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1. TestBase

2. TestBase
Test Data Management Solution

3. www.SoftBase.com

4. SoftBase
Company Background
 One of the oldest independent DB2 tool companies in the world (since 1987)
 Top-rated Dun & Bradstreet™ small business – consistent lowest-risk rating
 Average Employee Tenure: 8 years (from Platinum, BMC, Quest, IBM, etc…)
 Partnered with Key Industry Companies (IBM, Macro 4, etc…)
 Profitable every year of our existence, huge annual R&D
reinvestments (1 patent, 3 pending)
 24x7x365 global technical
 (phone, web, email) Corporate headquarters
in the beautiful
North Carolina
Blue Ridge Mountains

5. SoftBase
SoftBase is Industry-Established
International DB2 Users Group Conference Participant
1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
IBM DB2 Technical Conference/IOD Participant Member
1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
2006, 2007, 2008, 2010
IDUG Europe Participant
2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
IDUG Canada Participant Partner
2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
Founded in 1987, this is our 23nd Anniversary!

6. TestBase
Test Data Management
Testing Challenges/Issues
 Current Test Data Practices
TestBase as a Solution
 How TestBase is Faster, Better & Safer
TestBase Demo
 Live Product Tour

7. TestBase
Testing Challenges
 Full production test data copies dramatically reduce overall
number of tests that can be run ANALYSIS
DESIGN
 Test data quality is poor CODE
 Overall application quality is poor and post-production DB2
bugs occur regularly
TEST
 Developers and QA personnel are constantly stepping on
each other’s toes
IMPLEMENT
 Confidential and sensitive data is left unsecured in the DB2
test environments ?????

8. TestBase
Typical Test Data Management
Method 1 Method 2
or

9. TestBase
DB2 Test Data
Creating DB2 test data is not easy!!
ANALYSIS
 It must be representative of real business data to be useful. DESIGN
 It must contain the Referential Integrity. CODE
 It should be available to all developers.
 Must NOW comply with Data Privacy. TEST
 These issues force many shops to look for a solution.
 So what is the Solution?
IMPLEMENT
?????

10. TestBase
What is TestBase?
DB2 Data Population
 Build DB2 test data from scratch
 Extract test data from production (small or large volumes)
 Mask to Protect sensitive production data
DB2 Data Edit
 Menu driven SQL
 Modify data in DB2 tables
DB2 Slice & Compare
 Simultaneous testing in one set of DB2 tables
 Regression testing
 Test Data Versioning

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Why TestBase?
Only TestBase Can Provide
 Full Relational Support of DB2 for z/OS, VSAM, QSAM, and DB2 for LUW
 Integrated Data Movement, Generation, Privacy, Editing, & Comparing
 Single-Step Data Movement
 Test Environment Sharing (Slice)
 Mandatory Masking
 Auditor Privacy Reports

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Test Data Using TestBase

13. TestBase
TestBase Solution 1
Test Faster
 Quickly extract realistic and manageable sets of RI related data
 Automate most common test data generation tasks
 Generate test data from scratch
 Retrieve and refresh our own test data whenever you like
 Test together and independently (vs. One Developer At A Time)

14. TestBase
TestBase Solution 2
Test Better
 Run more tests with better data
 Extraction rules and RI relationships established once
 Everyone at your company will have great test data!
 TestBase Compare Report quickly validates that changes worked correctly
 TestBase also can provide you with powerful regression Compare Report that
proves that nothing was accidentally broken in the DB2 application

15. TestBase
TestBase Solution 3
DB2 DB2
Test Safer QSAM
z/OS
VSAM
LUW
-The Data Privacy Solution
Production Employee Table
 Remove and replace ALL confidential and SSN
349445555
Salary
24,800
sensitive test data from your testing
environments
 Database Administers and Corporate
Security Officers can carefully plan out and Test Employee Table
SSN Salary
then deploy a Data Privacy solution 123456789 99,999
 TestBase Auditor reports confirm that IT has
done its job successfully
Audit Report

16. TestBase
Managing Test Data Demand
Source (production) DB2
Full Data Volumes
Every Project Team Wants Their Own Copy of Production Data
Full Size Full Size Full Size
User 1 User 2 User 3 User 1 User 2 User 3 User 1 User 2 User 3
Edit/Modify Test Data Edit/Modify Test Data Edit/Modify Test Data

17. TestBase
TestBase Architecture: 3 Scenarios
Source (production) DB2 DB2
Full Data Volumes QSAM VSAM
z/OS LUW
Mandatory Masking - Remove & Replace Confidential/Sensitive Data
Register Referential Register Referential
Integrity and Subset Integrity and Subset
Slice Test Data
Secure Secure Secure
Subset “sliced”
Full Size subset
User 1 User 2 User 3 User 1 User 2 User 3 User 1 User 2 User 3
Edit/Modify Test Data Edit/Modify Test Data Edit/Modify Test Data

18. TestBase
TestBase SLICE Fundamentals
 Unit testing demands tester independence
 Testers must be able to retrieve and refresh test data
without affecting each others results
 TestBase Slices must support different DB2 and legacy
data types and represent different periods in time

19. TestBase
TestBase SLICE Fundamentals

20. TestBase
TestBase SLICE Fundamentals

21. TestBase
TestBase SLICE Fundamentals

22. TestBase
TestBase SLICE Fundamentals

23. TestBase
TestBase SLICE Fundamentals

24. TestBase
TestBase SLICE Advantages

25. TestBase
TestBase SLICE Advantages

26. TestBase
TestBase SLICE Advantages

27. TestBase
Data SLICE In-Time
Unit Testing 2 or 3 days QA Testing

28. TestBase
TestBase Review
Source (production) DB2 DB2
Full Data Volumes QSAM VSAM
z/OS LUW
Mandatory Masking - Remove & Replace Confidential/Sensitive Data
Register Referential Register Referential
Integrity and Subset Integrity and Subset
Slice Test Data
Secure Secure Secure
Subset “sliced”
Full Size subset
User 1 User 2 User 3 User 1 User 2 User 3 User 1 User 2 User 3
Edit/Modify Test Data Edit/Modify Test Data Edit/Modify Test Data

29. TestBase
What TestBase Can Do
QSAM DB2 VSAM
 Eliminate Full Copies by Extracting, Subsetting and
Moving ALL DB2 RI data anywhere within your Remove/Replace
Remove/Replace
Confidential Data
Confidential Data
organization
 Mask ALL confidential and sensitive data before it
Extract/Register
Referential Integrity
reaches the test environments
Slice Test Data
 Permit multiple applications to access the same data
via SLICE – Eliminating multiple test environments of
Full Volume data
 Virtually eliminate the time DBAs spend generating and
User 1 User 2 User 3
synchronizing test data

30. SoftBase
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