Struggling with Test Data Management Solutions? Know What’s Keeping You Behind

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• Struggling with Test Data Management Solutions?
  Know Whats Keeping You Behind

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• Both the test data management and the testing
  process followed makes a challenging situation
  for every tester in the organisation. We all seem
  to have accepted fate and are struggling with the
  test data to date. How is it fair in the age of
  technology and automation?
• Agile methodology has become a practice which
  naturally comes to every tester, making the
  approach to better test data inevitable. With the
  automation tools and the testing experts, it
  sounds like a task at the snap of a finger.
• So, why the testers are facing end-to-end testing
  issues..? To answer your questions and clear the
  concerns Enov8 brings in various approaches to
  test data handling.
• The classification of its pros and cons will draw
  the picture of the best TDM approach. By the end
  of the article, you might be able to choose or
  create an approach for the personal needs of your
  organisation.

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Each TDM Approach Makes A Difference

• The world of IT test environment management
  shelters plenty of test data management tools
  used by a variety of organisations. People are
  taught to implement all the approaches by trial
  and error method which clearly is the state of
  creating a blunder.
• Why? Just like you cant use a spoon and fork for
  all food items, on data management approach does
  not suffice the same needs. So all you are doing
  is wasting the resources of the organisation
  along with the time of testing teams.
• Now is the time to plunge into the classification
  of the test data approach, to prove everything we
  mentioned.

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A Clone Of The Previous Test Data

• The new software testing is conducted by
  extracting data resources from the previous
  software, which is cloning of test data. The
  testers have claimed that such an approach to the
  test data, sets apart the previous mistakes.

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• Ultimately, the new software is free from past
  errors. The method also proclaims to give
  efficient and easy access to test data.
• But how viable does this sound when that two
  software does not resemble with each other on any
  terms? The cloning process might have to step
  back in such a situation.
• And even if you have a resembling software, the
  process is still executed manually. Unless you
  have to a large number of resources, this method
  can be taken into account once in a long while.
• The story ends with the risk of data being
  exposed. So, its recommended only if you no
  vital data to lose or have high bars for data
  security.

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Mapping The Behaviour Of Users

• A stage where the organisation extracts the data
  by observing the behaviour of the software users.
  Under this method, the test drivers will get data
  only for the required software, claiming to be
  one of the simplest ways to map test cases.
• However, the major fallback begins with manual
  handling. No matter how skilled is a testing
  team, with all the pressure of work, humans are
  prone to make some major to minor errors.
• So if you are a large organisation with daily
  production of software can use the approach once
  or twice in a while.

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Easy Automation For The Complex Tests

• The automation tools are a great way to deal with
  the complex structure of different software. The
  tools are designed in a manner that both the
  above processes are handled effectively.

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• So whether you are required to clone the test
  data or extract the same by observing the
  behaviour, the automation tool does it all.
• Howbeit, no approach comes without a small needle
  of drawback. In automation, the only thing that
  takes away the key time is generating tests. The
  absence of a processed test can even fail the
  output of an automated tool.

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Squashing The Approaches Into One

• We hope that the explanation of each method was
  able to justify the virtue and drawback of each
  of them. No one method has ever proved to gain
  maximum benefit of end-to-end testing.
• The approach changes with the changing
  requirements. In the end, it is the calibre of
  the test team that yields maximum benefit from
  the test data management.

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• Company Name Enov8
• Contact Person Ashley Hosking
• Address Level 5, 14 Martin Place, Sydney, 2000,
  New South Wales, Australia.
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