Hi
I love using BeyondCompare, esp in conjunction with RedGate's also simple yet excellent SQL Compare family.
Basically I run a bunch of automated processes which regression test our system. We top and tail that with BeyondCompare and SQL Data Compare. BC tells us if any of our output files (XML, PDFs, txt, data, csv) have changed between releases, SQL Data Compare does the same for the database.
Of course we expect some changes to happen as the software rolls on, but both are excellent tools at spotting the "inadvertant" changes that sometimes get introduced in the software devt cycle ;-)
We even generate flat files out of the Data Compare that tells us how a test has performed on release 1.0 say and then generate similar files on 1.2, with BeyondCompare highlighting the real differences.
We have also written some custom conversion programns to handle one or two proprietary flat file formats that we have - in VB.NET
Saves hours of leg work
I love using BeyondCompare, esp in conjunction with RedGate's also simple yet excellent SQL Compare family.
Basically I run a bunch of automated processes which regression test our system. We top and tail that with BeyondCompare and SQL Data Compare. BC tells us if any of our output files (XML, PDFs, txt, data, csv) have changed between releases, SQL Data Compare does the same for the database.
Of course we expect some changes to happen as the software rolls on, but both are excellent tools at spotting the "inadvertant" changes that sometimes get introduced in the software devt cycle ;-)
We even generate flat files out of the Data Compare that tells us how a test has performed on release 1.0 say and then generate similar files on 1.2, with BeyondCompare highlighting the real differences.
We have also written some custom conversion programns to handle one or two proprietary flat file formats that we have - in VB.NET
Saves hours of leg work
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