Automated Testing of Microsoft Power BI Reports
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WEBINAR:Automated Testing of Microsoft Power BI Reports Learn how QuerySurge automates the testing of Microsoft Power BI reports in minutes using our new Power BI Testing Wizard. Learn: - How to utilize the QuerySurge -Power BI wizard to automate data validation tests against Microsoft Power BI Reports - How to quickly generate SQL using the Power BI wizard’s built-in SQL generator - How to handle Power BI report slicer variations in your data validation tests - How to access report data that has Row Level security enabled using the Power BI Wizard The Goal Gain valuable insights into how QuerySurge’s Power BI testing wizard can benefit your organization, including: - Providing a dramatic reduction in test development time through built-in SQL generation - Reduced skillset needed for test creation - Expanded coverage of your Microsoft Power BI report testing efforts For more, visit www.QuerySurge.com
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Automated Testing of Microsoft Power BI Reports
- 1. a software division of a software division of Webinar: Automated Testing of Power BI Reports Chris Thompson Senior Solutions Architect Mike Calabrese Senior Solutions Architect Power BI Testing
- 2. •About QuerySurge •BI report testing challenges •QuerySurge’s BI Tester solution •Power BI Wizard demo a software division of QuerySurge™ a software division of Agenda
- 3. Enterprise Apps / ERP systems Data Warehouse Data Migration Data Mart ETL Data Warehouse ETL Source Data Mainframe Business Intelligence & Analytics C-level executives are using BI & Analytics to make critical business decisions with the assumption that the underlying data is fine ETL We know it is not Big Data Lake Typical data issue areas The Executive Office and Critical Data
- 4. QuerySurgeTM Uses Cases Data Warehousing Big Data initiatives DevOps/DataOps pipelines Data Migrations BI & Analytics efforts Enterprise Apps & ERP support Supported Business Initiatives
- 5. 200+ Customers in 30 Countries (sample list) Banking Insurance Consumer Pharma Financial Tech Healthcare
- 6. 200+ Customers in 30 Countries (sample list) Automotive Energy Gov’t & Pub. Services Higher Education Manufacturers Media & Telecom Professional Services
- 7. Where QuerySurge fits into your data strategy a software division of a software division of QuerySurge™ a software division of
- 8. QuerySurge connects to any 2 points at one time Compares every data set to find anomalies …and provides Data Validation Analytics How QuerySurgeTM Works Source Data Target Data • Databases • Data Warehouses • Flat Files & Excel • JSON files • Web Services • Mainframe files • Big Data Stores (Hadoop & NoSQL) • Data Warehouses • Business Intelligence reports Source Data Target Data
- 9. Data Warehouse ETL Data Mart ETL Source Data Big Data lake BI & Analytics Testing Point #1 Testing Point #2 Testing Point #3 Data Tester: Tests data movement based on Mapping Requirements Testing Point #4 Tester tests BI Reports ETL Developer: Codes data movement based on Mapping Requirements BI User extracts data for reports Data Process: Developer & Tester
- 10. Web-based… Supported OS... Connects through… …to 200+ JDBC compliant data sources Installs on... …the Cloud …a VM …a Bare Metal Server a software division of QuerySurge™ a software division of QuerySurgeTM Environment QuerySurge Controller QuerySurge Server DB Server (MySQL) App Server (Tomcat) QuerySurge Agents (Ships with 10 Agents)
- 11. Supported Technologies: 200+ data stores QuerySurge supports all the data stores below (and more) as either a source or target. Supported Technologies Databases Access Azure Analysis Services Azure Synapse Btrieve DB2 EnterpriseDB Exasol Greenplum Impala Informix JDBC-ODBC Bridge MariaDB MySQL Nonstop SQL Oracle PostgreSQL SAP Business One SAP HANA SAP Hybris C4C SQL Analysis Services SQL Server SingleStore Sybase Sybase IQ Teradata xBase Files & APIs Amazon S3 Avro Box CSV DigitalOcean Dropbox FTP Google Cloud Storage Google Drive HDFS IBM Cloud Object Storage JSON LDAP Microsoft Dataverse Microsoft OneDrive OData Parquet Power BI XMLA REST RSS SAS Data Sets SAS xpt SFTP Twilio Wasabi XML Accounting ADP Avalara AvaTax Blackbaud FE NXT Dynamics GP Dynamics NAV Exact Online FreshBooks Freshdesk MYOB AccountRight QuickBooks QuickBooks Online QuickBooks POS Reckon SAP Concur Sage 200 Sage 50 UK Sage Cloud Accounting Sage Intacct TSheets TaxJar Workday Xero Zoho Books eCommerce ADP Amazon Marketplace Authorize.Net BigCommerce Blackbaud FE NXT EDGAR Online Magento Open Exchange Rates PayPal Paylocity Quandl SAP Fieldglass ShipStation Shopify Square Stripe Wave Financial WooCommerce X-Cart Zuora eBay eBay Analytics Amazon Athena Amazon DynamoDB Apache Drill Apache Hadoop Avro Azure Data Catalog Azure Data Lake Storage Azure Table BigInsights BigQuery Cassandra Cloudant Cloudera CockroachDB Cosmos DB CouchDB Couchbase Databricks Dremio Elasticsearch Google Data Catalog Google Spanner GraphQL HBase HPCC Systems HarperDB Hive IBM Cloud SQL Query Kafka MarkLogic MongoDB Parquet Phoenix Power BI XMLA Presto Redis Redshift SAS Data Sets SAS xpt Snowflake Spark TigerGraph Vertica Big Data & NoSQL Marketing CRM Workday Marketing Act-On Adobe Analytics Bing Ads Facebook Facebook Ads Google Ad Manager Google Ads Google Analytics Google Campaign Manager HubSpot Instagram LinkedIn LinkedIn Ads Magento MailChimp Marketo Oracle Eloqua Oracle Sales Pinterest SAP BusinessObjects BI Salesforce Chatter,Einstein, Marketing,Pardot SendGrid Snapchat Ads Splunk SurveyMonkey Twitter Twitter Ads YouTube Analytics BI Reports Microsoft Power BI Tableau IBM Cognos Microstrategy Oracle OBIEE SAP Business Objects Collaboration AWS Management Active Directory Airtable Alfresco Asana Autify Azure DevOps Azure Management Basecamp Bugzilla Confluence DocuSign Email Evernote Excel Excel Online Excel Services Gmail Google Calendar Google Contacts Google Sheets HCL Domino Jira Jira Service Desk Kintone Microsoft Exchange Microsoft Planner Microsoft Project Microsoft Teams Office 365 OneNote QuickBase Raisers Edge NXT SAP BusinessObjects BI SAP SuccessFactors SharePoint Slack Smartsheet Trello WordPress Xero WorkflowMax Zendesk
- 12. QuerySurge™ a software division of a software division of QuerySurge™ a software division of BI Report Testing Challenges
- 13. BI Report Testing: the Challenge Most Common Use Cases 1) Compare visualization (and underlying numbers) on BI report to backend data store(s) 2) Compare one report to another report 3) Ensure reports have been updated correctly 4) Compare to trends & normal business operations i.e. normal sales by day a software division of QuerySurge™ a software division of It only takes 1 or 2 people saying “I don’t trust the data” to invalidate a report. That can tank a whole project. - CIO Magazine
- 14. The Most Common Data Validation Method a software division of QuerySurge™ a software division of Most Common Validation Methods • “Stare & Compare” • Standard functional automation tools (i.e. Selenium) Challenge of Testing BI Reports • BI testing is mostly a manual process • Increases the workload for testers making it prone to mistakes.
- 15. QuerySurge BI Tester Provides a successful approach to solving the problem of testing the data embedded in BI solutions a software division of a software division of QuerySurge™ a software division of
- 16. QuerySurge BI Tester a software division of QuerySurge supports BI Testing for the following Business Intelligence solutions: a software division of QuerySurge™ a software division of
- 17. QuerySurge Power BI Wizard a software division of QuerySurge™ a software division of Power BI Wizard • No code solution for testing data within Power BI visualizations • Quickly and easily create queries against Power BI reports • Ability to pass slicer settings to Power BI report - allowing for filter testing and validation
- 18. QuerySurge Power BI Wizard Microsoft Power BI report QuerySurge Design Time Run QuerySurge Runtime Dashboard Data Failures Found (red)
- 19. QuerySurge BI Tester a software division of QuerySurge™ a software division of
- 20. a software division of QuerySurge Demo a software division of QuerySurge™ a software division of