🧪 Synthetic Test Data Vocabulary
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A QA engineer says: "We use test data management (TDM) to ensure our test environments always have compliant, representative data."
What does Test Data Management (TDM) encompass?
Test Data Management (TDM) — the discipline:
| TDM activity | Description |
|---|---|
| Data sourcing | Select which real data (or generate synthetic) for test env |
| Data masking | Obfuscate sensitive fields in copies of real data |
| Synthetic generation | Create artificial datasets that avoid real PII |
| Subsetting | Extract a representative slice of production data |
| Compliance governance | Ensure test data meets GDPR, HIPAA requirements |
Key vocabulary: test data provisioning, test environment parity, data refresh cycle.