Building a Test Data Generation Service
In this workshop we walk through the concepts, building blocks and the implementation of a light-weight Test Data Generation service that addresses this automated testing niche.
Continuous Integration has redefined our testing practices. Testing has become more focused, efficient, and re-positioned further upstream in the development life-cycle. Unfortunately, our testing systems haven't evolved in lock-step - specifically the provisioning of realist test data.
It remains common practice to extract, cleanse and load production data into our non- production environments. This is a lengthy process with serious security concerns, and still doesn't satisfy all our data content requirements. What if there is a better way of providing realist test data? What if it could be generated on-demand as part of the Continuous Integration process - without the heavy databases and traditional batch jobs?
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