A comprehensive guide to Test Data Management

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A comprehensive
guide to Test Data Management

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• Testing is one of the main vital aspects of a
  software development life cycle to offer the
  finest and highly-functional software end product
  to the users.
• It also requires a proper and highly efficient
  testing strategy in place. There are many
  components of the testing strategy and test data
  management is one of them. In this post, we will
  discuss everything that you need to know about
  TDM.
• First of all, lets understand what test data
  management is.
• Test Data Management is the process of data
  management to fulfil all the needs of automated
  tests that don't require any human intervention.
  An ideal test data management strategy creates
  the required test data as per the needs of the
  tests. It also ensures that the test data is of
  good quality as poor data might not generate
  trustworthy results.
• Another aspect of TDM is to ensure the
  availability of the test data. What is the use of
  having realistic data when it is not available
  when we need it the most? So, there are three
  major roles of test data management providing
  test data that is of high-quality, realistic and
  available.

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• What is the importance of test data management?
• The need for quality data
• No matter how talented a performer is, a bad
  script can ruin the entire movie. Similarly, no
  matter how great your testing strategy is when
  you feed it with bad data, you are going to get
  bad results only.
• The test data quality is very vital to get
  effective results. All your efforts and money
  will go in vain if you don't have the quality
  test data.

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Data Regulations After the GDPR implementation,
the need to protect and use sensitive data of the
users has been the buzzword across the globe. You
have to ensure that you dont use any sensitive
data of users, but you also need to protect the
data from possible threats and cyber breaches.
Sensitive data exposure might lead to not just
financial casualties, but also it damages your
brand reputation. Every country has its own set
of data regulation policies that you need to
follow strictly. You need to develop a data
regulation policy that ensures data compliance.
You Want to Find Bugs as Early as Possible As
early as you identify bugs, there are better
chances of fixing them. A small bug that is found
at the later stage of the process might turn out
costly. The best test data management process
ensures that the automated testing process runs
smoothly and identifying all bugs in the initial
stage of the development process.
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What does the TDM process look like? There
are a total of 5 phases of the TDM
process Planning Here, a core planning must be
done by data requirements and appointing a test
data manager. Then the test data manager will
prepare all required documentation with the list
of tests. Also, at the planning stage, a proper
team must be formed. Analysis The second stage
is the analysis. During this stage, consolidation
and collection of data requirements are done.
Also, data backup access and storage policies
must be defined here.
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Design Now is the time to decide the strategy for
data preparation. Now, you need to identify data
sources and providers. This is the final stage
before the TDM strategy implementation.
Build Here, the test data management process is
finally implemented and all the plans are
executed. The data masking is done and data is
backed up too. Maintenance Maintenance is the
last and longest phase of all where you need to
ensure that everything runs smoothly and
maintained perfectly. From troubleshooting and
fixing problems to updating existing test data or
adding new data also comes in this maintenance
phase.
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• Company Name Enov8
• Contact Person Ashley Hosking
• Address Level 5, 14 Martin Place, Sydney, 2000,
  New South Wales,
• Australia
• Email enov8australia_at_gmail.com
• Phone(s) 61 2 8916 6391
• Fax [phone]
• Website - https//www.enov8.com

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