Grid-Tools Blog Author Archives - Richard Bender

Synthetic test data versus masked test data

Another interesting topic to address is the trade-off between synthetic test data and scrubbed or masked test data.  I got into this discussion with someone today who has a strong background in security related issues.  He was saying that scrubbed or de-identified test data can be un-scrubbed via various methods – e.g. reverse engineering the [...]

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The benefits of test data design

There are various measures that testers use to determine the completeness of their testing.  The most common is “When all of the test cases that we have designed and built have run successfully and there are no outstanding severity one or severity defects, we are done testing”.  The second most common is “When we run [...]

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