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Why Development Operations Require Test Data
Management?
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• Testing is an important component of modern
  software development. Developers live by the
  mantra if it is not tested, it's not done.
• There is a great focus on acceptance and unit
  testing, but organizations mostly step back when
  comes to the practical testing system.
• The poor testing environment is also a reason
  that a company is not able to deliver excellent
  solutions.
• In this post, we will discuss the disadvantages
  of missing out on a good environment.

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• Why there is a lack of Good Testing Environments?
• Organizations face many competing factors when it
  comes to software development and deployment.
  There are problems pertaining to building the
  right thing and creating a stable solution that
  is liked by the customer.
• In every organization, the main goal is to keep a
  balance in the cost of development and the cost
  of operations. The cost is also a daunting factor
  when you have to achieve two goals.
• Furthermore, the maintenance and creation of each
  environment is a time-consuming and complicated
  activity. Also, coordinating multiple
  environments has double the effect on cost.
  Employees also suffer from distraction and
  fatigue.
• When the complexity level increases, it becomes
  hard to be consistent in the project. On the
  whole, all of these factors lead to expanding of
  cost by rework and waste.
• As we know the problem, lets ascertain how to
  deal with it.

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• New Approach for Test Environment
• Traditionally we used one or more test
  environments. Our test data management is a
  smaller part of our production.
• This might not contain the same volume of data,
  the network traffic may not be the same. The
  servers might not have the same amount of RAM and
  same number of cores.
• This is not the most efficient way of testing the
  system as a whole but there are reasons that you
  use this system.

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• The modern way of doing things is to design a
  production environment and run the test. Thus,
  it can be done by automating the infrastructure
  to the degree where we can generate a complete
  environment with a simple click and execute our
  test series.
• We must build a test environment by keeping a
  specific model in mind. There are many issues
  which we have to deal with for achieving a goal.
• What is Needed for Better Testing Environments?

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• First, it is important that you accurately lay
  out what tools are needed and how they will be
  utilized. Having a solid framework to begin will
  be helpful later on.
• Identify the inclinations you are looking for in
  settling up an environment. Ensure that you have
  efficient tools to manage the environment. Its
  easier to build things into the system in the
  first place.
• You will not get the result in the first place,
  so dont be overly speculative or ambitious.
  Converge on what you know to be true about the
  final state and make efforts to achieve that.
• There are several tools accessible to assist
  every phase of managing the environment.
• Primarily cloud providers entirely provide
  working APIs for every part of the configuration,
  deployment, and allocation. More than APIs there
  are often whole CLIs and SDKs to make using them
  easier.
• Also, there are third-party tools that make the
  efficient use of those SDKs almost transparent.

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• There are many components of the testing
  environment. They are as follows
• Testability
• Modern software is all tested. The software
  mechanism has been changing for years. The
  tremendous focus is given on testability. The
  debate always remains about what is the most
  effective means of testing.
• Building a system infrastructure that promotes
  testability is necessary for modern delivery. The
  test environment must be testable. Validation of
  the environment is also a critical feature of the
  solution.

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• Configuration Management
• For automated releases, we must have good
  configuration management. The process must be
  straightforward for identifying the codes and
  configuration method to build process. By doing
  this all the environments processing further will
  be consistent.

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• Release Management
• An IT test environment management needs release
  management to carry on several tasks. We need to
  know what fixes and features are required in a
  release, to understand what method can be used in
  testing. This helps us to integrate our change
  management system, release process and source
  control tools.

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• Networks
• Network configuration is a major concern to be
  addressed. The deployed environment is needed to
  function with a small amount of customization.
  The deployment is to test the environment and
  that does not mean that we must reconfigure every
  service. Toolings like Kubernetes, virtual
  networks and docker-compose can reduce these
  customizations.
• Failure to design the test environment puts the
  organization at great risk and can also be
  costly. For creating test environments with a
  reasonable amount of consistency, it is important
  to manage them. Thus, test environment management
  is an essential component of any environment.

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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.
• Phone(s) 61 2 8916 6391
• Fax [phone]
• Website - https//www.enov8.com

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