In my recent series of articles on testing I used the hash table to provide a means to write/update a table from within a DATA step without demanding changes to the DATA statement, etc. I’ve had some very kind feedback on the series, plus some reques…
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NOTE: Testing Macros – Parameters Revisited
As my planned series on testing drew to a close last week, I got an email from Quentin McMullen with some very kind words about the NOTE: blog, but also some very erudite comments about my choice of parameters for my testing macros. Rather than paraphr…
NOTE: Testing (Presenting the Results)
The preceding two articles in this series on testing presented a simple, generic macro for testing and recording test results. All that remains now is for us to tidy-up some loose ends.
Firstly, the macro assumes data set work.results already exists. …
NOTE: Advent Calendar 2011
Today is 1st December, and that can mean only one thing: time to turn to the traditional SAS Professionals advent calendar! There will be prizes every day throughout December, so make sure you visit http://www.sasprofessionals.net/ every day.
And if …
Big Data in the News
As a SAS programmer, the idea of Big Data is nothing new to me. Decades have passed since I first wrestled with the special challenges of making sense out of huge data sets. Some things have changed, of course. A million records doesn’t seem as remarkable now as it did 20 years ago, but the […]
NOTE: Testing (Collating the Results)
We began this series of posts on testing with an introduction to testing disciplines, and I followed that with a description of how we could quickly create some small macros that would allow us to automate some of our testing and present the …
NOTE: Testing (Collating the Results)
We began this series of posts on testing with an introduction to testing disciplines, and I followed that with a description of how we could quickly create some small macros that would allow us to automate some of our testing and present the …
NOTE: Testing is Like Visiting the Dentist?
In a comment in response to my recent Testing – Discipline article, Rick@SAS provided a link to an article he’d posted on the American Statistical Association community forum wherein he drew an analogy between testing and going to the dentist. I think …