TestData

• Functional testing: Extracting a subset of production data to act as input values for data-driven testing or provide the appropriate level of test databases means testers spend less time on operational activities and more time on actual testing.
• Performance testing: Stability, load, benchmark, and other types of sustained tests require data for hundreds or even thousands of records to execute performance tests over several hours. Automated test data management makes the test data readily available.
• Service virtualization: Virtualized components require realistic test data to simulate the behavior of the live service or software they are emulating. Leveraging a test data management strategy to subset production data while masking sensitive information meets these requirements.

Essential steps: Streamlined test data management