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Rich Interactive Test database (RITdb) is a proposed test data standard aimed at reducing the burden for test engineers and test operations by providing a standard approach to data collection using a ...

You are creating a database from scratch for an application This application will have multiple siloed environments (PROD, TST, INT, DEV) Data from PROD will nightly be moved to the other environments ...

Are you grappling with managing your test data in an automation framework? Here’s a fact: effective Test Data Management (TDM) can significantly improve your software testing process. This ...

Test data manage­ment (TDM) refers to the process of creating, main­taining, and using test data to validate the functionality of an application. TDM is a critical aspect of the testing process, as it ...

Within IT, testing has matured as an industry. Many tools exist, and many IT shops have testing groups. But, often those testing groups are unable to assist on data-related projects. The heart of the ...

Demand for more and better data for test is driving a major standards effort, paving the way for one of most significant changes in data formats in years. There is good reason for this shift. Data ...

Test automation and DevOps play a major role in today's quality assurance landscape. As we know, software development is evolving at a rapid pace. This requires finding robust ways to invest in ...

A tool opens up that you can use for describing database connections and testing them. The UDL (Data Link Properties) form that opens up has four tabs — Provider, Connection, Advanced, and All. Since ...

Many developers are tasked with writing unit tests as test-first design and development becomes commonplace, even on teams that aren't strictly practicing Agile methodologies. Test-driven development ...