Accelerate Agile Development

If you're part of an agile development team, you understand the importance of removing blocks and eliminating unnecessary work. Too often IT infrastructure causes friction in the development process because it's difficult to provision, can't scale with testing requirements and is difficult to share across teams.

Skytap's cloud automation solution provides a scalable, on-demand cloud platform to keep pace with agile delivery. And because it's a service, you can be up and running with Skytap immediately.

Provision new environments instantly

Skytap gives team members instant, self-service access to dev and test infrastructure over the Web. Creating an environment is as easy as 'point-and-click' from the Skytap Library. Because Skytap is based on open standards, you can deploy your existing applications in the cloud without any code or architectural changes.

Publish prototypes iteratively with users

Skytap enables team members to publish development or test environments over the Web using a Skytap Resource Link (a URL that points to a multi-machine stack in Skytap). It's ideal for publishing prototypes and getting iterative feedback from users.

Enable collaboration across global teams

With the rise of offshore development and testing, it's likely you have team members working in different parts of the world. Skytap offers distributed teams a common development infrastructure to work on and solves the problem of inconsistent test environments causing issues. Skytap also has a rich user access model to enable teams to isolate external contractors in specific work areas.

Resolve defects with powerful configuration snapshots

Skytap has the ability to snapshot a running multi-machine dev or test stack. This essentially solves the 'no-repro' problem where a developer has to painstakingly try to reproduce a bug from a defect report. Instead, a tester can snapshot the defect at the point of failure and include a Skytap Resource Link in the defect report. A developer can then spin up the environment at a later time and debug the issue.

Imagine the possibilities

Skytap can be used for a broad range of development and testing scenarios, including (but not limited to):

• Developer workstations
• Unit testing
• Integration testing
• System Testing
• User Acceptance Testing
• Performance Testing
• Localization Testing

Download the 451 Group analyst report on 'Cloud Automation' to learn more about the benefits for development and test organizations.