How Testers Travel TIME for Test Data Management Solutions
SANTA CLARA, CA. Monday, June 29, 2021 at 12:00 PM EDT
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Test Data Management solution is a popular solution to manage your test data. A common task is to create test data based on your production data regularly, and in many cases, the test data needs to be "cleaned" or "masked" for security reasons so that sensitive information, such as social security numbers, name, address, etc. are transformed with different data and the original data is not visible to testers or anyone who has access to the test systems. Test data management solution could automate such test data generation processing, and even maintenance the masking rules across multiple data sources so that the same data field in different data sources would be translated the same.
In addition, Test Data Management solutions also typically support the concept of the virtual data base, with compression and delta technology. As a result, only a fraction of storage is required to hold a virtual database and support self-serve capability, where testers can start their own copy of a virtual database without needing to wait for the infrastructure team to create, restart, or shutdown the database.
Many Test Data Management solutions also support the concept of versioning, snapshots, or bookmarks. Virtual databases can save multiples of the copy of data based on a snapshot of a particular date/time with a fraction of the storage requirement, the only difference between the previous versions of data need to be stored. For example, testers can save an end of January, end of February, and end of March snapshots and be able to restore any of those snapshots with speed and storage savings in a self-serve faction to test different test cases. This ability to time travel DATA speedily and that’s self-serve is very powerful and productive for testers.
This is half of the story. Testers also need to be able to time travel TIME. For example, the data could be of end of March for quarter-end process testing. However, if today is in April; then the quarterly testing would not occur as it is not yet quarter-end. With Time Machine’s software virtual clock, tests can instantly set a virtual clock to the end of March to test quarter-end processing with quarter-end data. This capability is self-serve, testers do not need to wait for applications/databases/system administrators to restart or shutdown databases and applications, or change the system clock. As another example, testers could also set another virtual clock to two years from now after quarter-end testing to test policy expiration logic with ease.
With Time Machine and Test Data Management solution; testers and developers are enabled to time travel both TIME and DATA; self-service with ease. Axis Technologies is our Time Machine reseller with strong expertise in Test Data Management and data masking with service and consulting capability. Above is a sales sheet to see what solutions Axis covers for your complete Agile and software development life cycle and implementation.
About Time Machine:
Software Virtual Clocks for Time Travel Testing. Simulate past and future dates effortlessly with Time Machine®, enabling comprehensive testing of your date- and time-sensitive applications. Ideal for validating critical business processes like quarter-end and year-end processing, billing cycles, regulatory compliance (including Year 2038), and policy lifecycles during integration, upgrades, virtualization, cloud migration, and containerization. Eliminate the risks and downtime associated with system clock resets in complex environments like Active Directory and Kerberos.
About Solution-Soft:
The Leader in Virtual Clock and Time Travel Testing Solutions
Since 1997, Solution-Soft has been at the forefront of virtual clock software and time travel testing solutions, empowering organizations in the ever-evolving digital world. Our flagship product, Time Machine, has revolutionized application testing, enabling thousands of companies, including 47 of the Fortune 100 US companies, to reduce costs and accelerate project delivery by an average of 3 – 10 times across traditional systems and containerized applications.
The Time Machine Product Suite extends these capabilities, optimizing cloud migration, test automation, Agile/DevOps, and containerization testing. Our latest innovation, Time Machine for Containers, supports standalone Docker containers and large-scale Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters (including a 16,000+ CPU core, 1,300+ namespace deployments).
Trusted by over 2,000 customers worldwide across diverse industries (including 3M, AMEX, BBC, Boeing, and more) and partnered with industry leaders like Accenture, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat, Solution-Soft, founded in 1993 and headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, provides cutting-edge solutions for your time-sensitive testing needs. Learn more at www.solution-soft.com or call +1.408.346.1400.
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