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How to address top challenges in test data management!

At the Executive Testing Leadership Roadshow – mastering the test data challenge!

Date:March 3rd, 2015
Time:9.30 am – 12.15 pm
Location:Swissotel Le Plaza
Messeplatz 25
4005 Basel






Executive Testing Leadership Roadshow 2015

A joint event of Informatica and Cognizant
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015, Basel

Agenda TDM Roadshow - Basel

08:30 – 09:30 Registration, Coffee
09:30 – 10:15

The Test Data Management Challenge

Robert Bonomo, Swiss Country Head of Quality Engineering and Assurance Practice, Cognizant
10:15 – 11:00
"Zielbild Test" - Test data for DEVK

Thomas Prang, Head of Central Test Management & Project Portfolio Management, DEVK Versicherungen
11:00 – 11:15
Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:00
Efficient test data provisioning with a clear conscience

Wolfgang Epting, ILM Subject Matter Expert and Product Specialist, Informatica
12:00 – 13:00
Lunch
13:00 – 13:30
Q&A


With the constant growth in the number of applications and related databases, today's businesses are faced with challenges resulting in time consuming manual testing efforts, excessive costs and slipped delivery dates. By using the right test data management strategy, QA teams can get one step closer to reliable testing.

Adept experts from Informatica, DEVK Versicherungen and Informatica will share their insights, experience and plans for the future on Test Data Management - mastering the test data challenge!

Program:

The Test Data Management Challenge
Robert Bonomo, Swiss Country Head of Quality Engineering and Assurance Practice, Cognizant

This introduction will give an overview about the challenges with test data during the software development lifecycle. The availability, accuracy and referential integrity of test data have become a hot topic in many companies. Client data confidentiality has an impact on the way test data is made available. The size of the test data has an impact also on possible test scenarios and the ability to do load and performance testing. The pattern of the test data defines how to verify production incidents in the test environments. 

"Zielbild Test" - Test data for DEVK
Thomas Prang, Head of Central Test Management & Project Portfolio Management, DEVK Versicherungen

With software systems becoming increasingly complex and connected, a central test governance organization as well as system integration testing are becoming more and more important. At the DEVK insurance company the introduction of standard & packaged software increased the need for better integration tests. Adequate test data is key for integration testing. In this presentation the approach and experiences in consistent subsetting and masking of production data for test systems as implemented at DEVK will be demonstrated.
Efficient test data provisioning with a clear conscience
Wolfgang Epting, ILM Subject Matter Expert and Product Specialist, Informatica  

As big data gets bigger, IT organizations must develop scalable new strategies to mitigate the increased risk of losing control of it. This presentation will discuss how to safeguard data privacy and ensure regulatory compliance by defining and classifying sensitive data, identifying where sensitive data lives across applications and databases, creating data subsets and applying consistent data masking rules across systems. We will also discuss how to measure, monitor, and prove data security.