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Dataops was conceptualized to overcome challenges faced by IT companies across the globe in terms of data procurement to storage to deriving insights to the transaction to efficient data management processes. Since earlier days, data management has been challenging for companies and Dataops is the finest solution that can overcome these challenges and offer superior, fast, and efficient processes. Here, you need to understand the difference between Dataops and DevOps. DevOps helps companies to quicken software release cycles and improve the quality of the software product by using large scale automation. On the other hand, Dataops helps companies to improve agility in the organization by amalgamating various processes and practices and automating various processes, especially to boost agility in terms of data insights. Dataops augments the speed and quality of existing data and gives companies data insights to take data-centric decisions that help them to grow. Data Challenges and how...

  The cut-throat competition in the software industry is challenging, especially for small businesses that are making their marks. In addition to that, the industry is evolving with each passing day and to stay afloat, companies need to come up with different strategies and amendments to their existing strategies. However, having a proper testing strategy is one of the core things that companies need to focus on. One of the most vital components of a testing strategy is to test data management . That’s what we are going to discuss today. Also called TDM, test data management decides the quality of your software once it is deployed. Users must be able to accomplish their business objectives with the software they bought without any hurdles and hindrances. Errors, functionality, and operational issues in the software product might frustrate users and it might ruin your brand's reputation as well. What Is Test Data Management? First of all, let’s understand what test data management i...

  Testing and quality assurance are the most important parts of today's technology-driven processes. Most IT organizations work hard to achieve the best IT testing facilities on their premises. Quality assurance practices help organizations to a great extent. A highly functional, glitch-free software application can build your reputation and win more clients. On the other hand, applications with flaws and poor functionalities might ruin your reputation. This is the core reason why IT environment management is a must for any organization. As we all know- software testing is a tricky and challenging process as it is dependent on many factors including assumptions, constraints, dependencies, and critical success factors. All these factors ensure the success of any test result. You need to have the best and highly flexible and effective test environment that is near to real-life conditions. You need to plan, execute, and manage a test environment to get success. In this article, we w...

  We all have heard about agile framework and DevOps which are trading for many years. They have been part of the software development life cycle for years. However, with the digitalization where the security of software product has become a major concern across industries, organizations are now finding it crucial to tying in agile and DevOps processes with security procedures. A new term called DevSecOps came into limelight in recent years that can make this happen. In this post, we will discuss what DevSecOps is and how it can be practised. Agile and DevOps software delivery Agile is a collaboration based approach which has ruled for years in the software industry. It was designed to break down the walls between development and operations to deliver high-quality software products in the market. When we want to offer the best quality software product, we need to consider security. For years, developers gave more emphasis on offering products faster, ignoring the security side of ...

  The IT test environment is not a new word, at least for IT organizations as the word has proved its significance in many ways by offering some unmatched benefits to the organizations. IT test environment management is a comprehensive process with various phases such as risk analysis, test planning, resource allocation, test monitoring & control, issue management, test report, test execution and others. However, when we evaluate something, we have to do it 360 degrees and IT environment management has its share of challenges too. Some of the challenges are lack of time, lack of resources, and absence of personnel and ambiguity of test results. If you want to create the best IT environment management process in your organization, you need to see face to face these challenges and address each one of the first. In this post, we will discuss some of the best practices for the IT test environment. Keep reading! Start testing activities in the SDLC itself for better results When we...

Many companies in the IT sectors are always focused on coming up with the innovations of new products every time to fulfill the customer’s demand. However, to make it successful, it always depends on the IT environment management , as it is the only platform where teams can test whether the product is free from any bugs and is good to go.  Having the most reliable and accurate IT environment management will minimize the cost to the company, increase product efficiency, and boost the team co-ordinations. Also, in every software development life cycle (SDLC), this is just unavoidable, as it is the phase where a team molds the products into something premium and acceptable by the customers. So, proper management of the Testing Environment is inevitable and should be taken seriously by any team, every time any projects are initiated. But, managing it could be very hectic and complicated at some point. So, to let you win over this kind of issue we have augmented with 5 important prac...

In the IT organizations, efficient and effective management of non-production environments is very crucial to reap many benefits including cost savings, speedy delivery of products and quickening the responses to different business and IT needs. However, the irony is that not even IT professionals understand the full potential of IT environment management and its role to the success of an IT project in general. If not managed properly, IT test environment issues might delay the delivery of the projects. Thankfully, in recent years, IT organizations are understanding the importance of IT test environments and taking proper steps to have a planned IT test environment management.  Program managers, project managers and test managers come across such IT test environment-related issues sooner or later during the project development life cycle and they witness late deliveries of their projects, facing the wrath of the clients.  What is IT environment management? I...

A comprehensive software release cannot complete without testing to ensure quality. No matter how big the QA team you have with skilled and dedicated professionals, software testing highly depends on the quality of the IT environments that are used. This is the reason why IT environment management is one of the critical functions to assure the quality of product releases.  When you are having issues with the releases and changes, you need to take some actions to ensure that your business reputation does not harm. Issues with your product environment, major incidents causing release issues, defects identified late on in the delivery cycle are some of the failures that must be addressed to release a better and flawless version of the product. Such issues also invite monetary losses, not to forget your reputation.  Challenges with IT environments Environmental issues are annoying as they waste the time of the testers who are hired for other decisive tasks. For ...

In recent years, data compliance is the new buzzword we hear in the digital sphere and for all the right reasons. Businesses collect a huge amount of data from customers from various sources and data compliance is all about using this data responsibly and adhering to different state and local authority data compliance guidelines.  What is data compliance?  Compliance is nothing but a set of rules and regulations that you need to follow to save yourself from any legal troubles. Data compliance is nothing but a set of rules and regulations that companies need to follow to safeguard the data they receive from their customers, employees and other stakeholders. Companies must ensure various security measures to ensure that the data is safe and secure. Different countries have different data compliance rules and regulations, but generally, they cover five most important areas: Audit, Controls, Accreditation Confirmation, Regulatory and Legal Compliance.  Comp...

We all are familiar with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which was implemented from May 25th, 2018. Other countries followed the footsteps of the European Union and came with their own GDPR-like regulations and data compliance became the buzzword across the globe.  The main aim of the GDPR was to impose regulations on how the data collected by the organizations can be used.  However, most of the countries remain noncompliant to GDPR and let me tell you, it is not easy to be a GDPR-compliant organization. For example, in 2019, Google received the $57 million fine for violations of the GDPR clearly shows that even bigger organizations at also struggling to adhere to GDPR compliance regulations.  You will not believe that many non-EU companies have closed their business operations from the EU market. Unfortunately, this is not a long term solution as more countries and states are coming up with GDPR-like regulations and you cannot wi...

To set up a well-designed test environment, it is imperative to have a comprehensive and effective IT test environment management strategy in place. There is no other option left as, without one, you may end up in absolute chaos during the testing phase of a software development life cycle. This will ultimately have a significant impact on the effectiveness and suitability of the test results.  Since the testing approach differs with each code requisite, a standard test environment does not hold true. It is, therefore, imperative that the test environment management is done in such a way that it can easily be customised on the basis of a specific code under scrutiny.  It would help if you also kept this in mind that designing, configuring and setting up a test environment is not an easy feat to achieve as there are lots of variables involved. This makes it essential to have a robust test environment management strategy on top of a skilled test environment manag...

Test environment management deals with the idea of dealing, managing, and controlling the enterprise level test environments. It consists of various types of components, including databases, hardware, software, applications, middleware, and test data. All this can be managed well with the help of procedures, tools, and resources effectively. However, with the ever-increasing number of test environment management tool daily, managing test environments has become more challenging than ever before. There is a clear-cut mandate for businesses that operate multiple slow, inconsistent, and reliable test environments if they keep on doing the same thing they risk incurring higher operational costs and lower test coverage.  Conducting businesses in the middle of unreliable test environments has made organizations vary in their higher operating cost and lower test coverage. Most of the organizations today recognize these challenges. They are working hard to include best pract...