{"id":1288,"date":"2013-12-10T22:39:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T06:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Polarion-Blog\/Big-Data-Explodes-Is-Your-Software-Testing-Team-Ready\/ba-p\/380811"},"modified":"2026-03-26T05:36:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:36:59","slug":"big-data-explodes-is-your-software-testing-team-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/big-data-explodes-is-your-software-testing-team-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Data Explodes &#8211; Is Your Software Testing Team Ready?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A title=\"Free Whitepaper: Big Data Testing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.polarion.com\/resources\/download.php?dl=Big-Data-Testing-Whitepaper.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polarion.com\/resources\/img\/covers\/bdt.jpg\" width=\"183\" height=\"261\" \/><\/A>Recently I did a webinar on <STRONG>&#8220;Big Data Testing&#8221;<\/STRONG> explaining the concepts of Big Data and the deficiencies with current testing tools such as MS Excel for managing and analyzing large amounts of test data.There has been a tremendous amount ofhype surrounding both the challenges and the opportunities, however business requirements such as time constraints, regulatory demands and competitive pressures are <STRONG>forcing organizations to deal with the continual &#8220;datafication&#8221; ofthings.<\/STRONG> This does not exclude <STRONG>software testing<\/STRONG> and in fact adds more focus on our ability to handle and interpret test data in a timely fashion while providing meaningful results. Sound challenging? Well it is and many of us are not adequately prepared for this data onslaught. In this <STRONG>new whitepaper<\/STRONG> <A href=\"http:\/\/www.polarion.com\/resources\/download.php?dl=Big-Data-Testing-Whitepaper.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Big Data Testing&#8221;<\/A>&nbsp;I discuss the concepts behind big dataand why current QA processes and tools may not meet the needs and challenges of a digital world.<!--more More helpful resources--><br \/>\n<DIV id=\"ednote\" style=\"margin: 24px 0; border-top: 1px solid #eee; border-bottom: 1px solid #eee;\"><SPAN style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Editor&#8217;s Note:<\/SPAN><br \/>\n<A href=\"http:\/\/www.polarion.com\/products\/qa\/index.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Polarion&#8217;s test management and quality assurance solution<\/A> helps <A href=\"http:\/\/www.polarion.com\/company\/customers\/index.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">hundreds of top companies<\/A> manage their software testing and QA more efficiently, making testing an integral component of the overall development process. Our <A href=\"http:\/\/www.polarion.com\/resources\/index.php?cat=docs#whitepapers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">free whitepapers<\/A> and <A href=\"http:\/\/www.polarion.com\/company\/events\/index.php#recorded\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">on-demand webinars<\/A> can be valuable resources for testing managers and others with an interest in delivering quality.<br \/>\n<P style=\"text-align: center; font-weight: bold;\">YOU MIGHT ALSO BE INTERESTED IN:<br \/>\n<A href=\"http:\/\/www.polarion.com\/company\/events\/webinarondemand.php?title=Requirements+Management+and+Software+QA+-+How+to+Achieve+Better+Results\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4518\" alt=\"Free Polairon webinar: Requirements Management and Software QA - How to Achieve Better Results\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/siemensplm_blogs\/2013\/12\/requirements-and-qa-better-results-polarion.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"135\" \/><\/A><\/P><\/p>\n<p><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I did a webinar on &#8220;Big Data Testing&#8221; explaining the concepts of Big Data and the deficiencies with current testing tools such as MS Excel for managing and analyzing large amounts of test da&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63544,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63544"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions\/1289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}