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Testing Practitioner Handbook

By : Renu Rajani
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Testing Practitioner Handbook

By: Renu Rajani

Overview of this book

The book is based on the author`s experience in leading and transforming large test engagements and architecting solutions for customer testing requirements/bids/problem areas. It targets the testing practitioner population and provides them with a single go-to place to find perspectives, practices, trends, tools, and solutions to test applications as they face the evolving digital world. This book is divided into five parts where each part explores different aspects of testing in the real world. The first module explains the various testing engagement models. You will then learn how to efficiently test code in different life cycles. The book discusses the different aspects of Quality Analysis consideration while testing social media, mobile, analytics, and the Cloud. In the last module, you will learn about futuristic technologies to test software. By the end of the book, you will understand the latest business and IT trends in digital transformation and learn the best practices to adopt for business assurance.
Table of Contents (56 chapters)
Testing Practitioner Handbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Chapter 15. Automated Test Data Management in the DevOps Environment

Automated Test Data Management in DevOps Environment Test Data Management is an important activity in Testing Life Cycle. The quality of testing is only as good as the quality of data with which it is tested. Test Data Management (TDM) life cycle steps include definition, discovery, subsetting, masking, validation, and reuse.

To carry out testing effectively, especially in DevOps engagements where the lead-time is of the utmost importance, it is required that the steps in the TDM process are automated.

In this chapter, we will discuss the following:

  • Key challenges of test data management in DevOps engagements

  • Automated TDM solution for DevOps engagements

  • Architecture of TDM solution integrated with DevOps tools

  • The benefits of Automated TDM

  • Best practices in automated TDM