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Test Data Management (TDM)

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"Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper" - Clifford Stoll Test data management is an important task in the testing life cycle. An enormous generated data needs to be managed and some of the common activities around it are identification, aging, masking and archiving. In this blog, below questions are discussed in detail for more clarity – What is Test Data Management? Why do we need TDM? What are some of the indicators that your project needs TDM? What are some of the major activities of TDM? Test Data Management Challenges? Test Data Management strategy? What are some pros and cons of cloning production databases? What are some challenges of using Production Data in Test Environment (Production Cloning)? What are some pros and cons of generating synthetic data? What are some pros and cons of S

Testing the Internet of Things

“The Internet of things, will augment your brain” – Eric Schmidt Why IoT is such a hot topic today? Before we delve into details of testing of Internet of Things (IoT), it will be good to see why IoT is such a hot topic today. Gartner estimates that IoT product and service suppliers will generate incremental revenue exceeding $300 billion in 2020. It will not only impact the business, but our lives as well. Some of the futuristic quotes on IoT from different source. In brief, a big money is involved and business will follow. Internet of Things Market Statistics – 2015 Some Bottom Lines on the Internet of Things (IoT) 6 Quotes that Predict the Future of the Internet of Things The ‘Internet of Things’ Quotes to Consider While the IoT is still taking shape, it’s already making incredible strides as a new frontier for the connected world in which people, devices, environments and virtual objects are all connected and capable of interaction but that brings new testing proble