Advent of Test Environment Management and Its Benefit

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Advent of Test Environment Management and Its
Benefit
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• Today, the technology landscape is taking a
  paradigm shift. Organisations want to deliver
  high-performing and glitch-free applications
  along with less time to market.
• They are placing their fundamental aims high and
  implementing ways to keep up the pace for
  achieving the same.
• Before the efficient Test Environment Management
  tools came into the picture, critical tasks
  assignment generally lead to increased cycle time
  and hefty development costs.
• The increased complexity and the requirement of
  integration through various stages of development
  have made it imperative for organisations to
  adopt with right and efficient Test Environment
  Management.
• It facilitates end-to-end testing of applications
  on various user channels and also gives complete
  control over the development practices.
  Implementing dedicated TEM, IT organisations have
  an advantage of reduced cost, faster time to
  market and high-quality products.

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• It is surprising to know that TEM speeds up the
  process and time to market by almost 25 and also
  reduces infrastructure costs by 5 to 10 . You
  can expect team productivity rise by 30.
• Arent the figures enough for you to consider TEM
  in your organisation today itself? There are
  certain fundamental requirements for implementing
  the test environment functionality.
• Here is the list of tools and procedures
  requirement

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• Generation and management of automated bills
• Configured test machines
• Creation and cloning of production data
• Control over test data management and its
  version
• Functional and non-functional test tools
• An organisation needs a powerful team to manage
  the test environments so that there is no
  underutilisation of the process, and the
  inefficiencies of the product are eradicated.
• You will be amazed to know that a recent survey
  of the organisations reveals, they experienced
  40 less efficient because of the inadequate
  capacity of the testing team to manage the
  environments. This, as a result, increased the
  release time, and the organisations also had to
  bear the defect rate and additional development
  costs.

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• Involvement of multiple assumptions and time
  constraints lead to many TEM challenges that are
  listed below. Keep reading
• TEM requires the standardisation of test
  environments that meet the need for ongoing as
  well as future projects
• TEM demands precise software capacity and
  effective forecasting of the new projects
• It also needs provisioning, and configuration
  with heterogeneous assets
• TEM requires responsive and effective support for
  handling unexpected incidents and issues
• Organisations struggle for developing the
  business case of TEM
• It is a major challenge for the organisations to
  meet the lengthy test environment delivery
  timeframes
• The size and complexity of end-to-end test
  environments are challenging to maintain
• The environment should be able to function in
  continuity.
• TEM is better implemented if there is a dedicated
  team in the organisation for test environment
  setup, forecasting, allocation and automation
  handling. There should be allocated persons to
  continuously monitor the improvement and jot down
  the progress and the requirements for improving
  the process.

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• The proliferation of test environment management
  into the organisations have raised the bars of
  the products and its delivery. It is able to
  improve the software quality and lessen down the
  product time to market.
• TEM benefits are
• There remains only a single point of contact
  which further simplifies the resource testing and
  the efforts put behind it
• It facilitates better selection and utilisation
  of test assets and also reduces the overall
  testing cost

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• Organisations get the consistent process for
  allocation, setup and delivery of the test
  products
• TEM automation also reduces the testing time
• A dedicated and experienced team can optimise the
  test cases and their requirements
• Organisations have the privilege to choose the
  best test strategies and the tools that can
  improve the test coverage thereby raising the
  product quality
• A lot of testing tasks are simplified, and the
  burden on the testing teams is highly reduced.
  The automation facilitates acquiring, analysing,
  processing and deploying of the production level
  data
• The overhead cost is setting up the test
  environment and supporting it is quite less and
  affordable
• TEM facilitates better coordination and control
  over the lifecycle and any changes involved in
  it
• Organisations have the benefit of getting defined
  and measurable outcomes
• You can evaluate the testing tools, frameworks
  and cloud-based testing services.

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• The basic TEM tool requirements for an
  organisation are also shared in the next segment
  of this content.
• An organisation needs Configuration Management
  Database for inventory management of the test
  environments and the creation of subsets created
  explicitly for individual projects.
• To manage the test tools, assets and the set of
  production test data, organisations need Version
  Control Software.
• You will need a Resource Management System to
  ease out the team reservation of assets and
  capabilities.
• To keep track of the issues and unexpected
  defects in the product, organisations need to
  have an Incident Management System.
• You need to train the employees and the team
  involved in IT Test Environment Management to
  have a more efficient and self-sustaining
  environment.
• Along with the impeccable TEM advantages, there
  are certain limitations faced by the
  organisation.

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• These limitations are
• It is an extremely challenging task to find a
  standard TEM implementation for an organisation
  who have diverse project requirements in terms of
  the hardware, OSs platforms and connectivity
  options.

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• For such situations, it is then necessary to
  segregate the test environment departmentally for
  targeting specific classes of applications, and
  platforms. By departmentalisation, you reduce the
  complexity and make the best use of the test TEM.
• For an organisation not having a trained and
  dedicated team for TEM, the unexpected and
  odd software requirements are failed to achieve
  and align with the TEM capabilities. This can
  give rise to undesirable costs rise and results.
  It would be best if you involve an efficient team
  to avoid any impact of TEM on the product
  quality.
• In order to cope up with the increasing demand
  and reduce the complexities involved in the
  development process, it has become imperative for
  organisations to have a well-planned TEM
  implementation. Which organisation will like to
  compromise over the inherent benefits, faster
  development cycles, high-quality products and
  reduced costs?

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