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Moving From GDPR Compliance to Full-Blown “Test Data Automation”

I’ve written fairly frequently on the impact of the GDPR on testing, often responding to the news and research that continues to flow in. The below infographic summarises my thinking. It draws on news and research from 2019-2020 to show the need to address test data privacy issues today.*

The stats tell a pretty consistent story: the risk of a data breach continues to rise, as do the associated fines and brand damage. Meanwhile, the most effective way to mitigate this risk in testing is to limit the sharing of sensitive information to test environments.

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In Search of Quality: QA Must Be Engaged in Search Engine Development

If you’re reading this, you’re likely already well aware of the value of watertight QA practice and have a good understanding of what it entails. Yet, there is possibly a team delivering business-critical software at your organization that has thus far escaped the forensic focus of your testing. You need to talk to them, and this blog is a primer to help you do just that.

So, if you want to do one thing today to increase the measurable impact of QA at your organization, do this: find out which team is developing your organization’s search technologies and ask them how they’re testing them. There’s a fair chance that it’s a third-party search specialist, working with their own set of cutting-edge tools. In this case, verifying the quality of their testing practices becomes even more pertinent.