In my previous posts, I explained about the basics of Test Data Creation, Challenges in Production Cloning, Data Subset and Data Masking. In this post we will focus on a slightly different note.
Invariably every problem has a symptom that we call smells in the modern Agile days. So this post is going to focus on the typical smells that indicate that your project needs Test Data Management (TDM).
- Testers waste more time preparing test data rather than testing the application
- This is probably the number one symptom or smell that warrants a TDM process and solution in place.
- Testers depend a lot of Business Analysts to provide the required test data
- This is also one of the top symptom when it comes to the need for TDM. There is a lot of dependency for test data from the Business Analysts.
