Test Data Management

Test Data Management: Software for Realistic Testing

Test data management software helps teams generate, mask, and manage test data for software testing and development. It allows creating realistic yet non-sensitive data to test applications.

What is Test Data Management?

Test data management (TDM) software is used to generate, mask, subset, and provision test data for software testing and development environments. Key capabilities of TDM tools include:

• Test data generation - Automatically create large volumes of realistic test data that adheres to referential integrity rules.
• Data masking - Scramble sensitive production data to create non-sensitive test data sets.
• Test data provisioning - Efficiently copy subsets of data from one environment to another on demand.
• Test data subsetting - Extract smaller representative data sets for focused testing.
• Compliance controls - Ensure test data meets regulatory compliance requirements.

Using TDM instead of manually creating test data saves significant time and effort while improving test coverage, quality, and compliance. Leading products include CA Data Content Discovery, Delphix Masking, Informatica Test Data Management, MENTIS Data Hub, and Original Software Test Data Studio.

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