Operational validation refers to the process of validating and verifying that the environments are not only provisioned and configured in the desired state but also are operational and running as intended. Although unit tests are performed on environments such as development, testing, and preproduction, operational validation can be executed against the production environment. However, this does not mean that operational validation cannot be executed against development, test, or any other environment. It can be executed against any environment.
Another important point to remember about operational validation is that it should not modify the environment while executing the tests. If it needs to perform any action that would eventually modify the environment, the tests should proactively create additional resources and use them. After completion of the tests, these temporary resources should be teared down.
Operational validation is a must have tool that should...