Guideline: Tips - Define Central Starting Point (AST)

Use of production data

A variant on obtaining test data from production is to have test data supplied by users. No one knows the system and associated data better than they do, including the ‘difficult’ cases. Ask each user for a number of difficult cases in the form of test data. This can be done by having the user himself take his place behind the test object and input these cases. Another possibility is to copy the specific cases from production and put them into the test environment.

Confidentiality of the data used

With anonimisation, take care that all the data are anonimised in the same way, so that they remain consistent with each other in a variety of files.