Reports Testing

Businesses depend on the collection and organization of data to make strategic decisions and to review trends and having reports that accurately reflect business information is a critical to the process of sound decision making. Accurate operational data is a key competitive advantage to any reporting tool. Testing of extracts, transform and load (ETL) applications is foundational to ensuring the report quality. However, the practicality of 100% Data Warehouse testing is not always feasible. Having a report testing strategy that focuses on extraction and transformation and loading components ensures that all types of data behave as expected and that reports reflect dependable business information.

• Increase Application Quality – Testing earlier, smarter, and faster by leveraging RentTesters experienced Report testing resources throughout your development cycle.
• Accelerate Time-to-Market - Finding critical issues earlier and preventing delays that are caused by issues found late. Bugs detected and fixed early are less expensive and keep your project quality up and costs down.
• Minimize Testing Costs - Pay only for what you need with RentTesters On-Demand delivery model allowing you to tailor your testing solution to focus your budget dollars where they’re most needed.

Creating Solutions

RentTesters report validation experience can help you implement a strategy that is comprehensive and scalable for your project. Our outsourced testing model involves On-Demand testing resources and testing consulting services. We work with you to define what’s needed and when it’s needed to bring you a report testing approach that includes validation that reports meet user requirement and the underlining data warehouse is built to support them.

• Data Completeness - Comparing total counts between source and target, comparing unique values, utilizing data profiling tool to show range of value distributions of fields in the data set.
• Data Transformation – Validate Business Rules by setting the test data, use ETL automation to populate large data sets, validate the ETL-generated fields such as surrogate keys, validate parent to child relationship and referential integrity
• Data Quality - Validate Boundary Conditions, Validate Lookup Fields, Negative conditions.
• Data Aggregation – Run the reports to ensure correct data aggregations and selections on the front end.
• Data Recovery - Generate the failure scenarios for records to verify that after the failure record has been recovered and we can observe the expected behavior on the front end
• Scalability - Generate performance benchmarks and compare jobs performance based on different loads. Help DB team to tune and optimize the performance accordingly.

Check out Reports Testing case studies to see what we’ve done for other clients!

Providing Expertise

RentTesters consultants have expertise and experience testing reporting technologies such as Business Objects, Crystal, and Microstrategy, to name a few. Our consultants will analyze your testing requirements, prepare a test plan and can either prepare your team for test execution or perform it for you. We ensure that Syntax (parse) of all the objects, joins, and predefined conditions in the universe are verified validating that no loops or orphan tables exist and that there are no gaps within contexts.

How RentTesters Can Help You

Want to learn more about how RentTesters can help you to create and implement your organization’s Reporting test strategy? Contact Us to get detailed information about what’s included in our services. Request a quote from us today!

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