Here's a brand new article in Virtualization Journal: Employing Virtual Environments for Manual Testers from one of our expert architects, Andy Nguyen.
Here at iTKO, we evangelize virtualizing and automating the entire software development lifecycle. While manual testing is a topic we don't cover as often - Virtualization of Manual Testing labs is a really cool thing that can add a lot of value in any large IT organization. For every development and test automation expert in an enterprise, there can be a whole team of on-site, partner, outsourced and seasonal testers sitting idle - waiting for access to a valid, configured test environment to run their scenarios against.
This article contained a cartoon - you might remember our distant history when we advertised the claim that "Your Testing Sucks" - and nobody ever disagreed with us. So here's the comic by Sal Monella:
Service Virtualization is the best way to solve the above constraint for Larry Lamprey, not buying more hardware or conducting laborious, expensive custom setups of a multi-tier environment behind the UI for testers.
Manual testing is never going to disappear, as someone will always be expected to test application UIs for user experience, etc. However, to eliminate downtime from testing, and conflicts over limited available test environments, ALL testers can use a Virtual Service Environment (VSE) to stay productive. Virtualization of those setups and data scenarios also delivers a huge productivity boost.
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