{"id":583,"date":"2015-07-28T12:09:15","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T12:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gallop.net\/blog\/?p=583"},"modified":"2019-01-03T18:38:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T13:08:03","slug":"data-migration-testing-why-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/data-migration-testing-why-how\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Migration testing – Why and How?"},"content":{"rendered":"
The IT systems or applications of an organization capture, translate and present data in a defined manner enabling informed business decisions. Hence, data is the lifeline for the success of any business. To be able to deliver right information at the right time in the right format to the right set of people \/ stakeholders, data migration becomes essential at times. Some common scenarios wherein data migration takes place:<\/p>\n
Data can be migrated manually, but an automated ETL (Extract\u2013Transform\u2013Load) tool is often used for data migration. An ETL tool maps the source data structure to the target data base, also improves the quality of data by incorporating certain business rules as needed. Data migration becomes quite challenging when it involves a complex application with enormous data. A proper plan of migration is required in order to keep up the quality, reliability and integrity of data. Challenges of Data Migration include:<\/p>\n
A well-defined testing strategy is essential to mitigating the risks involved and delivering a successful data migration. Here are some of the best practices for Data Migration Testing:<\/p>\n
Owing to the criticality of the data and its usage in the business decision-making, data migration testing becomes much important. It requires specialized skills, expertise, tools, and resources. As a collocated independent software testing services<\/a> & specialist QA staffing services<\/a> company, Gallop Solutions provides advanced data migration testing services. Contact us<\/a> to navigate through your data migration needs successfully.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The IT systems or applications of an organization capture, translate and present data in a defined manner enabling informed business decisions. Hence, data is the lifeline for the success of any business. To be able to deliver right information at the right time in the right format to the right set of people \/ stakeholders, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1007,1008,1009,1010,1080],"ppma_author":[3736],"authors":[{"term_id":3736,"user_id":2,"is_guest":0,"slug":"admin","display_name":"Cigniti Technologies","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/120X120-1.png","url2x":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/120X120-1.png"},"user_url":"http:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/","last_name":"Technologies","first_name":"Cigniti","job_title":"","description":"Cigniti is the world\u2019s leading AI & IP-led Digital Assurance and Digital Engineering services company with offices in India, the USA, Canada, the UK, the UAE, Australia, South Africa, the Czech Republic, and Singapore. We help companies accelerate their digital transformation journey across various stages of digital adoption and help them achieve market leadership."}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}