Mistakes Made by Companies While Managing Their IT Test Environment

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Mistakes Made by Companies While
Managing Their IT Test Environment

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• To set up a well-designed test environment, it is
  imperative to have a comprehensive and effective
  IT test environment management strategy in place.
  
• There is no other option left as, without one,
  you may end up in absolute chaos during the
  testing phase of a software development life
  cycle.
• This will ultimately have a significant impact on
  the effectiveness and suitability of the test
  results.
• Since the testing approach differs with each code
  requisite, a standard test environment does not
  hold true.
• It is, therefore, imperative that the test
  environment management is done in such a way that
  it can easily be customised on the basis of a
  specific code under scrutiny.
• It would help if you also kept this in mind that
  designing, configuring and setting up a test
  environment is not an easy feat to achieve as
  there are lots of variables involved. This makes
  it essential to have a robust test environment
  management strategy on top of a skilled test
  environment manager to execute it.

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• Lets now look at some of the mistakes made by
  companies while managing their test environment.
• Designing a Test Environment with Vague
  Imperatives
• It is criminal to start designing a test
  environment without even understanding the
  requisites.
• This can result in a serious gap between what was
  required and what is ultimately delivered. In
  case the test environment manager does not have
  clarity about what they are expected to build and
  deploy, they might end up developing a sweet dish
  for someone who wanted to eat a spicy sandwich
  (pun intended!). How ironic is that?
• When you design a test environment with
  misaligned requirements, it can have different
  sets of hardware, software, and servers than the
  important ones required to perform the test in
  the very first place.
• This misalignment will fail not only the test but
  also an increase in the testing budgets and a
  costly setback to the delivery schedule.

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• Testing an Environment That Differs a Lot from
  the Production Environment
• Everyone knows that there are different types of
  test environments used for various levels of
  testing. This includes
• Development environment
• Testing/QA environment
• Staging environment
• Production environment
• The development environment is executed by the
  developers themselves to perform unit testing on
  the codes they write before passing them to the
  next level. In the testing/QA environment,
  regression testing is performed to make sure that
  the new feature addition does not have any effect
  on the existing ones.
• This environment is also used to perform other
  functional and non-functional testing as per the
  requirement.

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The staging environment is the mirror reflection
of the production environment. It is as close to
the live environment as possible. With its
help, testers can easily decipher an
applications actual behaviour after deployment.
This is the environment where it is possible to
detect maximum defects and prevent defect leakage
in the production. When a software application
is tested in an environment that differs a lot
from the production environment, it is possible
to get a substantial discrepancy in the way
application performs during the testing and the
way it performs after deployment. So, these are
some of the mistakes made by companies while
managing their IT test environment.
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