RE: Test Development System Survey

["Jamie Coles" <jcoles@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys - sorry I came in a day late on this but was away yesterday!!

As most will know I represent Original Software and we are the
developers of Automated Tools.  (vendor announcement out of the way!)

I won't launch into a sales spiel but just address a couple of points if
I may:

1)      Rob - TestBench will automatically extract and protect small
subsets of data for your testing - and the data will be relevant to the
tests you wish to run.  By protecting the data it allows you to re-use
at later dates, or if regression testing roll back the entire test
database to a pre-set checkpoint.

2)      John's point about accessing production or live data can
sometime be in conflict with various Data Protection Laws.  By
scrambling or substituting values automatically will enable the
extracted subset to satisfy the tester requirements and the laws.

On the point about space for a testing environment being too large -
most of our customers have found that this can too be reduced.

If you wish to find out more please contact me off-list.  

Regards 

Jamie Coles 
Original Software
jcoles@xxxxxxxxxxxx

www.origsoft.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Condon, Mike
Sent: 17 July 2003 14:28
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: Test Development System Survey

We are currently using our AS400 production box for development as well
(the
test/production systems are separated by logins/environment variables).
How
many of you all also combine both on one machine, and has this caused
performance problems for you? Or do you use a test machine for
development
specifically because of this (or wish you had one)?
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