Is Test Data Exposing You To Costly Bugs?
Your software is only as good as the data used to test and develop it. Rigorous testing and rapid development requires a far wider variety of data combinations than exist in narrow production data, or which could ever be made manually during short sprints.
Does your non-production data contain all the permutations needed to deliver quality software within rapid release cycles?
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Invalid Combinations
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Data that Integrates Across Systems
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Positive Scenarios Found in Production
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Transaction and Temporal Data
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Data of the Right Volumes
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Data for Parallel Testing and Development
Can you automate as quickly as EVERFI?
Test Data for Quality Software Delivery
Software defects cost exponentially more to fix the longer they go undetected. Test Data Automation creates all the data combinations needed to find bugs earlier and at less cost to fix, providing on demand data at every stage of the CI/CD lifecycle.
Understand The Data You Need
A comprehensive set of integrated tools enable you to understand your data model and identify what’s missing, allowing you to create all the permutations needed for rapid software development:
Data Coverage Analysis
Measure which scenarios your data can cover, identifying gaps to fill. Ensure that testers and developers continuously access all the data needed to deliver better software, faster.
Data Comparisons
Compare data across schemas, databases or snapshots, measuring the density of data in different environments and identifying gaps to fill in your non-production data.
Data Pattern Analysis
Use ML algorithms to find potential relationships in data, understanding which combinations should and should not exist. Then, apply the probability analysis to generate rich test data.
Data Validation
Identify unknown relationships in data, find invalid combinations, and test the “soft” relationships imposed on your data. Then, generate valid and invalid combinations that reflect every relationship.
Complete Test Data Throughout CI/CD
Once you’ve registered your data model and measured its coverage, you’re ready to create data that links consistently across your systems, and which fulfils every scenario needed to test and develop in-sprint.
Create All The Data You Need
Test Data Automation offers a range of techniques for creating complete and compliant test data. These techniques are all reusable on demand by testers, developers and automation frameworks during self-service data automation:
Quality Data is Consistent, Rightsized, and Available in Parallel
Providing quality data doesn’t just ensure the quality of your software; it also removes delivery bottlenecks and helps reduce compliance risks.
Your teams require parallel access to data that integrates across fast-changing systems. Otherwise, tests will fail due to broken data, and when a test or engineer edits data in a shared environment. Quality data must also be “rightsized”, from unit all the way to stress testing. Otherwise, test runs will be slow and costly, and might risk non-compliance with data minimisation requirements.
"Just In Time" Test Data
Test Data Automation provides an integrated toolset for ensuring that every tester, developer and automated test enjoys on-the-fly access to data that links consistently across integrated systems:
Data Virtualisation
Create copies of databases at a fraction of the time and cost associated with physical copies. Virtualisation spins up data copies in seconds, allowing testers, developers and frameworks to work undisturbed in parallel environments.
Resolvable Lists
Maintain lists of reusable data lookups, from lists of all past data requests, to data for targeted scenarios. Resolving lists can populate whole environments with rich data, while engineers, frameworks and models can perform on demand look ups.