Surgient Virtual QA/Test Lab Management System

A major challenge for enterprise organizations is the time and cost associated with provisioning configurations against which software testing is performed. In fact, the time spent provisioning can easily consume up to 50% of the total test cycle.

The problem? The amount of infrastructure required to support diverse testing needs, and the manual processes IT performs to provision test configurations, simply can’t keep pace with the growing complexity and rate-of-change of today’s enterprise software.

While automated software quality (ASQ) tools have greatly increased the effectiveness of test management and execution, little has been done to automate the provisioning of the configurations against which manual and automated testing is performed. That is until now.

Surgient Virtual QA/Test Lab Management System (VQMS) is an enterprise application that dramatically accelerates test cycles by consolidating pre-production infrastructure and automating the setup and teardown of complex test configurations on-demand.

With Surgient, you can effectively implement and manage an enterprise test lab that:

• Lowers the cost of provisioning and supporting test environments by 50% or more
• Consolidates test infrastructure and increases utilization saving time and money
• Shortens test cycles by fully automating the provisioning of test configurations
• Increases quality with more consistent and comprehensive test matrix coverage
• Boosts agility by aligning resource use with development and test priorities
• Integrates with HP Quality Center to optimize manual and automated testing processes

HP Quality Center and Surgient VQMS Integration Highlights

• Complete test lab management complements investments in test management and enables faster test cycles and more complete functional and regression testing of critical software
• Leverages industry-standard virtual infrastructure, including VMware GSX / ESX and Microsoft Virtual Server 2005
• Provides scheduled or on-demand access to required test lab configurations and provides automated access control and secure remote access capabilities for distributed test teams
• Enables multiple configurations to be tested in parallel on limited hardware and greatly accelerates test cycles
• Provides in-depth information on lab usage, access, and configurations through reports