© Jarrett Goldfedder 2020
J. GoldfedderBuilding a Data Integration Teamhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5653-4_7

7. Platform Automation

Jarrett Goldfedder1 
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Vienna, VA, USA
 

Software testers always go to heaven; they’ve already had their fair share of hell.

—Anonymous1

Introduction

I’ve repeated many times throughout this book how we often view data migration as a one-button operation—just select your source fields, push a button, and off you go, data migrated. By this point, I hope you realize that nothing is further from the truth. Data migration takes careful planning, days and perhaps weeks of research, and a wealth of collaboration via documentation, compromises, and meetings, all of which is the opposite of pushing a button.

After clarifying ...

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