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What is Test Data Management ?

July 28, 2020 admin Mobile[6] Article

Test Data Management


TDM (Test Data Management) is a process of provisioning data that is required for software testing. The TDM solution should facilitate the requirements of both Automation test scripts which require data to conduct a data-driven test, as well as a manual test in order to meet the need to validate a business scenario in a test case.

One of the key objectives of the Test Data Management (TDM) solution is to create data that resembles the quality of data available on the production environment used by the end-users. This will elevate the tester’s ability to simulate all required business cases and validate the behavior of the application/system.

Having a TDM process in place within any organization guarantees the arrangement of test data which is of good quality and is reliable, this results in an effective test approach. Therefore, we may conclude that TDM has three key objectives, that is to provide high-quality, practical, and reliable test data.

TDM should ensure that client sensitive information (CSI) is being protected. This has to be done via a strategic scrubbing process, which will ensure the data processed retains the data integrity and the relational data structure when loaded onto a database.

Here are the most popular TDM Tools in the market.


    Delphix
    Informatica

About Delphix Test Data Management


Delphix profiling identifies sensitive information, such as names, email addresses, and credit card numbers across a range of data sources including relational databases and files. Delphix provides over 50 out-of-the-box profile sets covering 30 types of sensitive data, as well as the ability to define custom profiling expressions.

Delphix masking algorithms do not require programming and produce realistic values while preserving referential integrity within and across sources. Out-of-the-box algorithm frameworks can be quickly customized, or new algorithms can be easily defined if needed. Masked data is production-like in quality and remains fully functional for accurate development, testing, and analysis.

Data can be tokenized and reversed or irreversibly masked in accordance with internal standards and privacy regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA. Delphix provides the ability to define and broadly apply a consistent set of masking policies to mitigate privacy and security risks across non-production environments—where the vast majority of sensitive data copies reside.

Informatica Test Data Management


Informatica Test Data Management is a popular option to do Test Data Management; the tool includes the following key operations

    High performance and scalable subset and masking to secure production data in test environments
    Centralized administration and management
    Sensitive data discovery
    API for DevOps integration
    Data visualization
    Connectivity to relational, NoSQL, and mainframe databases
    Masking of relational and mainframe data
    Masking of NoSQL, Hadoop (HDFS), and Hive source data
    Integration with testing tools (Chef, HP ALM, Jenkins, Puppet, Selenium)
    Data validation
    Test Data Warehouse
    Test Data Generation

A command-line interface is available for generating data, data subset and masking, storing test data in Test Data Warehouse, resetting test data, and importing incremental test data changes

Conclusion


The above details provide an understanding of what is Test Data Management, its respective process and also the most popular test management tools in the market

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