Broadcom Test Data Manager Room for Improvement

Amit-Rastogi - PeerSpot reviewer
TDM Architect at T-Mobile

Broadcom Test Data Manager is for data management. I would like to see some extension with data warehousing concerning ETL. It should also integrate with Jira or other reporting tools. Currently, after creating data, we update tickets and other information in various tools. This would enable us to attach relevant files or information to specific tickets. 

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MH
Senior Presales Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

I would request to extend the data source support because there are a lot of cloud-native SaaS-based solutions in the market. Like, Azure has its data sources, Amazon-specific data sources, and there are a lot of proprietary data sources outside as well. I recommend the team to expand the data source support.


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PL
Test data management consultant at Tech Mahindra Limited

Regarding improvements in the solution, we always need to customize Broadcom Test Data Manager because every customer and every organization is different. So, a few changes are always required, for which we get support from Broadcom.

Stability is an area in the solution that has room for improvement. In general, the price, stability, and scalability could be better.

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AT
Senior Test Data Management Specialist at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

As the solution continues to evolve, the one thing I like about it is the API-friendly layers that they have added into the realm. So, I just would like to see more support around that and more usability. If we can continue expand upon that, then it is going to open a lot of doors.

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AT
Senior Test Data Management Specialist at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

An increase in the types of programmatic capabilities could allow the tool to be more powerful. For instance, often data inserts in one table are contingent upon entries or flags from another. In these situations, there is no way to choose to include/exclude a row based on the primary table.

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it_user797916 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Dev manager at T-Mobile

The additional feature probably would be a data reservation that is more robust, where you can actually use it consecutively. It is a difficult way to do things, so the data reservation, for us, is very important.

Also, maybe they could make it easier to model databases, because right now it is really technical, so to train someone on it takes a while.

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it_user752190 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

If you want to automate something, you need to figure it out. There is no easy way (software is only for Windows). I am missing a lot of terminal tools, or API for the software.

The software is working on Windows and, from some perspectives, that might be a problem. From our perspective, it is a problem because we need to have a different team to deploy for our Windows machines. This is a con from our perspective. Not a big one, but still.

They have already improved this product since our testing of it, so it may be that the following no longer applies.

The interface is definitely one you need to get used to. It's not like a current interface which is really clear, easy to check. It's like from those days, some time ago, an interface that you need to get to know.

Also, we are using a specific database. We are not using Oracle or SQL, Microsoft. We are using Teradata. There are some things that they don't have in their software. For example, when delivering data, they are not delivering them in the fastest possible way. There are some things which are faster.

We asked CA if there would be any possibility to implement our suggestions and they promised us they would but I haven't seen this product for some time. Maybe they are already implemented. The requests were very specifically related to the product we have, Teradata. This was one of the real issues. 

Overall, there was not much, in fact, to improve.

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it_user572823 - PeerSpot reviewer
AVP Quality Assurance at GM Financial

I would probably like to see improvement in the ease of the rule use. I think sometimes it gets a little cumbersome setting up some of the rules. I'd like to be able to see a rule inside of a rule inside of a rule; kind of an iterative process.

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it_user453708 - PeerSpot reviewer
Practice Manager (Testing Services) at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I think the kind of the big area for exploitation for us is already a feature that already exists within the tool. The TCO element is something massive, I talked earlier on about the kind of the maturity and the structure that it gives you to testing. I think this is kind of a game changer in terms of articulating impact of change and no project goes swimmingly first time and therefore the ability to impact a test through kind of a making simple process changes is a massive benefit.

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it_user779256 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at American Express

The interface based, on our unique test case - because we are extremely unique platform - could be better. We have to do multiple steps just to create a single output. We understand that, because we are a niche architecture, it's not high on their list, but eventually we're hoping it becomes integrated and seamless.

As noted in my answer on "initial setup", I would like to see that I don't have to do three steps, rather that it's all integrated into one. Plus, I'd like to know more about their API, because I want to be able actually call it directly using an API, and pass in specific information so that I can tune the results to my specific needs for that test case. And actually make it to where I can do it for multiple messages in one call.

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it_user778575 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Director at Sogeti UK
  • Addition of more data sources.
  • Make the Portal a little more user-friendly, make it even easier to configure things directly from the Portal.
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it_user797949 - PeerSpot reviewer
Domain Manager at KeyBank National Association

I think the biggest one will be - all financial institutions are based on mainframes, so they're never going to go away. Opportunities to increase functionality and efficiencies within the mainframe solution, within this TDM product. Certainly, it does what we need out there, but there's always opportunities for greatly improving it.

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PB
Front Line Manager at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The relationship between cables needs to be added.

A lot of research, data analysis, and work needs to be done on the source system in the tool which requires a data expert. This tool definitely requires a senior person to work on this issue, as it might be a challenge for a tester.

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it_user558156 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quality Assurance at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution can really improve on non-relational data structures because that's a big industry use case which we are foreseeing, with non-relational database structures. I talk about databases. I talk about request-response pairs; the services data generation. We use it so much for virtualization. If we could create the web services request-response pairs non-relationally supporting GET, POST, and so on; that would be a big win for us.

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PD
Senior Technology Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

There are multiple things which can be improved in CA TDM. It has a feature called TDM Portal, where testers can find test data by themselves, based on multiple models. They can reserve the data so that it belongs to one group or individual. Obviously, that data is not available to anybody else. Without this tool, if somebody goes through the back end, via SQL and pulls that data, you can't do anything. But through the Portal, if somebody reserves the data, it's his. This feature is for one environment. But if a different group of testers wanted that data for a different environment, they can't use it via CA TDM. That feature doesn't exist. You have to build a portal or you have to bridge the two environments. That is a big challenge.

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VB
Practice Head - Digital Testing at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The UI could be improved and I see they are going to web-based. That's still in progress but I really hope all of that happens pretty soon and the entire UI gets migrated from the desktop to web-based.

The integration with various utilities is also really important. That still has to happen. That's a major area for improvement.

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it_user796329 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at The Williams Companies, Inc.

One of the features that I wanted, which I think is going to be released, is to be able to create virtualized data sets, or virtualized databases. That's a feature we're going to take advantage of. All of our developers will be able to have their own virtual copy of a golden copy of our database, and be able to do transactions against their virtual copy, and then restore back to a known good checkpoint.

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PD
Senior Technology Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Broadcom TDM takes a long time to import documents, which wastes time that could be spent on other things. It also hasn't evolved much in the last ten years. In the next release, Broadcom should add more mining, search, and variable capabilities.

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GE
IT Specialist at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

There are different modules for masking. There is a portal and there is a standalone application as well. The standalone application is more old-fashioned. When you write rules on this old-fashioned interface, because it has more complex functions available for use, you can't migrate them to the portal. 

We also have some security policies in our company that needed adaptation. For example, the people writing the rules would see all the production data, which is a large problem for us. It would be helpful if there was an increase in the ability to apply security policies.

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it_user628044 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Project Manager /Senior Solution Architect at Cognizant
  • More features on Big Data environment data privatization. 
  • Synthetic data generation on domain specific. 
  • SAP test data generation for SAP testing.
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MS
Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

More data visualization, the way that we are looking at data, we want to be able to see it in different ways. So, we are looking to expand the visualization of that data.

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it_user572907 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Specialist at Cox Automotive

It's cool that right now with this tool, they're doing a lot of things to continuously improve it. I think Test Data Management as a strategy across the whole organization, has really picked up a lot of momentum, and CA’s been intelligent to say, "We have a really great product here, and we can continue to evolve it."

Right now, they're taking everything and taking it from a desktop client and moving it into a web portal. I think there's going to be a lot of flexibility in that. If I was going to look at one thing that I am hoping they are going to improve on is – it is a great database tool – I'm not always sure about the programmatic abilities of it. Moreover, specifically, it's great in terms of referential integrity across multiple systems, multiple tables, but I do find a couple of limitations every now and then, because of trying to maintain that referential integrity; that I have to go in and try to manually make sure I want to break things.

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it_user466854 - PeerSpot reviewer
Practice Leader - DevOps at CIBER
it_user542772 - PeerSpot reviewer
COE Consultant Test at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Automating repetitive tasks.

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it_user572886 - PeerSpot reviewer
Client Partner at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

I think one thing we would like to see is how quickly it can be used like a SaaS product. You can just plug in incoming data that we have from different sources; how quickly that can be integrated and how the test data can be generated. That quickness I think is something that can be improved.

If plugins can be developed very quickly, that will help companies like us, because we have hundreds of data sources.

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it_user558477 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The current version of the product is composed of several sub applications and the UI screens of those apps are not user-friendly enough. We are expecting that existing product should be merged to a single web based application supporting HTML5.

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it_user778602 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Architect at Global Bank Corporation

We just started using it. I can't tell you right now.

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it_user778785 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Test Data Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

They are currently working on a lot of things that we have requested to simplify: the UI and to make it more consistent; a better fit and finish. Get everything centralized into the portal.

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it_user558576 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engagement Manager at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I can't think of anything at this point in time.

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it_user778692 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Developer Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

There are some known bugs that I have found, but I think those are known issues. I think those issues just need to be worked out.

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it_user558504 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

I would like to see more support for generating the data for loading performance.

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