Exploit a One-Click Build, Deploy, and Continuous Testing Solution
Overcome Challenges of Security, Speed, and Quality in your DevOps pipelines with Cigniti and Broadcom's Unified Test Data Management Product with an integrated Service Virtualization solution
Common Challenges Faced by Enterprises in Test Data Management
Cigniti – Broadcom Partnership
Cigniti – Broadcom’s TDM Solution: Unlocking Benefits in Cost, Compliance, and Security
The demand from competitors to produce new digital services faster keeps getting more intense for today’s businesses. During this process, it becomes increasingly important to optimize Test Data Management capabilities and processes. Teams can meet these expectations with the joint value proposition laid by Cigniti and Broadcom.
The best-in-class integrated offering from Cigniti and Broadcom allow teams to increase productivity and test data coverage, accelerating delivery and lowering risk. Together, Cigniti and Broadcom are in a unique position to assist businesses in resolving their critical Test Data Management challenges right away.
Broadcom’s Test Data Manager tool ranks in the top three across all Test Data Management use cases in the Bloor Research report and has 4/5-star rankings from 93% of the Gartner Peer Reviews. Coupled with Cigniti’s next-gen data assurance expertise, the tool offers maximum benefits in terms of cost, compliance, and security.
Key Benefits that our Partnership with Broadcom Helps you Achieve:
Up to 25% of project cost savings
Greater compliance and security by saving up to USD 332M in GDPR fines
Up to 30% increased productivity by avoiding manual processes
Improved quality and customer satisfaction by reducing data-related defects
Quicker market deployment with reduced costs from efficiently handling the testers’ average time spent on test data by as much as 90%
Key Use Cases
Identify Complex Data
Expose complex relationships within data via data profiling.
Generate Missing Data
Model and create synthetic data covering functional variations.
Protect Confidential Data
Discovers sensitive information stored across databases and environments.
Self-Provision Test Data
Test Data on Demand portal provides testers with self-serve, on-demand data.
Data Enable Virtual Services
Create or reserve the virtual data needed by Broadcom Service Virtualization.
Build More Accurate Tests
Incorporate both normal and flawed, abnormal data to increase test accuracy.
Connect Mainframe & Cloud
Find, secure or create data across both mainframe and distributed platforms at once.
Why it makes sense to augment use of Test Data Manager with Service Virtualization for Continuous Testing
Testing with unavailable systems
Enable early/shift left of testing; agile parallel dev/test; reduce escaped defects
Reduce TDM effort for available systems
VS creation effort/time is smaller than that for test data; improve agility and productivity
Improved testing of micro-services and APIs
SV with TDM makes it easier to test component based apps
Better together for supporting Continuous Testing in CI/CD lifecycle
TDM+SV supports seamless Continous Testing in each stage of pipeline and helps to reduce Lead Time for Change
Leverage other benefits of using SV
Examples: faster test env setup; reduction of infra costs; reduce lead time for change; shift left
Data Driven Virtual Service
Data Injection & Synchronization
Keyways in which Test Data Management approach for micro-services is different
Continuous Testing (and TDM) for micro-services require a more integrated approach w/ SV.
Greater emphasis on agile, synthetic test data
Need to support greater agility/shift left testing; developer/SDET friendly; generate from API specs
There may not be direct access to μ service databases; high variety of DB Types
Need to use APIs to access/set test data; other non-DB related ways to capture test data (e.g. sniffing)
Test data is highly distributed and needs synchronization
Difficult to scale traditional TDM practices across 1000s of services
Constrained agile parallel development due to extensive dependencies
Cannot be solved by TDM alone, especially in the CI stage
Thought Leadership
A CIOs Guide to Overcome Challenges of Security, Speed, and Quality with Test Data Management
A Cigniti-Broadcom Joint Thought Leadership Initiative Read this joint white paper by Cigniti & Broadcom to know how CIOs can leverage test data management to overcome the challenges related to security, speed, and quality.
Quality Engineering for the Digital Enterprise: Overcome Challenges of Security, Speed, and Quality
Now more than ever, there is a need for robust Test Data Management solutions, which allow organizations to provide unrestricted access to high-quality test data, whilst protecting against the risk of customer PII breaches.
Leverage other Key Benefits of Using Service Virtualization with Test Data Management
Simplification of test environments; faster setup; reduction of infra costs
Significant reduction of time to deploy virtual services (typically seconds/minutes) vs full apps (could be hours for complex apps like SAP). Reduce Lead Time for Change in the CD process
Better support for cloud computing needs
Containerized deployments of VS; support for auto-scaling test environments to match auto-scale of TDM functions
Better support for shift left of performance testing; improved reliability
Performance emulation in virtual services allows early perf testing and reduction of costly e2e load tests; allow shift left of TDM for perf testing
Better support for negative tests in conjunction with TDM
Better support for chaos tests; easier negative testing support with negative test data from TDM
Better inter-persona collaboration in DevOps
The use of SV enables better collaboration between architects, dev, SDET, testers, TDEs, deployment engineers, SREs, and OPS