Overview
Organizations are under increasing pressure to drive efficiencies and optimize their IT processes to achieve more with less. Business applications are becoming more dynamic, distributed and component-based. This is due to demands for applications that are easier to use, more flexible and more connected to real-time data. Consequently, testing and delivery of these applications are rising in importance and criticality.
Cloud test platforms have emerged to provide new levels of cost, time and resource reduction, life cycle improvements and faster time to market. Cloud test platforms help to optimize the software test and delivery life cycle for greater quality and agility in an environment of constant change. IBM Testing Services for Cloud helps you create a more productive, agile and dynamic test environment by assessing your opportunities and providing a strategic road map and supporting business case for a test cloud solution.
Business challenges
Many organizations are confined to the old way of testing applications – with manual processes and multiple test environments – and they cannot keep up with the testing requirements of complex, distributed, multitier application environments.
Issues inherent with today's testing practices include:
- Finding available skills to test new applications
- Wrongly configured test environments leading to a high percentage of defects
- Long testing schedules that delay new application deployments
- Large capital and operating expenses
Cloud computing is an emerging style of IT delivery in which applications, data and resources are rapidly provisioned, and provided as standardized offerings to users over the Web in a flexible pricing model. But how do you know a cloud test solution will address your specific challenges?
IBM Testing Services for Cloud
IBM Testing Services for Cloud provides a comprehensive understanding of the business value of a cloud test solution through a strategic road map and business case that identifies high-priority, cost-reduction opportunities associated with software test practices, defect prevention and application virtualization. The following four assessments can be used alone, or in conjunction, depending on complexity:
- Defect Analysis Starter (DAS): The IBM® Defect Analysis Starter™ is a proprietary, patented assessment that identifies high priority cost reduction opportunities in the application development process including code, data and environment defects. Detailed recommendations are provided to reduce defect injection and support early defect detection.
- DAS for the Environment: The IBM Defect Analysis Starter for the Environment provides a detailed analysis of the environmental defects associated with the test environment and identifies specific opportunities for automated provisioning of the test environment.
- Server Consolidation and System Virtualization Assessment: IBM's Server Consolidation and System Virtualization Assessment identifies specific opportunities for server consolidation and system virtualization. It determines initial requirements for automated provisioning and builds a business case through in-depth analysis of your current environment.
- Business Value Assessment for Application Virtualization: The Business Value Assessment helps assess opportunities for application virtualization by identifying opportunities where intelligent models can be deployed to alleviate infrastructure constraints and accelerate schedules.
Why IBM
Begin your transformation to a more productive, agile environment through advanced virtualization, rapid provisioning, elastic scaling and flexible pricing with IBM Testing Services for Cloud. Once you decide to move to a cloud-based environment, IBM can help you build or manage your cloud test environment and align your investments to your organization's IT and business strategies.
Representing an unambiguous commitment to cloud computing, IBM has an extensive network of fully equipped labs – one of the largest in the IT industry – that are strategically located in both major markets and growth markets, including Ireland, Vietnam, China, South Africa, Japan, Brazil, India and Korea.
As one of the largest providers of consulting, systems integration and application services, IBM has unrivalled experience optimizing application investments and aligning them to business requirements. IBM Application Services' industry expertise, world-renowned research capabilities, and global footprint can help increase productivity, accelerate implementation cycles and empower growth for companies and organizations around the world.
