Test environment and test data

The combination of these composite quality elements shown in the following list will determine the level of success and potentiality for achieving testing and business goals:

• Quality of the test environment (for functional and nonfunctional testing)

• Quality of the test data having a direct impact on the result's quality

• Quality of the recorded test scenarios and its automation to mimic real usage patterns of transactions workload and volumetric

• Quality of monitoring and reporting

• Quality and maturity level of the processes, which need to support the lifecycle of these activities in a repeatable way

• Quality of testing and service level provided by other components that interface with portal

In case of A2Z portal the test environment was very well controlled and administered in the test cloud. The test case itself was well managed and maintained via a data governance process created to identify, extract, sanitize, provision, reset or restage test data based on the...