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Gartner®, 3 Steps To Improve Test Data Management for Software Engineering, 2025
"Inefficient test data management increases regulatory noncompliance risks and development bottlenecks"
- Gartner
If your development team is losing time waiting for the right test data, you might be facing a case of Test Data Mismanagement.
This challenge often goes unnoticed because organizations rarely track how much time and how many resources are spent on test data provisioning. However, the symptoms are clear:
- Bottlenecks that delay new releases.
- Undetected code errors making their way into production.
- Limited test automation, making CI/CD integration more difficult.
- High compliance risks, with increasingly severe penalties for improper use of real data.
Ultimately, poor test data management impacts productivity and erodes confidence among testing and development teams.
So, how can you fix it?
According to Gartner, there are three key steps to address this challenge:
- Make TDM a business strategy, breaking down silos and improving cross-team collaboration.
- Implement continuous TDM management and orchestration, ensuring accurate test data at every stage of development.
- Leverage synthetic data generation, speeding up testing without compromising security or compliance.
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Citation: Gartner, 3 Steps to Improve Test Data Management for Software Engineering, 2025, Ross Power, Alys Woodward, Jim Scheibmeir, Joachim Herschmann, Thomas Murphy, January 28, 2025
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