Virtualization impact in software testing
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The document discusses virtualization infrastructure and virtual appliances, highlighting their benefits such as easy environment administration, agile deployment, and disaster management. It also covers challenges related to hardware limitations and performance testing, alongside mitigation strategies including risk assessment and proper management of virtual machines. The content aims to inform about the technical aspects and considerations necessary for effective software testing in a virtual environment.
Virtualization impact in software testing
- 2. Agenta: Virtualization infrastructure & Virtual Appliances Virtualization technical benefits in software testing Risks and security concerns Mitigation and Testing Approaches
- 3. Virtualization infrastructure: Server or platform virtualization Storage virtualization Network virtualization Virtual Appliances: • A virtual appliance is a virtual machine image designed to run on a virtualization platform (e.g., VirtualBox, Xen, VMware Workstation, Parallels Workstation)
- 4. Virtualization technical benefits Easy environment administration Duplicating / recreating intermittent problems Agile deployment / testing Portability (Moving / Copying VMs) Snap shot Server consolidation Testing of software concurrently Disaster management Many more…
- 5. Virtualization Challenges Hardware Limitation Virtual driver unavailability Hardware network implementation / deployment Hardware watchdog Hardware clock Serial console not available VLAN support / other network related service support Directly export ovf file for Virtual appliance Availability of test automation tools Resource constraints Performance testing Hardware compatibility testing
- 6. Mitigation Assessing Infrastructure Risks Assessing Features Risks Test plans and for Virtual Test requirements Naming convention for VMs Base images granularity analysis Network and its related services identification & address conventions Test data preparation
- 7. Mitigation (cont..) Establish a base library of images Create a Library of ISO files Manage virtual machines as if they were physical machines configure anti-spyware / anti-malware exceptions ◦ *.vhd, *.vud, *.vsv, *.iso Managing Performance Monitoring Approach Getting Virtual edition software Implementing Service Virtualization Assessing Management Risks
- 8. Q&A
- 9. Thank you