed last week’s Enterprise Product Announcement and Customer Briefing, here’s an on-demand recording of the full information-packed session. It provides a presentation by Garth Rose, Co-founder and CEO, and a live demonstration by Hycel Taylor, Co-founder and CTO. We’ve also assembled some helpful resources so you can better...

In case you missed yesterday’s Enterprise Launch Announcement webinar for channel partners, here’s an on-demand recording of the full information-packed session. It provides a presentation by Garth Rose, Co-founder and CEO, and a live demonstration by Hycel Taylor, Co-founder and CTO. We’ve also assembled some helpful resources so you can ...

If you haven’t yet registered for our Enterprise Product Announcement webinar, here’s a reminder. And if you have registered, please bring your questions and comments to this customer-only briefing and live demonstration of this major new product release. GenRocket is about to release enterprise-class functionality to its market-leading Te...

In last week’s GenRocket Advisor, we announced new pricing for enterprise scalability. We are thrilled with the very positive reaction we are receiving to this 5-tier price plan, its competitive entry price, and its high value for money as customers expand their GenRocket platform. This week, we are excited to announce our first all-partner webin...

We are excited to announce new pricing for GenRocket’s industry-leading Self Service Synthetic Test Data solution. As our customers dramatically increase their use of synthetic test data, GenRocket is responding with sophisticated features that enable enterprise scalability. We’re putting together a webinar to announce these powerful new capabi...

Agile and DevOps have become standard operating procedure for modern software development. But for most organizations, enterprise-wide deployment is still a work in progress. 54% struggle with the process of implementing Agile at scale and 79% have failed to reach the more advanced deployment stages of DevOps. To bridge the gap, enterprises are ...

GenRocket is growing. This past year, we have doubled our sales, increased our partner community and expanded our customer base like never before. With rapid growth comes the need for responsive customer support to answer questions and solve problems. So we created a new GenRocket support page on our website to handle any issue that comes up as cu...

Here’s a brief summary of the new capabilities we’ve added to the GenRocket Test Data Automation platform during the month of October. To learn about them, click on the link below to view the knowledge base article. There are now more than 950 knowledge base articles to help you learn and understand all about the power of GenRocket! Automati...

GenRocket is publicly announcing a major enhancement to our EDI Test Data Management offering with the availability of a new EDI Solution Accelerator. It includes a bundle of ready-to-use EDI Transaction Set Examples that can be quickly tailored for any X12 EDI implementation. During the past year, we’ve been working closely with healthcare in...

When testing systems that process transactions or use business logic as part of an end-to-end workflow, QA teams often provision test data from a production data source as opposed to generating synthetic data. The reason is the need for realistic, dynamic data to reflect the many state transitions that impact test data during an application workflo...

In this edition of the GenRocket Advisor, we provide an update to acquaint you with some exciting new features that have been added to our Test Data Automation platform. New Graphics to Visually Show Parent-Child-Sibling Relationships As you may know, GenRocket holds the only US patent for generating Real-time Synthetic Test Data with referen...

This past year, our development team has been focused on two critically important themes: The enterprise scalability of our platform and streamlining the user experience with a powerful self-service capability. In this edition of the GenRocket Advisor, we describe a methodology for solving any test data challenge that leverages both of these greatl...

During the last several months, GenRocket has been systematically enhancing the components of G-Self-Service to bring enterprise scalability to Test Data Automation self-service. G-Self-Service provides any tester with the ability to design and generate the data needed for automated Agile test cases, on-demand, and as a unified process. This allows...

The need for workflow testing touches every industry segment and requires test data that accurately simulates the dynamic nature of information processed according to business rules. Here are just a few examples of complex workflows: Credit card transactions Loan origination services Electronic funds transfers Insurance claim process...

Did you know we are continuously adding new capabilities to the GenRocket platform? It’s true. As customers request new features, we are constantly evaluating, prioritizing and integrating them into our Test Data Automation solution. Here are three platform capabilities we’ve enhanced during the last three months. Some of these may be famili...

Maximizing coverage is the goal of every QA organization. It’s the key to avoiding defect leakage and ensuring high quality software is released to production. A strong focus on test case design at each level of Agile testing is essential to validating code and finding defects. There is also growing awareness for the role synthetic test data c...

The use of synthetic data for software testing to add to, or replace, production data is not a new concept. However, the misperception about synthetic data being limited to randomized, non-realistic data is gradually disappearing. Many QA professionals are now integrating real-time synthetic test data generation with test automation tools to improv...

When introducing GenRocket to a prospective customer, they are usually impressed by the sophistication and flexibility of the platform. However, we often hear this question: How does GenRocket fit into my existing QA environment and its processes? This is understandable because there is so much power in the platform, it can be difficult to know...

We are pleased to announce a new Trial Kit to address the increased level of inquiries for GenRocket’s Test Data Automation solution. This kit allows a completely self-guided GenRocket evaluation for opportunities that don’t qualify for an enterprise sales process. As you know, our standard sales process calls for high-touch involvement in e...

In this week’s newsletter, we focus on a core component of GenRocket’s Test Data Automation solution. Data Generators are the workhorses of the GenRocket component based architecture for generating real-time synthetic test data. They can turn the toughest test data challenge into controlled and comprehensive test data that maximizes test covera...

Security is an essential goal for every quality assurance organization as they strive to: Ensure compliance with data privacy laws Avoid a data breach of sensitive information Protect internal systems from unauthorized access GenRocket is the perfect choice for meeting security objectives; Its ability to generate synthetic data a...

One of the most flexible aspects of GenRocket’s component architecture is the ability to render test data in any output format. That allows QA teams to design test data for any database environment, file structure or data interchange standard by simply selecting the required Data Receiver for use with any Test Data Scenario. Ge...

This week we present part 2 in a series of blog articles titled Moving from Test Automation to Intelligent Automation. This installment is devoted to the topic of data modeling and referential integrity. It’s an important subject because maintaining the structure and validity of synthetic test data is crucial for the accurate representation of...

Test Data Management Evolves into Test Data Automation Digital Transformation (DX) is a trillion-dollar industry representing the largest share of enterprise IT investments. Unfortunately, most digital initiatives fail to achieve their goals due to issues with software and data quality. DX quality is essential for accurate business intellig...

What’s the most pivotal part of every sales campaign? What element of the decision-making process can make or break any deal? What customer interaction can produce that “aha moment” where a potential buyer truly “gets it” and becomes your best advocate? The answer to all 3 questions is the perfect product solutions demo. The ...

Big Data has placed digital information at the center of how organizations make business decisions and continuously improve the customer experience. Massive volumes of structured and unstructured data are collected in data lakes and combined with application data to update centralized data warehouses through an Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) proces...

Test automation succeeds because it leverages technology to perform repetitive testing procedures at high speed and without human intervention. Human intelligence is needed to design the test, but once configured, they can be run at high speed and on a predefined schedule for as long, or as often, as required. Test data provisioning must benefit...

The GenRocket Ecosystem is the end-to-end operating environment for supporting all of the functions of the GenRocket Test Data Automation platform. It’s a secure, scalable and adaptable framework that is based on a modular, component-based architecture. The GenRocket Ecosystem includes two major system elements: GenRocket Cloud: A secure web-...

Integration testing is a methodology for testing the behavior and data interchange between multiple connected applications. It’s a complex and critical component of an overall application test plan for detecting integration issues and ensuring the accurate flow of information between systems. Integration testing presents a particular challeng...

During this past week, we substantially increased the size of our GenRocket partner mailing list. If this is your first exposure to The GenRocket Advisor, welcome! We rely on this newsletter as an important medium for sharing information about our Test Data Automation technology, its best practices and customer solutions. Don’t worry, if you ...

We hope this email finds you and your family in good health. During this uncertain time, we are taking every precaution to operate safely and as close to normal as possible. We continue to be up and running, supporting our customers and developing new capabilities for our Test Data Automation platform. We have always been a mostly virtual co...

In this week’s edition of Test Data Topics we cover a foundational principle for understanding and implementing the full power of GenRocket - Data Quality. Why is this concept so critically important? To dispel a common misconception in the marketplace that synthetic test data is simply random data. With GenRocket, nothing could be further from t...

We are starting up a new series of videos as a convenient way to share topics of interest with our partners. Test Data Topics is a weekly conversation between 3 GenRocket executives: The CEO, Garth Rose, our CTO Hycel Taylor and our CMO, Dave Zwicker. Test Data Topics is a brief discussion of the essential talking points related to an interesti...

Large banks are using data lakes to turn big data into actionable business intelligence to drive profitable business outcomes. Electronic data is growing at a phenomenal rate due to the rise in online banking and digital transformation of the customer experience. ...

In this week’s GenRocket Advisor, we showcase a recent credit card processing and account management Proof of Concept (POC) that was successfully completed for a major financial services company. The POC is a critical part of the customer acquisition process. It’s where we roll up our sleeves and work with our channel partners to help their ...

GenRocket’s Test Data Automation delivers value to any type of software testing, whether its manual, automated or a combination. That’s because GenRocket allows testers to deliver the exact data they need at the moment their test case needs it, making testing easier and faster while having full control over data quality. As software developm...

In this week’s GenRocket Advisor, we focus on the GenRocket Multi-User Server, or GMUS. This powerful feature provides a centralized environment that allows multiple testers to share the GenRocket platform as a streamlined self-service solution. Once setup and configured, GMUS relieves testers from having to learn and operate the GenRocket user i...

Maximizing code or test coverage is a universal goal shared by most quality assurance organizations. Whether measured as a quantitative metric or tracked as a more intuitive assessment, coverage represents the concept of fully testing an application under real-world conditions to find as many defects as possible prior to its release to production. ...

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...