Why Does Your Organisation Need Test Data Management?

The rapidly changing software development field makes it challenging for organisations and businesses to grow and sustain. In this incredibly competitive IT landscape, having an efficient testing strategy in place is crucial. A robust and effective testing strategy encompasses various elements, one of which remains test data management (TDM). What Is Test Data Management? Test data management involves non-production data (test data)development that reliably resembles a firm’s authentic data. This enables automated systems, applications developers and testers to execute rigorous and valid software tests. TDM’s role is also to guarantee that the developed data is of the highest quality possible. Having flawed test data is similar or even worse than no data at all because it will deliver unreliable, erroneous results. The TDM process also needs to ensure test data availability. It’s no use to develop realistic, high-quality data but unable to retrieve and utilise them w...