Marty: Application Development and Testing with Production Data in PostgreSQL

Abstract

Marty is a proof-of-concept prototype for a framework that offers convenient application development and testing against data used in production that is stored in the PostgreSQL database management system. It is designed for minimal overhead and configuration on production servers while offering quick and simple database initialization on development and testing servers. This opens the possibility for application testing on production data with minimal effort, which complements conventional testing datasets and helps preventing bugs from entering production code which were not caught with the conventional datasets.