Development and Test Automation
CIOs are under constant pressure to shorten the cycle for enterprise application development and deployment. While delivering quality software on time and on budget has never been easy, the task is further complicated by modern multi-tier architectures and multiple versions of operating systems, browsers, and firewalls. Some of the issues that stand in the way of software development include:
CIOs are under constant pressure to shorten the cycle for enterprise application development and deployment. While delivering quality software on time and on budget has never been easy, the task is further complicated by modern multi-tier architectures and multiple versions of operating systems, browsers, and firewalls. Some of the issues that stand in the way of software development include:
- Contention for limited hardware resources
- Mismatched development and production environments
- Inadequate staging that makes it riskier to deploy new applications
- Communication issues in distributed development teams
- Partition a single physical platform into dozens of isolated development environments
- Copy exact multi-module production environment into virtual machines for testing
- Share complete environments among different teams
- Eliminate repetitive configuration tasks from development and testing cycles
- Automate many testing sequences that previously required manual intervention
- Simulate complex networked applications on a single physical platform
