A Brief Overview of Test Environment Management Tools

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A Brief Overview of Test
Environment Management Tools

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In this application-driven world that we live in,
every company can be considered as a software
company, whether it knows it yet or not. Every
other company in the software industry is
releasing new applications on a regular basis.
This made the software delivery life cycles were
complex. Due to this reason, large organisations
need hundreds and sometimes thousands of test
environments to scrutinise the number of
applications being supported. It has become
quite taxing to manage everything
together. According to a recent survey conducted
by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), titled
the EMA 2018 Test Environment Management Survey,
despite all the benefits that the test
environment management tool can provide to
businesses across the industries, only 4 of
large enterprises have fully integrated TEM
processes in the DNA of their application
development.
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• Everyone knows that TEM tools enhance the speed
  and also result in the efficiency enhancement, so
  the question is Why are there not many
  businesses who are integrating it effectively or
  even using it at all?
• Lets, first of all, understand the objectives of
  a TEM tool.
• According to the research, it was observed that
  in the teams surveyed, quite a few were working
  with more 600 environments, while 21 of the
  respondents were not aware of the total number of
  test environments they were working on.
• From a management perspective, this scenario is
  even worse than having too many test environments
  to manage. If you are unaware of how many are
  there, to begin with, there is bound to be a big
  problem.
• With the help of a TEM tool, it is possible to
  deal with these challenges. You get the smooth
  testing procedure that can go a long way in
  enhancing the application quality being
  developed.

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With the help of IT environment
management tools, it is possible to get rid of
the much lengthy scheduling and monitoring
processes that would have otherwise required to
be performed on a manual basis. It also helps
companies to reuse and recycle test environments
in a much better way. This assists in reducing
the extra environments to be created.
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As per the same survey, organisations today are
looking for test environments than ever before.
For this reason, they are renewing, improving and
developing more applications than ever before.
However, 23 of the respondents admitted that
they had not used any commercial tool ever. In
simple words, roughly one-fourth of those
managing intricate testing schedules do that
without operational hindsight. This can work for
small number of test environments. However,
when it comes to testing a large number, over
time, it can be a bit challenging. Thanks to
the TEM tool, IT decision-makers can easily
overcome the dearth of overall inefficiency,
management difficulty and visibility. Up until
this stage, the entire concentration has been on
automating the development cycle without
unquestionably contemplating the best ways to
find out the waste and defects. These are some
of the reasons due to which TEM has been on a low
priority list.
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• As time goes, the execution of testing
  environments will only increase. Hence,
  businesses need to put in optimum solutions now
  to assist them to cope up with the challenges for
  the near future.
• Irrespective of the number of production
  releases, the return on TEM investment is bound
  to happen immediately. In case these savings are
  considered as cost avoidance, ROI can be achieved
  in a couple of times.
• Although the exact figure of savings and ROI will
  differ based on the type of business, one thing
  is assured that once these tools are executed,
  the business will commence seeing the positive
  financial results almost immediately. It will
  even have a positive impact on the testing
  process.
• Thanks to the ever-increasing number of testing
  environments, businesses need to invest in the
  best management tools to release their version
  swiftly and of higher quality. The reason being,
  customers expectations are also increasing.

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• Australia
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