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https://beta.iri.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/BR-1000-IRI-TD-Customisation-banner-977-x-250px-970x248-1.jpg970248We are going to discuss test data generation specifically. This forms a significant subset of test data management, being that it is an integral part of keeping your test data secure while allowing it to retain the characteristics that are important to your tests. To wit, either you will want to find any sensitive data within the data you want to test, then replace much or all of it with masked data; or you will want to generate entire sets of synthetic data (which is to say, data that is realistic but not real) for testing purposes. Or, quite possibly, both. Regardless, you will need some degree of test data generation capabilities.