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highly effective test data management
Leaky Bucket
strategies that offer significant
improvements in test data security, and
operability and effectiveness.
Personnel
One dilemma faced by many smaller
Do you sometimes feel as if your development budget
consultancies such as Roque is, ‘how
do you ensure that you have the best
is simply being poured into a leaky bucket?
staff available on demand for your
clients, but not run up huge wage bills
as they sit on stand-by?’ One typical
We know exactly how that feels and have adapted the way we operate to response has been to go out to the
help address some of the issues that our clients face when juggling the contract market and hope for the best
project finances. The three main areas we can help with are resources, as you supply untried testers to your
data and personnel. client. This is not an option for Roque.
Our response has been to supplement
Roque Test Resources
our own Roque Associates by teaming-
As any development project generates
up with Newkite.
a whole host of accompanying
Newkite Test Associates is an
documentation from, PID’s to SLA’s, it
exciting collective of independent test
makes sense to build on past work and
consultants and interim personnel,
not to reinvent the wheel. That’s why
centrally-supported and coordinated,
Roque Consulting has developed a full
which boasts over 100 active
set of test related document templates,
Associates and a network of thousands
which are available to our clients.
of experienced career testers of all
These documents, which include a
types. This gives us better access
Supplier Test Responsibilities Contract,
to proven testing skills amongst the
Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Report,
freelance community.
Test Resource Estimation Spreadsheet
Over recent years Newkite has
and others, have been produced in
successfully developed an innovative
template form and provide a fast route
and pro-active model for uniting highly-
for clients to develop a full suite of test
management and use of data is skilled and motivated individuals with
documentation.
becoming a real headache for many projects across the world. This approach
larger projects. Roque has formed a provides Roque with a knowledgeable,
Data Management
strategic relationship with Grid-Tools - hands-on resourcing partner, giving us
With more and more legislation and
the authors of DataMaker, a powerful much more flexibility and the agility to
press stories around use and protection
test data creation and database provide just the right resource at just
of personal information, the generation,
subsetting tool. This allows us to design the right time.
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Tony Simms appoint
News in Brief
ed to the Advisory Board of QAGuild
At Roque Consulting we are
Tony Simms, Principal Consultant at
always looking for new challenges
Roque Consulting, has been appointed
where we can make a difference and
to the Advisory Board of QAGuild
add value to our client’s projects. We
are very happy to meet with you and
(www.qaguild.com), a leading testing
discuss any needs you might have,
resource and community website.
just drop us a line.
Keshava Moorthy Chandrashekar of QAGuild said,
Email: consultants@roque.co.uk
“We are very pleased that Tony has agreed to serve
Tel: 0845 652 9800
on our Board. Tony has been actively contributing
Fax: 0845 652 9811
documents, training and tools to the site for a while
www.roque.co.uk
now. He is one of the leading weekly columnists.
Tony stated “I am delighted to be asked to serve in this
capacity. I am passionately committed to seeing the
www.pillorybarn.co.uk
testing community worldwide share their knowledge
and skills as we come of age as an industry”.
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