Test Data Management

Management is required in each and every phase of life and so does in any software project. A software project goes through many stages: requirement analysis, designing, development, testing and maintenance. In order to successfully complete each stage, a certain form of management is required. Testing stage also has a lot of tasks to be performed, so management is also required here. Test Data plays a very important role in Testing. It is the information used while executing test cases, or resulting from the execution of test cases. So, its management that is Test Data Management is a big concern and to make any project a success Test Data Management is necessary. Test Data Management is the process of identifying, acquiring, conditioning, populating, and maintaining test data during test planning, test preparation, and test execution and much of the work is automated in order to reduce cost, time required, manual work and errors. Keywords— Testing, Management, Data, TDM.