Cloud Development and Test Solution

The Challenge

Virtual lab automation promises quantifiable benefits for application development and quality assurance (QA) organizations: faster lab deployment, more time to spend on test planning and execution, and easier reproduction of defects.

However, many IT labs only support basic virtualization and, as a result, application development teams experience slow response times and lab provisioning delays. Investing in sufficient hardware, implementing lab management software, building a virtual image library, and assigning administrative resources can be too costly for many IT organizations to justify.

The Skytap Solution

Skytap gives organizations immediate access to a full virtual lab solution over the Web. Development and QA teams can scale up and down lab resources as needed from Skytap's pool of virtualized infrastructure, gain immediate access to a full featured virtual lab manager application, better collaborate across globally distributed teams using shared virtual infrastructure and utilize Skytap’s library of pre-built virtual machine, OS, and application images. Existing virtual machines, builds, test scripts and ISOs can also be easily uploaded into the Skytap environment.

Skytap Virtual Lab includes the ability to configure complex multi-machine environments, set-up and tear down lab environments, and snapshot bugs at the time of detection for easy replication. Machines deployed in the lab can be accessed through a Web-based or client console and Skytap's rich API and VPN gateway enables integration to existing in-house development environments and tools.

Skytap can be used for a broad range of testing scenarios, including:

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

Download the white paper on 'Virtual Lab Automation: How to Build a Truly Virtual QA Lab' to learn more.