The Significant Role Of Test Data Management In DevOps Lifecycle

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The Significant Role Of Test Data Management In
DevOps Lifecycle
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• We can say many times the developers joy only
  last till the staging, why such? Because the code
  changes cause sporadic problems in the production
  stage.
• The developer may feel incompetent in designing a
  dynamic and robust code, but, this is the case
  when you do not have good test data to do the
  quality check.
• This scenario is when the DataOps and efficient
  Test data management comes into play. Using this
  approach, all the sections of business starting
  from development, operations, and the quality
  assurance team come together and work
  collaboratively.
• The collaboration ensures that an enhanced
  software/application fully functional is
  delivered to the customers. So, you may ask, how
  does DevOps benefit, what are the capabilities of
  it? Keep reading to know more...

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• It develops and tests against a production-like
  system
• Test and Dev stages in software delivery differ a
  lot. And hence, with DevOps, you set up a system
  that is similar to the production data and can
  support Test Data Management for continuous
  testing.
• This way, you can validate the systems, check the
  functionality, and deploy efficient software.
• Iterative and continuous deployment with the
  reliable process
• It follows iterative development practices in the
  repeated order starting from developing--test--dep
  loy--validate--adjust. Repetitively following
  this increases software capabilities.

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• Validating operational quality characteristics
• Passing through the various stages of the
  development lifecycle, the respective team should
  know the performance and delivery metrics as per
  the design.
• Feedback loop amplification
• All the teams involved with the software need to
  get continuous feedback to improve at the stages.
  Doing this, the delivery process and software
  capabilities increases. A consumable form of
  metrics should be delivered to the stakeholders.

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The next segment of this blog focuses
on the capabilities and benefits of Test Data
Management in the DevOps.
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• It discovers dynamic test data
• Finding test data covering the test cases is a
  critical job to do. Test Environment management
  tool and operations help the organization is
  finding the correct test data for the cases where
  functionality testing is important.
• Automates right-sized test data creation
• Manual cloning and extracting the data to support
  the test cases is no more the scenario of test
  data extraction. The test data generation process
  needs to be agile and continuously integrate the
  databases for extracting test data.

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• Masks the sensitive data
• The manual processes of extracting the test data
  are not agile, and above that, you also have to
  protect the data privacy.
• This procedure helps in the production of the
  right set of data, checks for data across
  non-compliance environments, and protects the
  data security breaches. No sensitive data should
  be compromised while testing.
• Analyzing the test data results
• Test data helps in checking the functionality of
  the software application. But it also helps in
  analyzing test data results by checking the
  pre-test data against post-test data and know if
  the test data itself passed or failed during the
  DevSecOps. Doing this, you can quickly identify
  the defects and resolve them to improve delivery.
  

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