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Big Data Testing

We get you past the bottlenecks!TM

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Big Data Testing

ECURITY BIG DATA AGILE

MOBILE CLOUD LEGACY

BIG DATA
TESTING
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Overview Data Diversity: Big data schemas must accommodate a variety of

Big data is a fast-growing marketplace that is driving demand for configurations.

ECURITY
specialized
BIG DATA
products.
AGILE
These products, in turn, require specialized
testing. Pyramid helps implement testing of massively scalable Data Security: Credit card data, personal ID, other secure information
solutions for big data infrastructures. Our QA designers bring sensitive assets must be secure at all times.
innovative new testing solutions to performance, security, and data
MOBILE
quality
CLOUD
that provide fast feedback within development iterations.
LEGACY
QA Infrastructure: Complex QA infrastructures must be carefully
tailored.
What is Big Data?
Big data is large-volume unstructured and semi-structured data that Pyramid Big Data Testing Solutions
cannot be handled by standard database management systems like Pyramid’s robust Big Data Testing Solutions (BTDS) are built to
DBMS, RDBMS, or ORDBMS. The components of big data can be mitigate rapidly evolving data integrity challenges and ensure robust
described as Volume, Variety and Velocity. quality assurance processes for big data implementations. To
address dynamic changes in big data ecosystems, Pyramid helps
Velocity: Data moves extremely fast through various sources such as organizations streamline their processes for data warehouse testing,
online systems, sensors, social media, web clickstream capture, and performance testing, and test data management.
other channels.

Variety: Data comes from many sources; structured and

PYRAMID BIG DATA
TESTING SOLUTIONS (BDTS)
semi-structured, as well as unstructured (emails, text
messages, documents, etc.). FUNCTIONAL TESTING NON-FUNCTIONAL TESTING

> Data Integration Testing > Performance Testing

Volume: Data size may (but not always) be in the
> Extract, Transform, Load > Load Test
terabytes to petabytes (and beyond).
and Quality Testing > Velocity Testing
> Data Repository Testing > Failover Testing
Challenges in Big Data testing > Analytic Layer Testing > Security Testing
Scale: Big data should be quickly and flexibly scalable. > Reports Validation > Testing Environment and
> Pre-Hadoop Validation Infrastructure Testing
> Map Reduce Validation
Performance: Big data must move at extremely high
> Source Verification OTHER SOLUTIONS
velocities, regardless of scale or database workloads.
> Data Warehouse Testing > Best Practices.
> Test Automation
Continuous Availability: Big data systems must be > Test Management
“on” at all times. > Compliance with Industry Standards.

TEST DATA TESTING TOOLS

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Big Data Testing

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Pyramid Big Data Testing Approach

MOBILE
Pyramid’s
CLOUD
collaborative
LEGACY
data testing solution finds bad data and provides a
holistic view of the “health” of a company’s data, ensuring that data extracted
from sources remains intact at the target by analyzing and quickly pinpointing
differences at every touch point.

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LOAD
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PERFORMANCE
MAP REDUCE
EXTRACT
OUTPUT PYRAMID’S
> Pre-Load

Validation
Process > Data Quality Testing > Reports Testing COLLABORATIVE
ECURITY BIG DATA AGILE > Validate Output > Cube Testing
> ETL

> Validate
Process Validation

> Performance
Input Data File
Testing
Data File
> Validate Aggregation
> Dashboard Testing
DATA TESTING
and Consolidation

MOBILE
> Security
CLOUD
> Validate

Requirement
Testing
Data
LEGACY
> Validate

> Validate
Data Integrity
Transformation SOLUTION FINDS
Rules
> Validate

Logic Nodes
Business > Validate Data Accuracy
BAD DATA AND
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Pyramid Advantages
• Big data warehouses are organized into smaller units that are easily
HOLISTIC VIEW OF
testable, improving test coverage and optimizing big data test sets.
• QA designers perform parallel testing in a distributed environment.
• Test data quality is strengthened by thorough planning, designing,
THE “HEALTH” OF A
and infrastructure setup process.
• Big data testing infrastructure requirements are assessed first, then
COMPANY’S DATA
the infrastructure is designed and implemented.
• QA designer skills include white box testing and data analysis.
• More data is tested faster, using automated testing processes across
various platforms.
• Best-in-class big data testing solutions and strategies deliver more
business value.
• Pyramid brings deep testing experience across platforms, including
Hadoop, MongoDB, Oracle, Teradata, IBM, Microsoft, HortonWorks,
and all of the major vendors, along with flat files and XML.

Pyramid Consulting Inc. - World Headquarters

11100 Atlantis Place, Alpharetta, GA 30022
Phone: 678.514.3500, Toll Free: 877.248.0024
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