Test data plays a central role in testing and greatly impacts your testing effectiveness and productivity. Although it is possible to extract test data from a production environment, the process is time consuming and often leads to unacceptable data privacy and security issues. On the other hand, generating test data from scratch is tedious and cumbersome, requiring a profound knowledge of an application’s business rules. In complex environments, test data generation can eat up valuable testing time and resources, resulting in lower quality and a reduction to the value of testing to your project and organization. This Web seminar helps you strike a balance between the two approaches, offering an efficient test data management process that saves time and reduces costs.

Expert consultants from Cognizant Testing Services will explain ways to generate and manage test data in complex environments. Pradeep and Kannan describe innovative techniques and a proven process for creating or extracting comprehensive test data, masking test data to ensure privacy, and purging redundant test data.

In this Web seminar, you will learn:

• How proactive test data management improves efficiency and effectiveness
• Ways to reduce the test data complexity
• Approaches for critically evaluating tools that manage test data

Thomas McCabe, Jr. McCabe Product Specialist

Security breaches are often a result of multiple interactions within the software that, on the surface, appear innocent. Criminal attackers can disrupt a system by exercising a specific sequence of interdependent decisions that produces unforeseen and possibly disastrous consequences. Analyzing control flow paths and subtree structures is crucial for both testers and developers to verify control flow integrity and uncover serious security flaws hiding in the code. As part of a secure, trustworthy software development process, you need to identify and exercise paths through the code to ensure that program behavior is correct and expected. Simple techniques for line and branch coverage leave too many security gaps. For you organization’s mission-critical systems, you need a comprehensive validation approach that includes cyclomatic complexity and basis path analysis to scrutinize risky code structures and control flows.

In this interactive Web seminar, Thomas McCabe, Jr. discusses complexity metrics and basis path analysis as valuable tools to help you produce superior test coverage

In this Web seminar, you will learn:

• Why complexity leads to security vulnerabilities and breaches
• How to measure control flow integrity
• Ways to use static and dynamic path analysis to improve application security
• Why measuring source code paths is crucial to software security