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Major Loopholes in Traditional Test Enviornment Managment

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 and test environment management tool.

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Major Loopholes in Traditional Test Enviornment Managment

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  1. Major Loopholes In Traditional Test Environment Management

  2. 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 rightIT 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. Contact Us Company Name : ​ Enov8 Contact Person : ​ Ashley Hosking Address : ​ Level 5, 14 Martin Place, Sydney, 2000, New South Wales, Australia. Phone(s) : ​ ​ +61 8916 6391 Website :- ​ ​ ​ https://www.enov8.com

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