Roll up, roll up. I’m going on a mystery tour and I’m inviting you along. I’m going to get in touch with the financial organisations that are part of my life and I’m going to ask them about what journey my personal details can expect to take once they become test data.
It should prove [...]

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It is one thing to turn down the thermostat a notch or two at home and think about buying that hybrid car but how is your carbon footprint shaping up in the work environment?
Not good by most measures but the real shock comes with the realisation that something as simple (cough) as data testing [...]

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I’m a keen bright developer working for a bank working on a new report, the DBAs have given me a full copy of masked production data. To test I need to find some data that’s changed over time. Where should I start? I think my boss has just had a big pay [...]

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There is that old joke about a guy lost in the countryside who stops and asks for directions only to be told: “If I were you, I wouldn’t start from here.”
I thought about that baffling wisdom during a conversation about the use of production data in testing and development. If you were to ask [...]

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Most of us have no idea when it comes to figuring out ways to acquire the right kind of data we need for any type of test or development project. We’re lost. We’ve been taking copies of our live environments for years. It’s the only method we know.
There is only [...]

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