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(Quick) Tech Tip: Copy REST API Request From a Browser

By Sean-K-CA
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 ...
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What’s the secret to boosting DevOps productivity across your enterprise? Join us!

By Marvin.Mao
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 ...
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CA Test Data Manager Release 4.4

By matwi05
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 ...
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What’s New in Test Data Manager 4.2

By matwi05
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 ...
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What’s New in Test Data Manager 4.1

By Arif_Muhammad
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 ...
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Enabling Your Continuous Delivery Journey with End-to-End Integrations

By edwsc03
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, ...
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Webcast Recap: What's New in Test Data Manager 3.6

By Melanie_Giuliani
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 ...
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Manheim Accelerates Systems Testing & Business Transformation with CA Test Data Manager !

By Haylee_Thikeo
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 ...
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Putting the ‘T’ back into TDM

By Anon Anon
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 ...
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Masking: it’s technically legal, but is it really ever that safe or simple in practice?

By Anon Anon
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 ...
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Webcast Recap: Improve Your Virtual Services Quality using Synthetic Data via CA Test Data Manager Integration

By Lenn Thompson
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 ...
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CA Test Data Manager 3.5 is GA

By Arif_Muhammad
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 ...
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On-Demand Environments and Data – Stay Ahead of the Competition

By Anon Anon
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 ...
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How can synthetic test data make your day better, your job easier and your project a success?

By Anon Anon
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 ...
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Continuous Delivery: 5 Reasons why Test Data Management must extend beyond sampling production data

By Anon Anon
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 ...
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The right test data- Speed up testing to make Continuous Delivery a reality

By Anon Anon
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 ...
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Software bugs in production? We’ve got it covered.

By Anon Anon
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 ...
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Synthetic data – the new ‘gold’ standard

By Anon Anon
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? ...
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Data breaches on the rise – so why not go synthetic?

By Anon Anon
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. ...
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The top 5 reasons people are choosing to ‘Go Synthetic’ – and why you should too

By Anon Anon
Synthetic data, or test data generation is a hot topic in the Test Data Management industry at the moment. Here, I have chosen five of the many possible reasons why more and more testing teams are choosing to “go synthetic”. There are many different reasons ...
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