Introduction to Environment

Introduction

Release & Verify Environment Management enables you to visualize, book, schedule, and manage any contention of your non-Production environments. It also provides environment maintenance, as well as Change & Configuration Management functions. 

Here, you can add and maintain builds, book environments (TEBR and TECR) and view Environment Schedules, CI/CD Pipeline, and Environment Health Check Dashboard. You can also view a graphical representation of your Environments against Releases using the Impact Matrix feature of the Environment module. It gives you a complete control of your test environment management throughout the enterprise with a consolidated end-to end view of configuration, allocation and bookings.

Challenges of Environment Managers

Test Environment Management, if not properly managed, can be complicated. Environment requests arrive daily from multiple teams with unique needs, the environment configurations have to be perfect. Some of the major challenges faced by Environment Managers are:

• Ineffective use of high-value Environments.
• Lack of end-to-end visibility.
• Inadequate resource allocation and coordination.
• Missing or wrong components.
• Imperfect audit trial.

You can overcome your Test Environment Challenges using Release & Verify's Environment module.

Release & Verify Environment Management Benefits

• The Environment modules enable you to schedule the Environment bookings centrally. With this, the entire team can work from the same source of real-time information. Thus, steer clear of any manual errors.
• The Environment configurations are maintained in a centralized library for you to easy provisioning and schedule. 
• You can run the builds on-demand to expedite code deployment by integrating with Jenkins.
• Easily manage configurations, change requests, and approvals to ensure testing is performed using the correct environments, components, layers, and dependencies.
• Release & Verify provides you with automated tracking and real-time dashboards so that you have full visibility of every test performed, system error, and broken link. Thus, enabling you to ensure quality and minimize the risk.
• Release & Verify provides you a quick view of the application status for each environment to get a full list of applications, their current build versions, dependencies, and key stakeholders.
• You can easily link the Sytems and Releases to the Environments which allows you to track the relationships between them.
• With Release & Verify's easy-to-use tools, you can implement self-service change requests and link these change requests to user stories and test cases.
• You can view an interactive map of integrated environments that shows the system components, configuration details, connections, and protocols. You can visualize the make-up of any environment and dentify application gaps.
• Audit History feature enables you to easily track the change history.