5 Ways to Ensure Successful Test Environment Management

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• Testing and quality assurance are the most
  important parts of today's technology-driven
  processes.
• Most of the IT organizations work hard to
  achieve the best IT testing facilities on their
  premises.
• Quality assurance practices help organizations to
  a great extent.
• A highly functional, glitch-free software
  application can build your reputation and win
  more clients.
• On the other hand, applications with flaws and
  poor functionalities might ruin your reputation.
• This is the core reason why IT environment
  management is a must for any organization. As we
  all know- software testing is a tricky and
  challenging process as it is dependent on many
  factors including assumptions, constraints,
  dependencies and critical success factors.
• All these factors ensure the success of any test
  result. You need to have the best and highly
  flexible and effective test environment that is
  near to real-life conditions.
• You need to plan, execute and manage a test
  environment to get success.
• In this article, we will discuss 5 ways to ensure
  successful test environment management. Stay
  tuned!

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• Knowledge management and demand awareness
• The first and foremost thing to do before you
  start the planning process is to understand the
  requirements perfectly.
• When you have clear expectations in the mind, you
  will be able to achieve results that are close to
  the best.
• When you create an IT environment management
  strategy based on the custom needs of the
  consumers, you will be able to deliver a product
  that serves the core purpose.
• Even testers would find it great to test the
  product when they understand the requirements
  thoroughly.
• Keeping a knowledge repository is a great thing
  to start. It will help the successors to
  comprehend things easily and they would be able
  to update the test environments easily and
  effortlessly.

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• Planning and coordination
• Having a planned approach is very important when
  it comes to successful IT test management.
• There might not be enough resources for testers
  and developers and hence, the test environment
  manager must plan, coordinate and communicate the
  schedules in advance for both the teams.
• A manager is also responsible for leveraging
  calendars and runbooks to streamline testing
  activities amongst the teams and to avoid any
  conflicts and delays in a product release.
• A manager also needs to train testers about using
  test environment management tools to speed up the
  testing process.
• Standardize and automate
• Keep in the mind the needs of consumers and
  define standards based on them to analyze the
  validity of the tests performed.
• Once standards are defined perfectly, it is the
  time to automate various processes of build,
  deployment and shakedown.
• It will save you valuable time and also mitigate
  manual errors. Test environment management tools
  can help you to automate CI/CD, workload
  automation and configuration management.

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• Mask your test data
• Cybercriminals are becoming smarter with each
  passing day and the number of security breaches
  is increasing too.
• You need to mask your data and refrain from using
  real user information.
• You can go for service virtualization, ETL
  automation and data fabrication to comply with
  the PII standards.
• Infrastructure-as-code (IaC)
• Infrastructure-as-Code has some superior
  benefits.
• It does not just aid unsupervised provisioning,
  the configuration of the operations environment,
  it also allows organizations to automate
  configuration changes, version control, writing
  scripts and network connectivity.
• Conclusion
• If you want to ensure successful test environment
  management, you need to have the utmost
  transparency in the comprehensive testing
  processes.
• Understand the purposes, plan thoroughly and
  ensure proper allocation of resources and
  flawless communication among teams to achieve the
  best IT test environment management.

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