4 Crucial Factors That are Essential for a Successful Test Environment Management

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4 Factors That are Detrimental to the
Success of a Test Environment Management
System
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• Test environment management deals with the idea
  of dealing, managing, and controlling the
  enterprise level test environments.
• It consists of various types of components,
  including databases, hardware, software,
  applications, middleware, and test data. All this
  can be managed well with the help of procedures,
  tools, and resources effectively.
• However, with the ever-increasing number of test
  environment management tool daily, managing test
  environments has become more challenging than
  ever before.
• There is a clear-cut mandate for businesses that
  operate multiple slow, inconsistent and reliable
  test environments if they keep on doing the same
  thing they risk incurring higher operational
  costs and lower test coverage.
• Conducting businesses in the middle of unreliable
  test environments have made organisations vary of
  their higher operating cost and lower test
  coverage. Most of the organisations today
  recognise these challenges. They are working hard
  to include best practices that aid in
  transforming the current operating model to best
  in class test environment model.

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Without further delay, lets get started with
these factors. Efficient Management of
Resources
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• There are three ways to do this
• By giving absolute ownership by establishing a
  dedicated enterprise test environment management
  team. It is possible to overcome challenges of
  test environment model by adopting the Test
  Environment Management Enterprise model with a
  selected few initial difficulties. Once you have
  put in place a perfect transformation plan, the
  rest of the operational challenges can be
  addressed swiftly.
• Another way is by maintaining the same
  terminology at the enterprise level. Most of the
  time, it has been observed that people create and
  use their own words and jargon that can lead to
  misapprehensions in a test environment. This can
  result in delays which can hurt the quality of
  the test environment. The program governance team
  must define the terminology and ensure that the
  team adheres to it. With the help of
  standardisation, it is possible to get a better
  understanding and efficiency when it comes to
  collecting and disseminating information.
• If there is no centralised test environment team,
  it would be an extremely challenging task to
  implement knowledge management at the enterprise
  level. The program governance team has to plan
  and execute a well-structured knowledge base for
  test environment management. It also has to make
  sure that all the information is made available
  to the end-users and stakeholders.

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Strategic Planning Robust Program Governance
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• An organisation needs to define the test
  environment strategy at the enterprise level,
  especially when it comes to recognising the IT
  environment management tools challenge faced.
• It is vital to create a strategy document which
  will act as a masterpiece to execute test
  environment management as a comprehensive
  functional service.
• This strategy needs to be governed by the
  Program Governance Officer by closely working
  with relevant stakeholders.
• They create a program governance model by
  effectively comprehending the business
  requirement. And then align with the test
  environment proactively.

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Process Optimisation Operations Excellence
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• Consolidating environment estate is by far the
  most challenging exercise which comprises of
  getting relevant information about all owners,
  assets, contact details, vendor details, physical
  location details, etc.
• This is one of the biggest challenges at the
  enterprise level. The test environment team needs
  to concentrate on creating application
  constellation based on patterns.
• It should also know the best way to simplify the
  test environment landscape. The test environment
  team also have to work in unison with other teams
  and business units.
• The test environment team needs to get involved
  with the early stage of the project so that it
  can get the requisite information.
• Otherwise, due to lack of time, incomplete
  requirements and deficiency of the owner can
  result in the team to separate, which can result
  in a chaotic situation.

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Automation
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• It is possible to automate most of the activities
  across the test environment lifecycle with the
  help of single or multiple tools.
• These proven tools aid in auto deployments,
  auto-provisioning and test data management. To
  improve the turnaround time for the test
  environment, quite a handful of organisations use
  automation strategies like Service Virtualisation
  and Cloud Technology.
• Lots of organisations have already succeeded in
  automating their everyday test environment
  management activities, including incident
  management, knowledge base management,
  environment booking and service request
  fulfilment.

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• Final Thoughts
• These are some of the challenges faced by
  organisations while performing in a test
  environment. The most important thing for an
  organisation is to inculcate best practices at
  the enterprise level, which can pave the way for
  a higher level of transformation.
• With the help of the things mentioned in this
  write-up, you will be able to effectively utilise
  the assets and resources with the assistance of
  the right test environment at the right time.
  This will aid in reducing the cost of operations
  and also enhance quality.
• Day-by-day organisations are investing more in
  test environments so that they can execute the
  best practices and automate activities in the
  best possible way.

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  New South Wales,
• Australia
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