quicker time-to-test using hp’s new test data management
DESCRIPTION
QA teams can spend upwards of 50% of their time preparing test data. Not only is data management tedious and time consuming, it’s error prone and a security risk when working with sensitive customer information like Social Security and account numbers. Also, linking data to tests is a lengthy manual effort and provides no visibility into requirements coverage.What if you could cut your data prep time in half?You can, with HP’s Test Data Management. Come see how HP TDM attacks this problem area by:- Automating the extraction of production data by utilizing reusable extraction rules- Editing and properly masking data- Automatically populating target environmentsThen see how HP TDM integrates with HP Quality Center and HP Performance Center to provide data-driven test execution and analysis, and industry-leading requirements coverage.TRANSCRIPT
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Quicker time-to-test using HP's new Test Data Management
Speaker: Durga SammetaSpeaker: Sr. Marketing Manager
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Needs and Challenges
NEEDS
—Access to meaningful
data to test
—Extract relevant subset
of data and refresh
iteratively
—Reduce security
compliance violations
—Reduce time to prepare
test data
CHALLENGES—Limited or no access to
production systems
—Extracting subset of data
from distributed databases is
time consuming
—Unauthorized users
accessing sensitive data puts
business at risk
—Unable to reuse data in
different testing environments
Realistic data is needed to test multiple scenarios. Where is the data? In production or backup systems.
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How much time does IT spend on maintenance vs. innovation?
Over 70%
Did you know?
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If you spend $100 on 1TB storage disk, how much does it cost to maintain it?
Over $700
Did you know?
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If an outsider data theft costs around over $50,000, how much does the insider attack costs the company?
Over $2.5 Million
Did you know?
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“With internal theft accounting for more than 70% of all data theft, test and development environments are often soft targets.”Forrester
“An insider attack against a large company causes an average of $2.7 million US in damages, where the average outside attack costs only $57,000 (Almost 50 times as costly).”Ernst & Young
Research
“Administrative costs for 1 TB of storage are five to seven times higher than the storage costs.” Dataquest/Gartner
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HP Test Data Management (TDM)
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Ensure ready availability of test data
Break the test data log jam with HP TDM
Connect Extract Load
ConsumeReportIterate
Design Manipulate Reset
TestAnalyze
Data-driven Testing Phase
Data Preparation Phase
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How can we accelerate testing with TDM?
Accelerate the testing process by almost 50%
With
TDM
Data Preparation Testing
Automated Data
PreparationTesting
Time Saved
Reduce preparation time
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HP TDM methodology
Source Target
Apply Rules
DATA MASKING
Extract and Upload
XML/CSV
Quality Center
QTP
LoadRunner
Service TestTDM
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Benefits for QA
HP Test Data Management
Streamlines data preparation phase prior to testing and provides a subset of realistic, de-identified, re-useable data for testing
Greater agility through accelerated application testing
Reduces the footprint and administrative cost of data storage for databases used in testing environments
Reduce costs for storage and data administration
Supports custom data-masking functions for any data type, enabling compliance with corporate data security policies
Maintain compliance and assure security for test data
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TDM Features
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Configure Production Databases
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Design Extraction Rules Using TDM Designer
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Define Masking Policies
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Scheduling Extraction Jobs
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Exporting Data Into Flat Files
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Data Driven Testing – Quality Center
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Reuse Test Data
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Q&A
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