The Negative Impact of Inefficient Environment Management on Software Testing

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The Negative Impact of Inefficient
Environment Management on Software
Testing
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• Every software development company needs to think
  hard whether a lack of control over the
  non-productive environment is the fundamental
  reason due to which management of software
  environments fails big time.
• What is the ultimate cost of poor environment
  management?
• It might be true that your teams might be
  functioning at full-throttle while using a test
  environment management tool when it comes to
  testing the production environment.
• However, many are not so fortunate as they do not
  have everything locked in decentralised local
  spreadsheets and emails.
• Due to this very reason, it becomes difficult to
  maintain efficiency and version control, which
  results in configuration gaps, ultimately causing
  significant delays in software delivery.
• However, it is exceptionally vital to manage your
  environment language in businesses.
• There are hundreds of environments where the
  application needs to be tried and tested in
  todays agile development requirements.

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• Without knowing the complete truth, it can become
  a time-consuming process that can cost your
  organisation a lot every year.
• So, why exactly is there a challenge to have
  efficient environment management? Lets try and
  answer this question.
• If you are in a business that is totally
  dependent on software development, it is vital to
  be familiar with a variety of resources that need
  to be managed efficiently.
• There is a lot of complexity around. When you
  have a large number of applications, it requires
  more environments, ultimately resulting in more
  environment management.
• Still, 95 of organisations do not have any idea
  about what the environment looks like.
• There are times when you will need more than one
  environment for each application. For example, if
  you wish to test a new feature before putting it
  into production, you will need to run it in an
  isolated test environment initially.

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• According to research conducted by the Enterprise
  Management Associates (EMA), Test Environment
  Management (TEM) users have to face the top three
  significant challenges
• Executing automated test environments (29)
• Lack of visibility into test environment
  inventory and availability (22)
• Configuration drift (19)
• Test cycles can be delayed by weeks and even
  months, mainly due to inefficient production
  environments that do not serve the purpose. So,
  now it is clear that with the number of
  environments increasing at a steady pace,
  centralisation is the way to go ahead in the near
  future.
• According to a survey conducted by EMA research,
  inefficient environment management costs an
  average enterprise 1.4 million every year.
• This makes an organisation suffer a substantial
  loss. The good news is by using the right
  environment management tools it is possible to
  reduce the time to provision environments. If you
  take the help of Jira release management tools
  like Apwide Golive, it can reduce the time
  considerably.

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• In simple words, this means if your organisation
  is employing an average of 188 environments, it
  is possible to save more than 128,000 every
  year. On top of this, the EMA research indicates
  that efficient environment management can assist
  you
• Decrease the time for an application to reach the
  production stage by a maximum of five weeks.
• Save a maximum of 10,000 on every release in
  staff overheads.
• Enhance application quality - which will result
  in a smaller help desk - with an average savings
  of approximately 2,500 on every release.
• This means that the long-term gains of executing
  efficient environment management are far more
  significant than the short-term cost.

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