The growth of technology and expansion of demands let the businesses to expect the support from software development industry to cope up with changing business environment and to be at head-to-head level with their growing and high stimulative (to dynamic business world) competitors. The fast moving world causes more frequent alterations on the business needs, due this reason software companies are forced to release new versions (either with added features or bug fixes) within short time period, which shortens the release life cycle of the software.
Testing the software product is vital part on releasing the software that satisfies the business requirements, as the testing phase of SDLC ensures that the developed software meets the initial requirements. Even the design and development phase usually rooms more time than allocated, which in turn reduces the time for testing, within limited time frame all the planned testing would not have been tested. To avoid any such unexpected delays, implementing automation to several areas of testing and practicing proper test data management and test environment management are definite advantage to meet the deadline along with implementing all the required testing & verifications.
When it comes to testing, test data is essential to boost the quality of the testing and to release a high quality product/software. The test data should be close enough to live data as possible then the only software developing team confirm that the software meets the business requirements and it should be efficient enough to figure out all the possible errors at the testing environment itself, which can avoid having negative reputation for the software in the market. The accuracy of test data helps to ensure all possible data related bugs are identified and fixed.
Effective and speedy test data gathering helps to release the product on time, that is, it helps to to release new products or new versions quickly. When collecting the test data it should be protected with high level of security, having unprotected data may cause severe issues against the software development company (specially with private data). It is must to mask the production data before using it for testing purposes. Having the best test data management in procedure would let the testing team to have highly protected test data in hand. There are software tools available to verify and validate the privatized data and such tools can pin-point the unprotected data in the reports which is very helpful to avoid any issues cause by having unprotected data.
Testing the software product is vital part on releasing the software that satisfies the business requirements, as the testing phase of SDLC ensures that the developed software meets the initial requirements. Even the design and development phase usually rooms more time than allocated, which in turn reduces the time for testing, within limited time frame all the planned testing would not have been tested. To avoid any such unexpected delays, implementing automation to several areas of testing and practicing proper test data management and test environment management are definite advantage to meet the deadline along with implementing all the required testing & verifications.
When it comes to testing, test data is essential to boost the quality of the testing and to release a high quality product/software. The test data should be close enough to live data as possible then the only software developing team confirm that the software meets the business requirements and it should be efficient enough to figure out all the possible errors at the testing environment itself, which can avoid having negative reputation for the software in the market. The accuracy of test data helps to ensure all possible data related bugs are identified and fixed.
Effective and speedy test data gathering helps to release the product on time, that is, it helps to to release new products or new versions quickly. When collecting the test data it should be protected with high level of security, having unprotected data may cause severe issues against the software development company (specially with private data). It is must to mask the production data before using it for testing purposes. Having the best test data management in procedure would let the testing team to have highly protected test data in hand. There are software tools available to verify and validate the privatized data and such tools can pin-point the unprotected data in the reports which is very helpful to avoid any issues cause by having unprotected data.