TEST DATA MANAGEMENT · 10 CHAPTERS
TDM Guide
Test Data Management from absolute zero to hands-on tool work: the foundations and ETL first, then Informatica TDM, GenRocket and Delphix, with worked examples, labs, a worked project and a glossary.
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Foundations
Welcome: why TDM exists and the data basics you need
Start from zero: what test data is, why copying production is dangerous, how TDM fits into software testing, and the database and file basics every later chapter relies on.
Privacy, discovery, subsetting and masking: the concepts
The sensitive data and laws that shape every project, then three of the four core techniques explained in plain words before any tool appears: finding data, shrinking it, and hiding it safely.
Synthetic data, ETL from scratch, and how ETL meets TDM
The fourth technique, making test data from nothing, then extract-transform-load step by step, and how ETL and TDM overlap, differ and work together.
Informatica TDM
Informatica TDM (1): architecture, the tool tour, discovery and subsetting
How Informatica TDM is built, a guided tour of Test Data Manager, then discovering sensitive data and keys and carving out a data subset.
Informatica TDM (2): masking, generation, plans and workflows
Every masking technique and rule, mapplets and transformations, data generation, and how plans become workflows you monitor.
GenRocket
GenRocket (1): the building blocks
What GenRocket is, then its core pieces in order: domains, attributes, generators, receivers and scenarios.
GenRocket (2): data patterns and a hands-on build
Sequential, random, boundary, edge-case and null data, then a full lab generating 50 customer records.
Delphix
Delphix (1): connecting, keys and profiling
What the Delphix masking engine is, connecting to databases and a VDB, rule sets and primary keys, and profiling to find sensitive data.
Delphix (2): algorithms, file masking and hands-on labs
Masking algorithms and jobs, masking txt and dat files, and the Delphix lab series from connector to masked output.
Capstone and reference
Putting it together: real engagements, a worked project and the glossary
How a real TDM engagement is planned and signed off, a worked end-to-end project, and a glossary of every term used in the guide.