Automation Testing Deep Dive is an enticing event where professionals and newcomers alike can go all-in to share the knowledge about one of the testing branches with the most growth nowadays.

In this talk, Elias Nogueira shares his talk: Managing Test Data and he explains:

Have you ever tried to troubleshoot an issue taking a looking at the log files? I bet you did! And it turns out the issue is related to data usage because, you know, users will use real data! Developers won't! 

A good thing about your recent troubleshooting is that you can understand the data. It's not a bunch of numbers or UUIDs in the name field. How about your development environment? You probably use either hard-coded data or random strings. We must fix that!

This presentation will show you how to manage testing data in two different ways. The first way is the creation of a Test Data Factory approach, where we will use the Factory Pattern to easily create any objects we want with understandable and reliable data. This approach will make you in control of your own data, so you can find any bug in the early stages of the SDLC and the DataFaker library will help us to generate good random data in every execution.