IT Test Environments, Services and Tools

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IT Test Environments,
Services and Tools

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• In the IT organizations, efficient and effective
  management of non-production environments is very
  crucial to reap many benefits including cost
  savings, speedy delivery of products and
  quickening the responses to different business
  and IT needs.
• However, the irony is that not even IT
  professionals understand the full potential of IT
  environment management and its role to the
  success of an IT project in general.
• If not managed properly, IT test environment
  issues might delay the delivery of the projects.
  Thankfully, in recent years, IT organizations are
  understanding the importance of IT test
  environments and taking proper steps to have a
  planned IT test environment management.
• Program managers, project managers and test
  managers come across such IT test
  environment-related issues sooner or later during
  the project development life cycle and they
  witness late deliveries of their projects, facing
  the wrath of the clients.

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• What is IT environment management?
• IT test environment management is one of the main
  methodologies that can bring improvements in the
  overall quality of IT software development and
  can support throughout the product life cycle.
• An effective and highly efficient IT environment
  management ensures end-to-end, highly-functional
  and robust service for test software platforms or
  development environments in IT organizations.
• Almost all the functional test phases such as
  Unit testing, Integration testing, Acceptance
  testing, and other non-functional testing and
  development phases require IT test environments.
• Teams that participate directly or indirectly in
  IT environment management functions are software
  project teams, QA teams and UAT teams.

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• Following services the IT test environment
  management offer
• Creating, building, upgrading and supporting all
  test and development application environments and
  managing them all.
• Defining all the auditable processes efficiently
  such as application environment allocations,
  multiple bookings or shared usage of resources,
  code up-gradation, service level agreement
  creations and management, support to all teams,
  decommissioning and reallocation.
• Managing data refreshes, collecting test data and
  offering assistance in sensitive data
  sanitization and production.

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• During the software application development
  cycle, supplying, provisioning and managing all
  application environment requirements for a
  project.
• Assisting teams in establishing the application
  environment requirements, offering expert
  guidance about how to set up and connect IT test
  environments and how to use these environments in
  the best and most efficient manner.
• Helping teams in making and reviewing the Project
  Initiation Document (PID) with clearly defining
  the IT test environments management function and
  its deliverables.
• Creating and maintaining different project plans
  for the teams to assist them in managing all the
  activities needed to carry out major code
  upgrades to all application environments
  successfully.
• Generate reports related to usage/ utilization,
  availability of resources, forward planning and
  schedules.
• IT Test Environment Management Tools
• There are many IT environment management tools
  that you need to have to manage various IT test
  environments. Some of them are discussed below

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Configuration Management Database
(CMDB) Software This software or tool is used
to maintain a repository of different environment
components and its various versions. The tool
data also helps in incident management and
problem-solving management. Booking Tool The
booking tool is used to capture the allocation of
different IT test environments and to find
availability of these environments among teams.
You can also capture usage analysis.
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Problem / Incident Management Tools If any
incident/ problem arises, this tool is used to
capture the data and to manage the life-cycle of
the incident/ problem. This data is then used to
generate reports to check the health of the test
environments. It is important to use these tools
instead of using spreadsheets for the better
management of the IT test environments,
especially when the data is more.
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Contact Us

• Company Name Enov8
• Contact Person Ashley Hosking
• Address Level 5, 14 Martin Place, Sydney, 2000,
  New South Wales,
• Australia
• Email enov8australia_at_gmail.com
• Phone(s) 61 2 8916 6391
• Fax [phone]
• Website - https//www.enov8.com

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