Test architecture and test data governance

Both the test architecture and test data governance disciplines offer a great opportunity to work collaboratively on the same testing strategy. As portal depends on many other systems, test architecture aligned with governance for data and IT allows all the potential bottlenecks to be tested holistically. The test architecture needs to be set early and be consistent with the overall functional and nonfunctional goals and technologies available.

Aligned with other types of governance, data governance defines the processes for selection, extraction automation, messaging, and reusability for test data. Having a repeatable set of test data sets the tone for the right level of reliability test data sets must provide. As portal is an integration point for many multiple data sources, it is crucial that all these sources have the same level of rigor with test data governance and systematic repeatable processes for automation of extraction, messaging,...