Background- We have development and certificiation environments for SAP changes. These environments are kept in sync by ensuring that we adhere to a progression for configuration changes- they always move thru the same dev, quality, ceritfication, production process with testing at each phase.
As a business user, a challenge I encounter is having production type data available in the dev/qual/cert environments so that I can adequately test changes. We refresh our environments periodically to a copy of production, including data. After the refresh, no new data goes to these environments, only test data as entered by individual users and testers. This means that tests performed soon after a refresh have a lot of relevent production data to use for testing, but as we move further thru the year, the data is less and less avialable and less relevant.
Some of our changes are impacted by volume, but due to how we handle our environments, volume impacts are difficult to test or asess.
How do you manage production-like data for your dev/qual/cert environments? Do you encounter this same issue or have you found a solution?
Thank you!