Test environment is very essential for testing
any product because a tester can easily play with the application whatever he
/she want to test without afraid to post any content on test server. Customer
and quality/testing team of the vendor both are profited by getting the separate
or individual environment for testing the application/product.
There are some important key factors which we
need to follow for building an effective test environment for testing.
Test environment management is the procedure
through which test machines (clients, servers, or both) are managed and this can
be explained by the below given diagram.
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Test Manager is responsible to get the test environment on time before starting
of testing in every release. He or She has to co-ordinates with different teams
for updating the test environment in every release cycle before the execution
started.
Let us understand some important key factors
for building the test environment are as follows:
- First you must understand the environment
detail clearly in which customer is going to run the software or
application. It is required to verify not only for the server but also for
user's machine.
Environment factors can be related to hardware, software, operating system
required, database, web browsers, front end tools etc.
Taking care of all available operating system's versions and browser's on
the client's machines to run the application.
- Prepare the test environment dedicated
for testing purpose on a separate server and that should be free from
development
- It must be a replica of customer's
environment as much as possible for testing the application. This is
applicable for both Server and client machines.
- Testing team should understand the
Functional /Non-Functional/Business specifications of the customer for
preparing different test scenarios for the testing of a particular
application. Test Manager defines the scope of testing in every test plan at
the time of a new release. Test Cases must have more coverage as per
customer specifications.
- Tester's needs to document each and every
test performed for particular module during integration testing of product
in every release.
This will help you to understand the basic key
factors for building the effective test environment for testing.