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Effective Test Data Management Strategies

Organizations need to identify test data requirements based on test cases to capture end-to-end business processes and associated data. This may involve data from a single application or multiple applications like a CRM, inventory, and financial system. Effective test data management includes extracting a subset of production data, masking sensitive data, automating comparisons of expected and actual results, and refreshing test data to maintain a consistent test environment.

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Effective Test Data Management Strategies

Organizations need to identify test data requirements based on test cases to capture end-to-end business processes and associated data. This may involve data from a single application or multiple applications like a CRM, inventory, and financial system. Effective test data management includes extracting a subset of production data, masking sensitive data, automating comparisons of expected and actual results, and refreshing test data to maintain a consistent test environment.

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Finding Test Data

rganizations should identify their test data requirements based on


the test cases, which means they must capture the end-to-end
business process and the associated data for testing. Capturing
the proper test data could involve a single application or multiple
applications. For example, a business may have a customer
relationship management (C!" system, an inventory
management application, and a #nancial application that are all
related and require test data. -
$xtracting subset of %roduction data
$xtracting a subset of data is designed to ensure realistic,
referentially intact test data from across a distributed data
landscape -
Mask or de-identify sensitive test data
!as&ing helps secure sensitive corporate, client, and employee
information and also helps ensure compliance with government
and industry regulations. Capabilities for de-identifying
con#dential data must provide a realistic loo& and feel, and
should consistently mas& complete business ob'ects such as
customer orders across test systems. -
Automate expected and actual result comparisons
(he ability to identify data anomalies and inconsistencies during
testing is essential in measuring the overall quality of the
application. (he most e)cient way to achieve this goal is by
employing an automated capability for comparing the baseline
test data against results from successive test runs*speed and
accuracy are essential. +utomating these comparisons helps save
time and identify problems that might otherwise go undetected. -
Refresh test data
,uring the testing process, test data often diverges from the
baseline, which can result in a less-than-optimal test
environment. efreshing test data helps improve testing
e)ciencies and streamline the testing process while maintaining
a consistent, manageable test environment. -
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accurately re/ect end-to-end business processes.
implementing test data management not only helped the
organization achieve signi#cant cost savings, -
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0n de#ning the test strategy, the test group must also ta&e
external constraints into account, such as available production
windows, the storage capacity needed for that production data,
and the time needed to populate the required test environments.
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