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Simulate Data and Transformations for
Development
Challenges:
Development Accuracy
Application developers require test data that has the characteristic content and format of future production data. This is the only way to verify that each application step will work.
Development Concurrency & Security
Developers require data that are secure (i.e. do not violate privacy rules) and do not depend on other developers or phases of development to produce the data they need for their phase. Development may also need to be outsourced, and to occur in different locations concurrently.
Solutions:
IRI's RowGen software
produces accurate, safe test data that simulates application data --
and perhaps even the applications themselves.
Test Data Accuracy
Valid test sets must can contain the full range of values, data types,
record layouts, and file formats that an application must process. In
some cases -- especially when simulating summary report layouts -- you
will need the built-in transformation and formatting features.
Concurrent Development
By generating test data for each phase of development, you can develop
your phases simultaneously, and independently from other phases. For
example:
• Step 1 reads a personnel file and joins health and insurance
claim data to a personnel file to make a status file.
• Step 2 reads the status file and generates a list of doctors.
• Step 3 makes a web-ready billing summary sorted by patient.
RowGen can generate the input files for step 1, the status report for
step 2, and the web report in step 3 -- all without needing any data
or files from the other steps.
Secure Development
RowGen gives you the ability to synthesize any type, size, layout and
amount of safe test data so you can create and provide for a more secure
development environment.
Alternatively, the CoSort product allows you to use real data that is
protected with field-level functions (like encryption) on a need-to-know
basis. For details, see Solutions
> Field Protection.
Either way, with safe data, there is no need to certify, clear, bind,
or bond your developers or outsourced application providers.
Go between 'Test File Generation' and 'Real File
Production'
RowGen can show you what the real data can look like, and what the transformation
and reporting application can look like. That's because both RowGen
and CoSort use the same metadata to define data manipulations and file
layouts.
If you only use the RowGen product, you can easily upgrade to CoSort
to transform and report on the real data (when it becomes available).
Using the same job script RowGen used to define and transform test files,
CoSort will transform real files in the same format.
See also:
Products > RowGen (Test Data)
Solutions > Field Protection
Products > CoSort > SortCL
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