Slice simplifies application testing by allowing programmers to manage their own piece of DB2 test data.

TestBase eliminates the need to copy an entire database to test systems or write complicated and error-prone SQL scripts. TestBase extracts sub-sets or volume data reading all Referential Integrity (RI) information directly from the DB2 catalog tables. Alternatively, TestBase allows you to enter desired RI and masking rules and to then allow all testing personnel to utilise these rules when extracting their production data. Correctly applying RI and masking rules to all DB2 and legacy production data significantly improves test data as well as the overall quality of application testing. Furthermore, TestBase's Mandatory Masking permits your organisation to comply with data privacy mandates while providing data compliance to auditors.

TestBase also improves testing efficiency by giving each user a distinct view of their data. This allows multiple developers to concurrently load, refresh, compare and test against the same tables without unnecessary overhead or risk of data corruption or contention while eliminating the need for multiple test environments.

TestBase
Key Features

TestBase allows developers to manage and control their programming environment by:

• Sub-setting, extracting and moving RI data between source and target quickly and easily without relying on complicated SQL code.
  
  
• sharing test files easily - without fear of data corruption or contention.
  
  
• masking/transforming sensitive data to meet internal or statutory (HIPPA, GLBC) privacy mandates.
  
  
• reducing DBA time spent managing test environments
  
  
• creating summaries or detail comparisons of test results for regression testing.
  
  
• providing true parallel and isolated development testing without maintaining multiple data sets.
  
  
• concurrently loading, refreshing, comparing, and testing data.