How to Plan a Comprehensive IT Test Environment

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How to Plan a
Comprehensive IT Test Environment

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• Many factors might jeopardize the software
  product quality and release but, in most of the
  cases, inefficient and flawed IT test environment
  management is the main reason for late release
  and errors.
• A proper, comprehensive and highly efficient IT
  test environment planning is the need of the hour
  for enterprises and businesses.
• With a thorough test environment planning, you
  can ensure superior and efficient use of
  technology assets and other resources.
• In addition to that, it also helps in enhancing
  quality while reducing operational costs.
• It is the high time businesses start investing
  their time and efforts to manage test
  environments to assure success in quality
  operations and better product releases.

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• What does test environment planning include?
• First of all, you need to manage various
  components efficiently such as hardware,
  software, middleware applications, databases,
  resources, operational procedures and processes,
  test data and other tools. Some of the challenges
  that quality analysts face are
• Not having a team of committed professionals for
  IT test environment management
• A scrappy environment with different activities
  scattered across the team of developers, testers
  and administrators
• No mechanisms of asset tracking and lack of asset
  consolidation of the test environment
• Decentralized software releases due to separate
  ownerships of projects
• Environmental configuration issues
• No use of tools which bring errors in the system
• Lack of documentation that does not allow
  reusability.

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• How to plan for IT test environment management?
• There are many things you need to consider before
  you start making a comprehensive IT test
  environment management plan. If you dont have
  any human resources who have prior experience in
  managing IT test environments, you can hire
  professional help.
• These consultants will leverage their expertise
  and experience to offer the best IT test
  environment management plan for your business
  after evaluating your business needs and product
  nature.

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Strategic Planning and Robust Program Governance
If you want smooth functioning of multiple test
environments, you need to ensure that you have a
strategic approach to it. Some of the key inputs
you can use are Capacity Enhancement First and
foremost, you need to ensure that your test
environment strategy is in line with other
strategies such as IT infrastructure strategy and
enterprise testing strategy. It will help you to
build an end-to-end test environment. Test
Environment Life Cycle You should keep a scope
of the test environment while designing and
building an environment with a balanced approach.
Also, try to keep the infrastructure and
operational costs minimum. Continuous
Improvement You also need to review your plan
from time to time to utilize resources and assets
optimally and to ensure an efficient and
sustainable test environment.
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Better Utilization of Resources You need to
bring all the resources on one page to get the
maximum output from them. Knowledge and
information sharing for reusability and smooth
communication can play a huge role here.
Process Optimization and Standardization You
need to keep optimizing your processes by using
the best practices and by measuring performance
through different metrics. Efficient Test
Environment Management and nDash Manage test
environment efficiently by managing data
processes and procedures, identifying tools for
various analysis, generating and validating data,
data mining, covering and sharing information,
and archiving reusable data. Conclusion There
is no way to achieve best product releases and
efficient test operations if you dont make and
implement an effective IT test environment
management. Design a plan and stick to it
throughout the development and release process to
release an error-free and the best product in the
market.
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  New South Wales,
• Australia
• Email enov8australia_at_gmail.com
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