5 Effectual Strategies to Ensure Test Environment Management

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5 Effectual Strategies to Ensure Test
Environment Management
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• Today the business sector is flourishing and it
  is all because of its quality assurance criteria
  and excellent testing methods.
• Quality assurance is impeccable for every
  organization to deploy a high-performing and
  bug-free application that serves two main motives
  of the business- customer satisfaction and high
  profits.
• The companies are adopting a continuous testing
  strategy and shift-left approach to intensify the
  quality of the application while reducing the
  chance of failure right after deployment.
• Software testing is a complicated task as it
  involves various constraints, assumptions,
  critical success ratio, and dependencies.
• To achieve the desired result, there is a
  requirement of a test environment that is near to
  real-life conditions rather than assumptions. The
  creation of an ideal environment requires proper
  planning, vital management skills, and precise
  execution at the end.
• The main aim of the test environment management
  is to create a more stable and suitable
  environment. This will consist of software,
  databases, hardware, and networking elements to
  properly execute the testing process and finding
  bugs.

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• Moreover, IT environment management tools are
  equally essential for the smooth working of
  software testing. Companies are not completely
  adopting TEM is because of high investments and
  low returns. On the other hand, there are around
  4 of companies that have integrated TEM approach
  for their business.
• As the test environments are evolving, it has
  become important for any organization to adopt it
  in its developing process. In this article, we
  have focused on different ways by which an
  organization can reduce the challenges to
  implement reliable testing strategies.
• Know the Requirements of the Organizations

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• When you start off with the planning process, it
  becomes vital to know the requirements. If the
  expectations of the clients are clear, you can
  deliver the best possible results.
• Every organization must assure that the test
  management strategies are devised as per the
  requirement of the consumer.
• Once the preferences of the customers are known,
  the testers would immediately know the test
  environments.
• The testers must write down the test cases, make
  changes as per the demand and incorporate it
  during the test case.
• Any change in the resource base can be done at
  the time of development which can assist the
  tester in further process.
• Therefore when the test environment needs an
  update or dismiss, it will be easier for a tester
  to do it when the base is in hand.

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• Move towards Planning and Coordination
• One cannot deny the fact that to get the end
  result of testing, proper planning is necessary.
  There are chances to have some sought of disputes
  in the developing and testing team due to a lack
  of separate test environment management tool.
• Therefore, the environment managers must make a
  plan, do coordination and schedule the work to
  avoid such differences. A strategy must be formed
  to streamline the testing activities and avoid
  unnecessary delays for the release of the
  products.

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• Moreover, it is not always a good option to
  arrange two different environments as it can
  increase the organizations financial burden.
  Also, sharing the tools may increase the usage of
  the assets and reduce the installation cost.
• If both the team maintains effective
  communication, they can easily get rid of the
  confusion, reducing the chance of chaos.
• Implement Automation To Reach the Standards

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• It is important to define the standards of the
  test environment based on the needs of the
  consumer.
• Once the team decides these targets, the
  functions like an iterative task, deployment,
  process of the build, and automated shakedown are
  followed.
• Therefore, a couple of hours can be saved to
  undertake the manual task.
• By using the lean testing approach in the
  development process, the automation is enabled to
  the accomplishment of the CI/CD pipeline.
• The work of manual tester can be reduced by
  implementing automation in test environment
  management tools to carry on the task of CI/CD,
  configuration management and workload automation.
• Automated TEM tools are used to decrease the
  number of test environments during the testing
  stage.
• This not only reduces the cost but also improves
  the test environment working period.

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• Protect Your Test Data
• According to a recent survey, 40 of the
  companies believe that the threats are from
  internal sources. As cyberattacks are rising, the
  data of any IT organization is at complete risk.
  It has become crucial for businesses to protect
  their data and avoid using the clients real
  information during the testing process.
• By using ETL automation, data fabrication, and
  virtualization of service, it is ensured that the
  data is compliant with set standards of PII.

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• Include Infrastructure - as - code Methodology
• Infrastructure-as-code Methodology helps in
  configuration, unsupervised provisioning, and
  deploying the operations environments. On top of
  that, IaC aids organizations for continuous
  monitoring and structural maintenance like
  version control configuration changes, network
  connectivity, and writing scripts for further
  adjustments.
• This test environment also attracts collaboration
  and effective change in the environment.

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• As the process of supervision and configuration
  is mundane, IaC removes the need for written
  documentation and eventually saves a lot of time.
  
• The End
• The test environment strategy can only be
  successful if it is accurate and transparent. As
  mentioned above, the company would need efficient
  planning, process optimization, resource
  management, and test automation to reach the
  desired target or standard of testing.
• With the right kind of testing equipment, one can
  easily achieve a reliable end result.
• We hope, by employing the above-given ways, you
  would be able to generate accurate test
  environment management strategy.

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• Address Level 5, 14 Martin Place, Sydney, 2000,
  New South Wales, Australia.
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