Virtual Test Environments

Complete virtual test environments for lower costs and on-demand access

Today's distributed application architectures require test and development teams to have access to many interdependent IT components and systems in order to build a reliable solution. These assets may reside within an organization's data center, shared among business partners, or hosted as a Cloud computing or SaaS-based service. Unfortunately, access and availability to these IT assets can be severely constrained, affecting productivity, time-to-market, quality, and infrastructure costs. Virtual test environments provide a fast and cost effective way to address these needs.

Common test environment challenges include:

• Unavailable or inaccessible IT components and systems to test against
• Dependent components or systems to test have not been built yet
• Significant costs to setup test labs and test harnesses, including hardware, software licenses and configure costs
• Costly usage fees to test against live 3rd party systems
• Poor software quality due to skipped or incomplete testing
• Delays due to unavailable components and deliverables from other development teams
• Extensive test data management time and cost to setup and tear down tests

LISA's virtualization capabilities simulate complete test environments, so that they react and respond very realistically, just as the actual production environment would. Creating complete software-based virtual test environments, not just piecemeal responders or stubs, that are available 24/7 on your terms can provide significant advantages. And LISA's virtual test environments provide a solution for IT assets such as mainframes that have proven resistant to hardware virtualization approaches.

Virtual test environments can be leveraged when live system testing is not possible due to availability constraints or security concerns. In cases where components have not been built yet, virtual environments can rapidly model and simulate the components for testing purposes. LISA Virtualize can be rapidly created and customized, enabling faster parallel development across interdependent teams.

Other benefits include:

• Reduced or eliminated infrastructure costs for test labs, test harnesses, responders and mock-ups, including hardware, software licenses and configuration costs.
• Multiple customized virtual test environments that provide productivity and time-to-market gains by enabling more parallel development across interdependent teams.
• Simplified test data management by automating the time it takes to manually set up and extract test data for target systems

LISA's virtual test environments are delivering impressive benefits in a range of areas for ITKO customers To learn more about how LISA incorporates the 4 C's and can address critical development constraints and software reliability challenges in your organization, please contact us, or read more about LISA Virtualize, LISA Validate, LISA Test, and LISA Pathfinder.