As digital transformation continues to evolve, test data management (TDM) plays a key role in ensuring data security, compliance, and efficiency. TDM 2.0 introduces significant improvements over TDM 1.0, building on its strengths while incorporating modern, cloud-native technologies. These advancements enhance…
Why is Referential Integrity Important in Test Data Management?
Finding the best test data management tools requires getting all the major features you need— but that doesn’t mean you can ignore the little ones, either. While maintaining referential integrity might not be the most exciting part of test data management,…
The ROI of Test Data Management Tool
As software teams increasingly take a “shift left” approach to software testing, the need to reduce testing cycle times and improve the rigor of tests is growing in lock-step. This creates a conundrum: Testing coverage and completeness is deeply dependent on…
Why Open-Source Tools Might Fall Short for Test Data Management
You may have heard it said that the best things in life are free—but when it comes to Test Data Management (TDM), free is not always the best choice. For businesses, finding the right balance of value, security, stability, and performance…
Seven Key Test Data Management Metrics to Understand and Track
If your organization performs software testing, then you probably use test data in some form. But is your process for producing, updating, and implementing that test data adding net value for the organization? Or is it a hidden roadblock to producing…
Four Best Practices for Test Data Management in the Banking Sector
While managing test data may not be as exciting as what financial institutions can do with analytics, poorly managed test data holds an existential risk. Imagine a rare bug that failed to be uncovered during testing—something that reported a balance of…
Why Do Test Data Management (TDM) Projects Fail?
Test data, and Test Data Management, remain a huge challenge for tech-driven companies around the globe. Having good test data is a boon to the organization: It helps support rigorous testing to ensure that software is stable and reliable, while also…
What is Data Provisioning in Test Data Management?
If your company has taken the time to master test data generation—including steps to ensure that your test data is free from personally identifiable information, is suitable for different tests, and is representative of your data as a whole—data provisioning might…
How to Create a Secure Test Data Management Strategy
Proper Test Data Management helps businesses create better products that perform more reliably on deployment. But creating test data, in the right amount and with the right kinds of relationships, can be a much-more-challenging process than one would think. Getting the…
Best Practices for Test Data Management in Agile
Agile is a growing part of nearly every business’ software development process. Agile can better align teams with the most pressing customer issues, speed up development, and cut costs. However, like just-in-time manufacturing, Agile’s unique approach to development means that a…