Today, while many software development teams reap the benefits of automated coding, they find themselves slowed down by traditional test data management (TDM). Manual requests, ticketing queues, stale data, and compliance gaps—these conventional TDM approaches are fundamentally at odds with modern DevOps practices, severely dragging down both developer productivity and software quality.
How can you break through the data bottleneck and accelerate software delivery? You need a modern, DevOps-ready test data management solution: Perforce Delphix.
In this article, DragonSoft—an authorized Perforce partner—explores how Delphix leverages an API-first architecture to seamlessly integrate data delivery into CI/CD pipelines. Discover how this helps your team power millions of monthly CI/CD runs and ship higher-quality software, faster.
Digital Transformation Requires a Modern Approach to TDM
Traditionally, organizations have gained economies of scale by centralizing test data management (TDM), often through the use of tools that subset, mask, and synthesize test data. However, with the adoption of DevOps, a new set of challenges has emerged. In particular, many software development teams still rely on a manual, ticket-driven request-fulfill model in which developers and testers often find their requests queuing behind others. These manual, legacy TDM approaches are completely incongruent with modern DevOps practices and CI/CD processes that depend on API-driven automation and fast feedback to development teams.
As a result, many of the DevOps benefits related to developer productivity and software quality remain constrained by slow, stale, and low quality test data. To address modern challenges, DevOps teams must expand past legacy TDM practices and automate data delivery to CI/CD pipelines via unified APIs.
Deliver Realistic, Compliant Test Data in Minutes Not Days
Delphix provides an API-first DevOps TDM solution for multi-cloud environments that combines continuous data compliance with continuous data delivery. Ephemerally delivering compliant data into unlimited parallel test environments unlocks Dev/Test/QA teams to build and run more exhaustive unit and integration tests without blocking shared data resources for adjacent teams. Administrators can also identify and protect sensitive data before provisioning to users through integrated data masking. Finally, the Delphix DevOps Data Platform provides software development and testing teams with data APIs—including the ability to refresh, rewind, bookmark, group, tag, branch, and share test data—to accelerate DevOps productivity and improve application quality.
Features
Sync with Any Test Data Source
Delphix works across all clouds and apps, synchronizing with multi-generational data sources to capture a complete record of data changes.
• Non-disruptive, continuous sync
• Connect to production data sources, backups, and staging replicas
• Efficiently store data with 100x space efficiency
Easily Manage & Distribute Data
Efficiently version and distribute datasets to non-production environments.
• Instantly deploy enterprise data with greater cost-performance & speed
• Quickly sync, version, and distribute compliant datasets
• Easily deliver versioned datasets to anywhere in the multi-cloud enterprise
Simplified Data Compliance
Automatically identify and mask sensitive data values to meet compliance for GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and more.
• Preserve referential integrity
• Produce realistic values for testing
• Predefined and customizable masking algorithms
Transform Environments to Test at DevOps Speed
Use APIs to refresh to the latest data, rewind for cleanup, branch datasets, bookmark, and version data alongside code.
• Integrate data delivery into CI/CD pipelines
• Clean up data following destructive testing
• Spin up/down ephemeral environments
Open and Extensible
Delphix provides APIs to manage data operations across multi-generational multi-cloud environments.
• Comprehensive set of REST APIs
• Integrate with CI/CD and monitoring tools
• Continuously sync with production data and refresh downstream
Key Benefits
Double Project Velocity
Automatically provision fresh, compliant, and complete production datasets. Run exhaustive unit and integration tests in parallel improving test speed so teams can collaborate with fast feedback.
Improve Software Quality
Masked production data maintains real data handling situations for developers to exhaustively test their code and catch potential defects before production.
Achieve Compliance
Identify and protect sensitive data in test environments to meet compliance with GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and other privacy laws.
How to Get Started with Perforce Delphix?
Experience how Perforce Delphix can unlock the full potential of your data. As an authorized Perforce partner, DragonSoft provides comprehensive Delphix consulting and technical support services to help enterprises accelerate data-driven DevOps transformation.
● In-Depth Scenario Consulting
Our technical experts will gain a deep understanding of your current DevOps environment and data challenges, then design a tailored solution covering the entire process—from data source synchronization and data masking strategies to CI/CD pipeline integration.
● Localized Implementation and Support
With rapid response capabilities, we support your journey from PoC validation to production deployment, ensuring seamless integration between Delphix, your multi-cloud architecture, and existing toolchains.
● Continuous Enablement and Optimization
We provide team training, best practice guidance, and long-term technical support to help your teams fully leverage data API capabilities and enable Delphix to continuously drive DevOps efficiency improvements.
Don't let slow, outdated test data continue to hold back your release cycles. Contact DragonSoft today to get your exclusive Perforce Delphix solution and product demo:
Website: www.hkdsdtech.com
Phone: 852-51679050
Email: marketing@hkdsdtech.com
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