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Introducing TDM's Data Assistant Plus , by Uttam Anand

By Pamela Deason posted 29 days ago
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Revolutionizing TDM Synthetic Data Generation: Introducing Data Assistant Plus Authored by Uttam Anand, Customer Engagement Engineer at Broadcom Synthetic Data Generation Synthetic data is fabricated but realistic data created using rules, algorithms, or models to mimic the structure and characteristics of real-world data, without containing any actual sensitive or Personal information (PII Data). Synthetic data generation in Test Data Management (TDM) works by creating structured, rule-based test data that mimics the shape and logic of real production data, without containing any actual user or business information. The process begins ...
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(Quick) Tech Tip: Copy REST API Request From a Browser

By Sean-K-CA posted Oct 03, 2018
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Building the exact syntax for a REST API call to automate an operation can be difficult and/or time consuming. To make this easier and quicker, setup exactly want is needed within Portal and use the Browsers developer console to copy the JSON or even the full request as a cURL command. The Browser console can generally be accessed by pressing "F12" on your keyboard while logged into Portal. Head on over to the Network tab and you'll see all of the requests that have been made. Here's an example from Firefox: The output of "Copy POST Data" for this request looks like this: { "name": "Publish_inst2-travel_Basic Car Details", "description": ...
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What’s the secret to boosting DevOps productivity across your enterprise? Join us!

By Marvin.Mao posted Jan 18, 2018
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Please join us February 13, 2017 at 11am ET for an informative discussion on proven approaches that bring both the cloud experience and modern DevOps approaches to mainframe development. Hear from leading analyst Jason Bloomberg, Intellyx, and CA DevOps experts Serge Lucio and Jean-Louis Vignaud to learn how you can make your mainframe platform accessible to a new generation of developers, agile in speed of development and automated for faster time to market.
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CA Test Data Manager Release 4.4

By matwi05 posted Jan 03, 2018
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We are excited to announce the General Availability of CA Test Data Manager Release 4.4. Release 4.4 delivers a number of powerful new features, including Data Discovery and Profiling, which helps users to identify where Personally Identifiable Information (PII) exists in their data, allowing them to understand and minimise risk. This new version can be downloaded directly from the CA Support Site. Once logged in you will be able to select the latest version from Download Management. Look for CA Test Data Manager in the search box to speed up your discovery. You can find the release notes @ Release Notes - CA Test Data Manager - 4.4 - CA Technologies Documentation ...
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What’s New in Test Data Manager 4.2

By matwi05 posted Jul 21, 2017
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We are pleased to announce the General Availability of CA Test Data Manager 4.2. The new version can be downloaded from CA Support site . What’s New in CA TDM? New : Simplified Test Data Find & Reserve: TDM Portal Test Data Find and Reserve feature let you manage the full lifecycle of finding and reserving data from a simple UI. Test Data Engineers define Test Data Models, that testers, in turn, can then use to find the required data and reserve for their use. Reserved data can then be quickly released by the tester with a single click. Testers will be notified when test data is reserved via email as shown below: ...
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What’s New in Test Data Manager 4.1

By Arif_Muhammad posted Apr 05, 2017
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We are pleased to announce the General Availability of CA Test Data Manager 4.1. New version can be downloaded from CA Support site . What’s New in CA TDM? New – Test Data Find & Reserve APIs – Ability to find and reserve data that meets specific criteria is an important capability of CA TDM. Starting 4.1 release, this capability can be accessed via REST based APIs to enable easier integration with DevOps and Test Automation tool chains. New set of APIs not only allow you to consume Test Data Find and Reserve services but also allow you to programmatically manage the full lifecycle of those services. These APIs also expose ...
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Enabling Your Continuous Delivery Journey with End-to-End Integrations

By edwsc03 posted Dec 12, 2016
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Just three weeks ago, CA World 2016 was held in Las Vegas. When I think about the grandeur of that show, it is impressive to realize all that had to seamlessly come together in order to make the event a success. To deliver a fantastic “attendee” experience, CA, its partners, the sponsors, Mandalay Bay, the technology, the expo employees, and many other pieces of the puzzle had to work together to make the entire experience delightful. They had to dot all the i’s and cross all the t’s. And what we experienced was impressive. In a very similar manner, many of you must partner with the many “pieces” of your businesses counterparts in your software delivery ...
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Webcast Recap: What's New in Test Data Manager 3.6

By Melanie_Giuliani posted Jul 21, 2016
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Thank you to everyone who joined this webcast on July 21, 2016 which featured a presentation and demo on the new features in CA Test Data Manager 3.6. Below are all the relevant webcast materials: DevTest Community Webcast - What's New in Test Data Manager 3.6 July 2016 Webcast Replay - What's New in Test Data Manager 3.6 Direct Webex replay Q&A Transcript (attached) Webcast presentation (attached) Documentation featured on webcast (requires log-in): CA Test Data Manager - Home - CA Test Data Manager - 3.6 - CA Technologies Documentation
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Manheim Accelerates Systems Testing & Business Transformation with CA Test Data Manager !

By Haylee_Thikeo posted Jul 06, 2016
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Manheim Accelerates Systems Testing and Business Transformation with CA Test Data Manager ! Business Manheim is one of the world’s leading vehicle remarketing providers. It registers nearly seven million used vehicles annually and facilitates transactions representing almost $46 billion in value. Challenge To safeguard competitive advantage and enable business transformation, Manheim needs to be able to test and implement a variety of new systems. A manual approach to generating test data was time-consuming and restrictive. Solution CA Test Data Manager allows Manheim to automatically generate the massive volumes of test ...
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Putting the ‘T’ back into TDM

By Anon Anon posted Jul 04, 2016
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For many organizations, Test Data Management (TDM) starts and ends with copying production data, masking it, and moving it to test environments. In other words, TDM is viewed as a purely logistical matter, with the goal of moving subsets of production data as quickly as possible into testing. We’ve already written about the broader challenges of this view of TDM , but it also presents specific pain points for testers, and this narrow conception of TDM is one reason why testing can be frequently blamed for bottlenecks. Some of these testing-specific frustrations below are set out below. Data Provisioning is too slow Testers are usually dependent on ...
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Masking: it’s technically legal, but is it really ever that safe or simple in practice?

By Anon Anon posted May 23, 2016
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The EU General Data Protection (GDPR) is set to introduce sweeping reforms which will likely impact the sorts of data many organizations use in test environments. This includes the widespread use of masked production data for testing. Organizations outside the EU will still be accountable if they fall within the extended territorial scope of the GDPR, and so test teams worldwide might need to reconsider their use of masked production data by the enforcement date of May 25 th 2018. Otherwise, they might find themselves facing maximum fines of €20 million or 4% of annual global turnover. The need for consent: Can you use that data in testing? We’ve ...
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Webcast Recap: Improve Your Virtual Services Quality using Synthetic Data via CA Test Data Manager Integration

By Lenn Thompson posted May 20, 2016
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Thank you for attending last week's webcast "Improve Your Virtual Services Quality using Synthetic Data via CA Test Data Manager Integration\Whats new in 3.2 & 3.2.1" -- we hope that you found it valuable. Whether your missed the session, or attended and simply want to run through it again, this blog post will consolidate everything in one place for you: Community Event Invitation: CA Test Data Manager - Whats new in 3.2 & 3.2.1 Video Replay: Webcast Replay: Improve Your Virtual Services Quality using Synthetic Data via CA Test Data Manager Integration Webcast Presentation: (see attached) Thank you again for attending today's ...
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CA Test Data Manager 3.5 is GA

By Arif_Muhammad posted Apr 11, 2016
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Hi All, I am pleased to announce the availability of CA Test Data Manager 3.5. This release we are taking big leap towards delivering TDM on newer architecture. As part of 3.5 you will find a new architectural component called TDM Web portal. In future we will have all TDM Capabilities delivered on this micro services RESTful architecture. Here are the main highlights of this release Newly Architected Tester Self Service : Test Data On Demand Web Interface is moved off of the Silver Light to AnngularJS based UI. Back-end of TDoD UI is also revamped to enable us delivering more scalable job engine in future. Repository Installer : The repository ...
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On-Demand Environments and Data – Stay Ahead of the Competition

By Anon Anon posted Feb 24, 2016
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In “Age of the Customer”[1]), every organization is a software organization, whose market share is won or lost on a daily basis. If they cannot deliver value on the constantly changing customer needs which drive the market, there is always a queue of digital innovators keen to take their place. A lengthy SDLC is therefore no longer commercially viable, as markets are led by those who can deploy an idea from the business to operations within weeks if not days. A lack of full-sized environments As applications have grown increasingly complex, with countless moving parts, provisioning the required number of full-sized environments quickly has become a ...
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How can synthetic test data make your day better, your job easier and your project a success?

By Anon Anon posted Feb 23, 2016
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Generating synthetic test data is not only the surest way to be compliant with industry regulations, it is also the key ingredient for effective testing that produces quality software. No matter which stage of the software development lifecycle you work in we promise you that synthetic test data will help to make your day better, your job easier and your project a success. Let’s look at how synthetic test data can help each role in the software development lifecycle, starting with testers. Tester Too much manual effort spent creating and finding new data, causing costly delays It is said that 50% of a tester’s time can be spent doing ...
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Continuous Delivery: 5 Reasons why Test Data Management must extend beyond sampling production data

By Anon Anon posted Feb 19, 2016
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For most organizations, Test Data Management (TDM) starts and ends with copying, masking, and possibly subsetting a database. Such a logistical approach, however, only focuses on migrating data, and carries over many of the issues inherent to using production data itself. Masking and subsetting should by no means be abandoned. They are good practices, and in some instances are mandatory. Further, they go some of the way to ensuring compliance, and can reduce the infrastructure costs of storing data. But, there are several reasons why masking and subsetting alone cannot accommodate the successful implementation of a Continuous Delivery framework . 1. Quality ...
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The right test data- Speed up testing to make Continuous Delivery a reality

By Anon Anon posted Feb 19, 2016
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To keep up with new technology and customer demands the software development industry has no choice but to speed up. A combination of agile processes and continuous development practices has helped reduce project sprints from months to weeks, and even days. However, projects are still struggling to meet deadlines and budgets. So, what’s the hold up? Testing. Bottlenecks in testing caused by factors such as testers waiting for data, preparing test scripts and manual test case design, cause delays. In fact, testers can spend up to 50% of their time searching for the right data and 20% of the SDLC waiting for it. Manually creating test data is not a ...
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Software bugs in production? We’ve got it covered.

By Anon Anon posted Feb 19, 2016
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Software bugs in production cost money, and lots of it. Did you know that a software bug in a live environment costs up to 1000x more to fix than if it’s found in testing? So let’s think about how the bugs get in to our live systems and consider reasons why were they could have been missed in testing. Test teams are given production data to test with: Production offers volumes of data, so it’s the perfect place to get data for testing – right? Wrong. Production data doesn’t cover ‘outlier’ data conditions, causing poor coverage and inevitable software bugs in production. For example, imagine a supermarket. The cash register scans thousands of items ...
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Synthetic data – the new ‘gold’ standard

By Anon Anon posted Feb 19, 2016
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In QA and development, it has long been accepted that copies of production data are required as production data is the ‘gold copy’. Yes, that leads to a need to mask personalised data but it’s the quickest way to source referentially intact data, right? Well, wrong, and with stricter EU General Data Protection Regulation pending, now is the time to look at current practices and assumptions and introduce another approach that frees up time, resources and improves better project outcomes. A ‘gold copy’ database should contain the data needed to satisfy every possible test but in reality the vast majority of production data is very similar, covering “business ...
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Data breaches on the rise – so why not go synthetic?

By Anon Anon posted Feb 18, 2016
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Data breaches are becoming more prevalent, and the legislation should be made clearer and tougher. That is the message which comes out of the Californian Data Breach Report [1], published last month by the Attorney General of California, Kamala D. Harris. The report describes how the scale of data breaches is increasing at an alarming rate. In 2013, there were 167 reported data breaches in California, which affected more than 18.5 million of its 38 million consumers – a massive increase of 600% compared to the numbers affected in 2012. Meanwhile, the cost of such data breaches is on the rise. In 2013, the average cost of a data breach rose by 15% compared ...
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