Validata Blog: Talk AI-powered Testing

One of the key challenges in deploying DevOps is test data management, as in DevOps the need for data grows significantly. With more and more Temenos core banking clients turning to Continuous Delivery and DevOps practices, rigorous and agile testing is essential to releasing quality software. To do this you need quality data, and in most cases project delays occur because testers lack access to the data they need, when they need it.

Data migration in core banking is all about the seamless mapping of entries, balances, P&L/balance sheet data, customer information and all other related data from the source to the target system. The actual value is in the data so effectively migrating as much of this as possible will help to reap the returns on the overall project. Forrester estimates that around 60% of banks around the world are already planning or performing a transformation project, therefore an accurate and timely migration is critical for ensuring effective core banking system deployment and decommissioning of the old legacy systems.

Service Virtualization uses virtual set-up to address the challenges of Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) testing strategies and at the same time, if it is implemented effectively, it can accelerate the testing and development process within an organisation.

Many organizations use multiple systems to support the Reconciliation process which makes it difficult to get a unified view of the balance sheet and requires costly manual interventions to solve exceptions. With multiple sources of reconciliation data, there’s no single version of the truth. The manual work required to compare and reconcile data in different systems increases the administrative costs, introduces the risk of errors and slows down exception management. Manual processes and fragmented, siloed departments are the enemy when it comes to increasing operational efficiency.