Test data “provisioning” is lagging far behind the sophistication of today’s systems. Development has shifted to containerisation and microservices, rapidly ripping out and replacing reusable components. Testers must also rapidly rip-and-replace versioned components in their environments, while retaining complex data relationships between shifting technologies. The deployed data must furthermore be diverse, compliant and compact, fulfilling all positive and negative scenarios in the shortest test runs possible.
Sound like an impossible requirement? While it is, if you rely on making costly physical copies of low-variety production data. “Test data management” instead needs to embrace the world of containers and APIs, along with the pipelines that enable developers to deliver so rapidly. We need a new approach to testing massively complex systems in short sprints.
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Huw Price is a test data management veteran and a serial entrepreneur, now founder of his fifth software start-up. Huw’s 30 years of experience in software delivery has brought collaboration with a wide-range of organisations, large and small. He has crafted strategies and innovative technologies for test data success, on projects ranging from large-scale migrations from mainframe to open systems, to building best-of-breed test automation frameworks for microservices.
Paul Stanton is the Co-Founder of WinDocks, which brought Docker Containers to Windows. Adding value over Microsoft's implementation with broader support of the Windows OS, with SQL Server containers, and with database cloning and data virtualization. Driving product strategy, go-to-market, sales, partnering, and Alliances. Pauls mission is to help you update SQL Server operations in a matter of hours, to achieve your DevOps and business agility goals, in a cost-effective solution that costs you less one month from now than today.
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