Press To Test

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Press To Test

• Test Beds When You Need Them
• Bruce Ward Akimbi Systems

before we CAN TEST, we need something TO TEST
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• Agenda
• Test Environments The Perfect Lab
• Physical vs. Virtual Test Environments
• Stages of Test Lab Automation
• Akimbi Slingshot a Virtual Lab Automation
  System
• Q A

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The Perfect Lab

• One of Everything Test Coverage Confidence
• Right Now Minimum Setup Time, Maximum Test Time
• Representative Environment -Test Machine(s) vs.
  Test Beds
• Within Limitations of our Budget, Lab Space, etc.

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Question Show of Hands

• Our Test Systems represent Actual Environments
• Very Well
• Reasonably Well
• Poorly
• Extra Credit How Well do your Test Systems
  cover the Range of Actual Environments (your
  Support Matrix)?

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Question Show of Hands

• We use Virtual Machines in our Test Lab
• Little / none
• A lot
• For just about everything

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Physical vs. Virtual Environments

• One of Everything
• Physical Machines vs. Bytes on a Disk
• Right Now Minimum Setup Time, Maximum Test Time
• Get Hardware, Install OS, Install Apps vs. VM
  Startup
• Representative Environment -Test Machine(s) vs.
  Test Beds
• - Physical Machines(s) vs. Virtualized Machines
• Within Our Budget, Space, etc. Limitations
• - Physical is expensive and resource intensive
  compared to VMs

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Question Show of Hands

• My Test Environments are mostly set up by
• Me
• Others - Operations / IT
• Others - on my Team
• Combination

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• Test Environment / Machine Setup in our Lab is
• A Manual Process
• Somewhat Automated
• Highly Automated

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Stages of Test Lab Automation

• None Every man for himself
• Basic Machine Library, Automated Provisioning
• Simple, Fast Self-Service Access to Test Beds
• Lights-Out Smoke / Regression Testing
• ???

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Akimbi Slingshot - Virtual Lab Automation

• A Virtual Lab Automation System that provides
  self-service provisioning and accelerates
  processes across development, test and QA teams
• Access to a library of configurations that can be
  setup and torn down in a rapid, on demand fashion
• Collaboration between teams of engineers
  enabling them to collaborate and share
  configurations regardless of location
• Maximum hardware utilization for Cost / Space
  Savings and Flexibility

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Akimbi Slingshot

• Demonstration

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Akimbi Systems

• Global Leader in Virtual Lab Automation
• 1 Market Share - Over two dozen Global 2000
  customers across a range of industries
• Founded in 2004 (spin out) technology in full
  production since 2002
• Over 11 million invested capital from tier one
  Silicon Valley venture capitalists and Stanford
  University
• Headquartered in San Mateo, California
• Global Presence
• EMEA and APAC headquarters
• Authorized Distributors and Resellers across Five
  Continents

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Gartner Says

• Big improvement ideas within the IT space are
  very rare, but Virtual Lab Automation is one such
  breakthrough concept. It represents an
  opportunity to achieve high-impact gains in
  software development lifecycle processes and cost
  reduction, and enterprise application development
  organizations should be anxious to use it to
  their benefit.
• Theresa Lanowitz
• Research Director