Grid-Tools Wins SQC Conference Lions’ Den ‘Big Idea’ for Software Testing and Donates Win to Charity for Education in India
Grid-Tools, the leading software vendor in data creation, test data management and information lifecycle management, announce they will be donating their £500 winnings from SQC to the Indian charity The Sujnana Trust.
Long Hanborough, United Kingdom, November 12, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Grid-Tools Limited, a leading vendor of data creation, test data management and information lifecycle management software, is pleased to announce it will be donating £500 to The Sujnana Trust, an Indian charity which aims to enable economically and socially disadvantaged students in India to become educated, skilled and aware. Grid-Tools were honoured to win the £500 at the Software & Systems Quality Conference in London on September 30th, when their Managing Director, Huw Price, won a “big idea” competition. Grid-Tools partner organization, InvenTest, is highly involved with the charity. For more information, please visit: www.grid-tools.com or call 01865 988542.
Grid-Tools providing test data solutions in India
Huw Price, stated, “Grid-Tools is growing rapidly and where we are gaining the most attention is in the software testing world in Bangalore. We continue to spend a great deal of time in India and have secured a Platinum Sponsorship at the QSIT STeP-IN SUMMIT in January. This is one reason we decided to donate the money to an Indian charity. The other is because we strongly believe in the vision of the charity and what it is doing for the children in India. The Sujnana Trust provides disadvantaged children in India with necessities like clothes, books and pencils and aims to provide infrastructure and education.”
The Software & Systems Quality Conference in London took place on September 29th and 30th, where Grid-Tools were exhibitors. The organization hosted a successful ‘Lion’s Den’ event for the first year, where exhibitors were encouraged to compete against one another by providing new and innovative ideas in software testing. The winner was to win a £500 donation to the charity of their choice. Huw Price stressed the importance of the quality of test data and test data generation; focusing on achieving a good spread of data and maximising code coverage, all methodologies in which Grid-Tools specialise.
About The Sujnana Trust
The Sujnana Trust is a non-government development organization working on issues affecting the urban and rural poor in India, with a special focus on children’s education. The charity stresses that ‘Every child deserves a chance to go to school’ and Sujnana exists and works towards making that possible. In some areas of India, children are in danger of dropping out of school because their family cannot afford the mandatory school fees and book fees. Sujnana aims to give them the means to make schooling possible, proving the necessary infrastructure and study material. In Kannada, a local language in India, Sujnana means “Good Education”. For more information visit: www.sujnana.org
About Software & Systems Quality Conferences
The Software & Systems Quality Conferences have been bringing IT managers and specialists together annually since 1996.
In addition to the main Conference in Germany which regularly attracts up to 800 delegates, successful spin-off Conferences have been established in UK, Ireland, and Switzerland. With specialist presentations, experience reports, tutorials, and exhibitions the conferences provide an information platform and marketplace for the delegates.
Today, Software & Systems Quality Conferences is Europe’s number one for experts in Software Quality Management and Testing. For more information visit: www.sqs-conferences.com
About Grid-Tools Limited
Grid-Tools are specialists in test data creation, test data management and information lifecycle management. Their experienced personnel have been writing and developing solutions for large companies in both the private and public sectors for over 15 years.
The Grid-Tools Datamaker Suite includes a wide range of tools for test data management including such innovative products as Datamaker (a revolutionary tool that creates and publishes quality test data with the referential integrity of production environments for testing and development and places this data in a central repository), DataShrink (for subsetting and shrinking databases), Data Test Professional (for creating and managing the data feeding performance tools) and Data Archive (providing a different, more efficient approach to archiving).
Within a short span of time, Grid-Tools have picked up significant momentum and an impressive list of well known and respected customers and strategic partners world-wide. The Grid-Tools methodology consists of using the “data-centric” approach to testing whereby, the focus is to ensure the test data being used is of the right quality for successful testing.
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Grid-Tools providing test data solutions in India
Huw Price, stated, “Grid-Tools is growing rapidly and where we are gaining the most attention is in the software testing world in Bangalore. We continue to spend a great deal of time in India and have secured a Platinum Sponsorship at the QSIT STeP-IN SUMMIT in January. This is one reason we decided to donate the money to an Indian charity. The other is because we strongly believe in the vision of the charity and what it is doing for the children in India. The Sujnana Trust provides disadvantaged children in India with necessities like clothes, books and pencils and aims to provide infrastructure and education.”
The Software & Systems Quality Conference in London took place on September 29th and 30th, where Grid-Tools were exhibitors. The organization hosted a successful ‘Lion’s Den’ event for the first year, where exhibitors were encouraged to compete against one another by providing new and innovative ideas in software testing. The winner was to win a £500 donation to the charity of their choice. Huw Price stressed the importance of the quality of test data and test data generation; focusing on achieving a good spread of data and maximising code coverage, all methodologies in which Grid-Tools specialise.
About The Sujnana Trust
The Sujnana Trust is a non-government development organization working on issues affecting the urban and rural poor in India, with a special focus on children’s education. The charity stresses that ‘Every child deserves a chance to go to school’ and Sujnana exists and works towards making that possible. In some areas of India, children are in danger of dropping out of school because their family cannot afford the mandatory school fees and book fees. Sujnana aims to give them the means to make schooling possible, proving the necessary infrastructure and study material. In Kannada, a local language in India, Sujnana means “Good Education”. For more information visit: www.sujnana.org
About Software & Systems Quality Conferences
The Software & Systems Quality Conferences have been bringing IT managers and specialists together annually since 1996.
In addition to the main Conference in Germany which regularly attracts up to 800 delegates, successful spin-off Conferences have been established in UK, Ireland, and Switzerland. With specialist presentations, experience reports, tutorials, and exhibitions the conferences provide an information platform and marketplace for the delegates.
Today, Software & Systems Quality Conferences is Europe’s number one for experts in Software Quality Management and Testing. For more information visit: www.sqs-conferences.com
About Grid-Tools Limited
Grid-Tools are specialists in test data creation, test data management and information lifecycle management. Their experienced personnel have been writing and developing solutions for large companies in both the private and public sectors for over 15 years.
The Grid-Tools Datamaker Suite includes a wide range of tools for test data management including such innovative products as Datamaker (a revolutionary tool that creates and publishes quality test data with the referential integrity of production environments for testing and development and places this data in a central repository), DataShrink (for subsetting and shrinking databases), Data Test Professional (for creating and managing the data feeding performance tools) and Data Archive (providing a different, more efficient approach to archiving).
Within a short span of time, Grid-Tools have picked up significant momentum and an impressive list of well known and respected customers and strategic partners world-wide. The Grid-Tools methodology consists of using the “data-centric” approach to testing whereby, the focus is to ensure the test data being used is of the right quality for successful testing.
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www.grid-tools.com
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