Data Management and the Deployment Pipeline Creating and managing data to use with automated tests can be a significant overhead. Let us take a step back for a moment. What is the focus of our testing? We test our application to assert that it possesses a variety of behavioral characteristics that we desire. We run unit tests to protect ourselves from the effects of inadvertently making a change that breaks our application. We run acceptance tests to assert that the application delivers the expected value to users. We perform capacity testing to assert that the application meets our capacity
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