Test Data Management: Still a Problem Worth Solving
The latest QA industry research suggests that Test Data Management (TDM) has remained static at many organizations, in spite of all the advances in test automation and move towards DevOps.
In fact, the tools and techniques used to provision test data remain largely the same as when the Curiosity Software team first began in QA, some 30 years ago. 65% of organizations still use production data in testing. 36% mask it and 30% subset data before provisioning it to test environments. Meanwhile, just 18% synthesize data using automated techniques. [i]