Overview
Cloud computing presents new opportunities to accelerate the business value derived from the software development and test lifecycle. Many organizations are hindered by infrastructure and process complexity, and lack of automation and infrastructure needed to test realistic workloads; excessive cycle times because adequate testing infrastructures can take weeks or months to procure and deploy with insufficient testing resources; and high costs since dedicated IT environments big enough to do infrequent, large-scale testing are often underutilized-if they can be afforded at all. Rather than individually sourcing infrastructure, tools and services, organizations are looking for an integrated approach that leverages cloud computing and improves time-to-market with higher quality applications at a lower cost.
To help organizations realize these imperatives, IBM has developed the Integrated Development and Test Environment solution that can help transform your enterprises’ development and test environment and accelerate business value through a comprehensive, end-to-end approach using cloud delivery models. The Integrated Development and Test Environment brings together automation and services with cloud computing and application virtualization to optimize the application development and test environment.
Development and test opportunities
By extending your own resources and providing capabilities such as application virtualization, IBM enables more robust and complex testing earlier in the development cycle. This lets developers find and fix problems sooner, before they become large and costly to address.
By extending your own resources and providing capabilities such as application virtualization, IBM enables more robust and complex testing earlier in the development cycle. This lets developers find and fix problems sooner, before they become large and costly to address.
- Drive testing earlier in the software delivery life cycle where they are less expensive to correct.
- Decrease cycle time and defects
- Improve resource governance and control
- Reduce infrastructure required to test solutions
- Increase resource flexibility and availability
- Maximize asset utilization
- Increase level of testing based on virtualized capabilities
You can leverage this approach through any one of these offerings:
- IBM Testing Services for Cloud - application virtualization, eliminates critical development and testing constraints by virtualizing IT resources to provide on-demand accessibility and capacity for teams across the entire software life cycle. This is available on the IBM Cloud in the United States, Canada and Europe, or for private cloud environments.
- IBM Testing Services for Cloud - performance testing, provides a highly automated utility-based performance testing solution that delivers predictable, repeatable and rapid results. It leverages unique process accelerators and innovations developed through the collaboration of IBM Software Group, IBM Research and Global Services. This is available on the IBM Cloud in the United States, Canada and Europe, or for private cloud environments.
- Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud® provides enterprise class infrastructure provisioned from the IBM cloud.
- TheIBM® Smart Business Development and Test Cloud® is an enterprise-class infrastructure within a private cloud environment.
- IBM® CloudBurst™ enables a private cloud solution with service management software in a purpose built, fully integrated system.
- IBM® Rational® software delivery services for cloud computing can help you transform software delivery by providing best-of-breed software development and test solutions across multiple platforms-available for private cloud deployments or as part of IBM’s standardized development and test environment on the IBM Cloud.
Why IBM
The value of the integrated development and test environment from IBM is rooted in its innovative approach, which combines cloud delivery with the right services to make testing far more realistic, less costly and easier to accomplish. It lets businesses create test scenarios that go far beyond anything they could practically deploy on their own. IBM provides not only robust and sophisticated real-world testing, but enables it on a scale unheard of using conventional services-and that can make all the difference.
