Made-up data you use to practise a process, so that no test reaches real customers.
Test data is made up, but built like the real document. Module 2 calls the set of such data that you build for your time sink the test set. Every entry begins with TEST, names are called, for example, TEST-Person-1, and made-up email addresses end in @example.org. The process reads only the test folder and sends only to an internal mailbox, and before every test you ask: which address gets what if this test runs through?
Example from Module 2
Planning office [example]: A process emails the minutes of the site meeting to everyone involved. For testing, the office sets up a folder of its own with sample data only, and the process reads only that folder and sends only to an internal mailbox.
Module 2: “Protecting data: encapsulate and check”. In the Werkbank course room, with sign-in.