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Best Practices for Test Management

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The importance of testing in IT industry is increasing day by day with much new technologies and software coming into the market. An equal importance is being given today to both the development and the testing of the software. A proper test environment management must be maintained so that the testing of the software can result in zero bugs. Test Environment Management means managing and controlling the whole testing environment in order to conduct error-free testing. It includes the management of multiple components like hardware, software, databases, applications etc. There are some practices used by the IT companies to manage the test environment perfectly. These practices are as follows: Start the testing activities asap The big mistake done by the IT companies is that they start the testing activities after the whole product code is written and the software development is almost complete. The testing activities must start early in the software development life

Top Tools for IT Environment Management

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IT environment management tools are the new necessity for the IT companies in order to monitor their devices and systems in the most effective manner possible and to take immediate action when the tool reports any critical problem. These automated tools monitor the devices set up in the company environment as well as the infrastructure deployed on the cloud and eventually reduce the need for human labor to perform the same task. These tools are able to monitor different devices such as data centers, servers, hardware, and applications as well and are able to report to the administrator when any problem arises. There are many hybrid tools available in the market having different kind of features and limitations.  Let's have a look at the list of top tools available in the market: Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM) SCOM is a monitoring and reporting tool that is used to check the status of different devices such as servers, operating systems, hard