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Andy Hickman

I am a Principal Consultant at Scott Logic. I have led software teams in several organisations as a Delivery Manager, CTO and Software Development Manager. My interest is in the approaches – whether they are Agile practices, technical skills, management styles or tools – that make software teams most effective.

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Data Engineering

Big Data and the Testing Challenge

This blog is about tools that help address the challenge of testing systems which handle large data volumes. We’ll see why creating a large, realistic and valid test data set is hard, how test data generators can help, and compare some of those available.

Andy Hickman · 2^nd Jul 2020 · 7 min read