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Time: The meeting starts between 11:55 am and 12:00 pm, a waiting room might be enabled if you arrive prior to this time. Meeting ends at approximately 1:00 pm.
Speaker: Ashok Kumar
Topic: Test Data – The Key to Robust Test Coverage
Access to good test data is critical to the success of any test function and testers spend a considerable amount of time preparing, managing & cleaning up this data. In an agile world it becomes even more imperative to be able to perform these test data activities in a faster, more automated manner.
For us as distributed agile teams, this was a big problem. We were struggling with creating bulk volume of data at short intervals for multiple teams distributed across a complex agile landscape, with different needs and prerequisites. The results of the tests setup by teams often exhibited erroneous results due to data being cross-used and contaminated. There was also a lot of duplication of test data as well as waste of effort creating data that could have been reused. We were manually creating data, thereby not reaching the needed coverage when data was required rapidly. We also needed to be able to provide test data to external partners, which added a lot of complexity in regards to communication, collaboration and simply sheer volume of data needed.
What we needed was a solution that would enable automated creation of data through multiple sources, that could be exposed to external partners as well as our internal teams. We needed to be able to seamlessly connect and extract the required test data in a way that was both performant, easy to use and allowed teams to reserve data to make sure their test results were unaffected by other tests. So we built the solution that fulfills all our needs!
Bio:
Ashok Kumar is the head of Quality Assurance & Engineering for Transunion Africa. In this position he leads Testing and Quality Assurance for the Africa region which enables Transunion to rollout innovative credit bureau solutions to our African customers at scale and with high quality. Ashok works with multiple agile teams within the company and coach them on the quality mind-set. Ashok has nearly 2 decades of experience in the testing domain across multiple industries such as financial services, retail, & credit bureau.