A testing environment is a setup of software and hardware, in which the testing team tests a new software build. A test environment consists of preproduction or staging environments, and is generally a downgraded version of a production environment to help uncover preproduction defects.
Building and maintaining a test environment are important. Often, dedicated test environments are maintained at various stages like developer test, dedicated test, integration test, and preproduction or business readiness test. Take a look at the following diagram:
In the rapidly changing business world, an IT organization has to align the IT strategy to business strategy and bring agility into the IT delivery. It is increasingly difficult to manage complex IT infrastructure dependencies and manual intervention becomes unavoidable. Time and again, organizations consider the management of non-production environments as a secondary priority. This leads to unorganized...