How to Achieve Efficient and Consistent IT Test Environments?

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How to achieve efficient and
consistent IT test environments?

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• A comprehensive software release cannot complete
  without testing to ensure quality.
• No matter how big the QA team you have with
  skilled and dedicated professionals, software
  testing highly depends on the quality of the IT
  environments that are used.
• This is the reason why IT environment management
  is one of the critical functions to assure the
  quality of product releases.
• When you are having issues with the releases and
  changes, you need to take some actions to ensure
  that your business reputation does not harm.
• Issues with your product environment, major
  incidents causing release issues, defects
  identified late on in the delivery cycle are some
  of the failures that must be addressed to release
  a better and flawless version of the product.
• Such issues also invite monetary losses, not to
  forget your reputation.

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• Challenges with IT environments
• Environmental issues are annoying as they waste
  the time of the testers who are hired for other
  decisive tasks. For example, when there are bad
  and unstable IT environments, testers would be
  occupied with troubleshooting or fixing issues
  with the environments.
• If you are looking for a flawless and
  highly-functional software testing process, you
  need to address the issues of the IT environments
  by managing them accurately.
• In most of the organizations, test environments
  are managed by human resources from development
  and production support teams.
• However, when the dedicated roles are not defined
  clearly, there will be a lack of accountability
  and ownership, which will result in chaos as
  there is no definite strategy to configure,
  manage and maintain IT testing environments.
• If such issues are common in your organization,
  you need a predefined, proactive and highly
  efficient IT environment management strategy.

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• How to achieve a reliable and consistent IT test
  environment?
• When you have identified the necessity to develop
  test environments that are reliable, consistent
  and which have all the interfaces and components
  to build and run the applications.
• You can achieve such end-to-end testing
  environments in many ways
• Ensure that all active environments are using the
  same system and software components to achieve
  consistency with the production environment. This
  is the first and foremost rule.
• Measure, identify and communicate all the
  variations which are affecting the consistency
  across all environments. The version control of
  components such as servers, workstations and
  configurations must be maintained.
• After every deployment and release, go for
  technical testing of all applications for better
  environment stability and all the changes and
  updates must be documented perfectly.

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• There are some most exceptional and highly
  efficient IT environment management tools/9
  available in the market which can make things
  easy for developers and testers while maintaining
  consistency across all the environments.
• Develop automated deployment activities by the
  elimination of any manual activities to reduce
  errors and mitigate risks.
• A dedicated team of IT test environment
  management is the need of the hour. Either hire
  an in-house team or you can outsource the job to
  a proficient firm.
• It will unquestionably ensure that all the test
  environments are running faultlessly and the team
  will be responsible for providing a validated,
  stable and usable IT test environment for the
  better testing and releases.
• Conclusion
• The importance of the consistent IT test
  environments in the organization must be taken
  into account and proper proactive steps must be
  taken to achieve reliable, secure and consistent
  testing environments. IT environment management
  is very crucial for smooth and error-free
  releases. Take all the steps necessary to achieve
  this goal and enjoy strong business relationships
  with your clients.

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  New South Wales,
• Australia
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