Tips for Business Intelligence Testing

by Nataliia Vasylyna | October 5, 2016 5:39 am

In order to improve business strategy and make thorough business decisions, each subject of the market tries to establish a well-organized business intelligence system.

The so-called business intelligence testing is intended for turning the huge amount of data into the clear and effective business information.

Business intelligence is a complex concept, including a variation of elements: analytics, application set, benchmarking, reporting, QA program, data warehousing and so on.

Every employee of software testing company[1] should realize that intelligence testing is a difficult multi-staged procedure, that should be executed in a certain order.

What Are the Main Steps of Business Intelligence Testing?

  1. Validate the source of the data – a tester should make assure that a source and the data sort coincide with each other.
  2. Validate conversion of the data – a tester checks whether the input information is turned into the business one.
  3. Validate the data location – in order to successfully fulfil this stage, a tester should conduct scalability testing and, also, performance testing[2] due to the continuously business data growing.
  4. Making reports – the final stage lies in the generation of the results which should be accurately grouped and sorted.

Keeping the aforesaid in mind, it should be mentioned that software testing[3] with regard to business intelligence may be performed in any category of business environment, for example, Healthcare, E-commerce, Education are the main clients of such test process because of their own internal peculiarities and ever-changing business realities.

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Endnotes:
  1. software testing company: https://qatestlab.com/company/about-us/
  2. performance testing: https://qatestlab.com/services/Withstand-the-Load/performance-testing/
  3. software testing: https://qatestlab.com/services/We-Are-Professionals-in/software-product-testing/

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