Major Loopholes in Traditional Test Enviornment Managment

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Major Loopholes In Traditional Test Environment
Management
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There is rapid adoption of DevOps requirement
delivery and shift, impacting into higher levels
of test automation. Because of this, QA teams
invest their maximum time and effort in assuring
their tests are automated to complete the testing
cycle. The correct test automation can allow the
teams to increase their coverage and test speed.
The test automation pyramid approach is used by
agile teams in order to navigate the process.
This automation method focuses on automating at
three different levels that are, service, unit
and user interface. Unit testing is the base for
pyramid approach which is a crucial part of the
test environment management tool. As the team
will run more tests at the lower level, teams
would be able to get the feedback faster, this
way they can develop a solid testing base to work
upon. The central layer of API test functions
under the UI of an application. Eventually, the
top of the pyramid serves end-to-end UI
tests. For implementing the test pyramid
approach, teams work hard, devoting more time and
energy for the right IT environment management
tools. The teams use JUnit or NUnit for unit
level testing. Concerning to API testing, the
teams prefer SoapUI while for UI testing the
teams are likely to use open source tools like
Selenium.
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It is to be considered that the DevOps chain can
only be strong during its weakest link. When the
test infrastructure is managed manually there are
chances that the test automation efforts fail.
For example, teams spend a large portion of their
testing cycles in ensuring the right testing
environment without having any full-fledged
strategy. Even when the environments are
available, there are high differences in
production environments and test
environments. Traditional Tactics For Handling
Test Environments There are the three most common
tactics used by the teams for handling test
environments. One of them is local machines. The
second one is a machine like Amazon EC2. Lastly,
the team does test environments by leveraging
device labs which consist of owned or rented
mobile devices.
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The team needs to work manually in order to
maintain and enhance the environment when new
operating systems, browsers, devices or
resolutions are introduced. In spite of the
manual efforts, there are various challenges like
reduced speed, errors,and redundancy.
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Speed is a Major Concern Environments in the
local machines as a part of testing can slow down
the entire process. QA teams work on UI test on
virtual machines to reduce the hardware cost, but
there is still a manual element which is included
for right configurations. Shaping up some new VMs
with new configurations is time-consuming and
costly at the same time.
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Common Execution is Not at All Easy To run tests
parallel in various OS combinations and browsers
can increase the coverage, along with that it is
also useful in speeding up the testing process.
However, it looks easy but the functioning UI
tests with traditional test environment is a
meticulous process. In order to run the UI test
into different devices, the teams must set up a
hub with multiple node devices. Moreover, by
adding an IPad or Android device as a node needs
more steps to follow.
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Increase in Expenses Fixing local environments
by using device labs, VMs results in to cost
overburden. The major cost can be distributed in
three ways labor cost, license cost, and device
cost. The expenses which are associated with the
device comes under device costs like resolutions,
browser versions and right configurations. Labor
cost consists of cost which DBA teams utilize on
database labs and servers. Licensing of
additional software can also be expensive.
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There are many methods to overcome the problems
of traditional test environment management. The
test environment must be easy to install, easy to
be shared and on top of that, it must be easy to
reinstall, reconfigure or spin down. By owning
cloud-based test environments, you can reduce
scalability and maintain cost by using a virtual
machine, local machine or an in-house testing lab.
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