Dealing with
large amounts of numerical data every day is tiresome and demanding.
That is why using file comparison software is essential for quality
management personnel.
Comparison
for quality management specialists
Quality
managers, quality engineers and quality assurance analysts every day
deal with comparing large amounts of data, mostly numerical, during
failure testing, statistical control and other levels of quality
assurance. That’s where file comparison software comes really handy.
Selecting a comparison tool it’s necessary to consider the following
features: the ability to compare different file formats, reporting
function, simplicity in usage and others.
Quality
assurance specialists often need to compare in detail comprehensive
reports, control cards, Excel sheets and other types of files. Compare
Suite can compare any to any file format, converting them to plain
text.
Comparing
with Compare Suite
The
following features of Compare Suite may be useful for a quality
assurance analyst:
While
comparing files which have a common ancestor we recommend word by
word comparison. This way you’ll have modified words or numbers
highlighted and will be able to easily spot all the differences.
Report
generating is another useful function of Compare Suite that allows
to avoid looking through the whole file text. Depending on a
selected type (standard, full or advanced) a report may contain only
the changes, saving you the time and efforts
Folder
comparison allows to run quick comparison of folders of files,
saving lots of time on manual opening and closing. You can also have
a report for folder comparison. It’s priceless because all you
need is to select folders to be compared, run the comparison and
select the report type. You’ll get an .htm report which you can
print, save or e-mail to a co-worker.
Compare
Suite is able to compare .zip archives. It’s very useful when you
get zip files in e-mail – you don’t have to unpack them, which
again saves some time.
When
we speak about saving time, drag-and-dropping function may prove to
be a nice surprise. You
can drag-and-drop two files or folder's on icon to compare them.
It's handy when you have two version of one file on the desktop and
want to compare them. Just select both (holding Control key on
keyboard) and then drag-and-drop on Compare Suite icon on your
desktop.
Compare
Suite benefits
With
Compare Suite you save time and efforts
You
have easy-readable reports with which data can be quickly assessed
and the necessary steps can be taken.
Folder
comparison allows comparing data for multiple projects in one step.
Zip
archive comparison and drag-and-drop function save seconds, but when
you compare masses of data, those seconds make up hours in the end.
TextPipe
by DATAMYSTIC
- text transformation, conversion, cleansing and
extraction utilty.
Convert:
text files between DOS,
Unix, Amiga, Macintosh and fixed length record formats.
Data
mining: extract email addresses and URLs, encode/decode MIME, UU/XX and Hex email
attachments,
Process:
remove binary chars, ANSI escape sequences, white space
from start and end of lines, blank lines, HTML, backspaces. It can also perform case translation, user-defined translations, word wrap.