voke Market Mover Blog

In my last post I asked for your opinions on virtual and cloud-based labs.   Thank you so much for letting us know what you think of virtual and cloud-based labs! On August 21, 2014 voke officially published its Market Snapshot TM Report: Virtual and Cloud-based Labs. The full report is available here  or at www.vokeinc.com to subscribers. While virtual and cloud-based lab technology has been widely available since 2005, we still see development and test teams wait for protracted periods of time to gain access to the physical environments needed. From our research, we now know that on average, teams wait for 18 days to gain access to the required physical environments needed for development or testing. And, these teams that wait to access physical environments also have restrictions on environment access time. This type of lost productivity is easily remedied with virtual or cloud-based labs. The full report contains an abundance of data to help ma...

One of the most frustrating hurdles to overcome in the software lifecycle is the availability of a lab for testing. Physical test labs are expensive to build and expensive to maintain. To use a physical test lab, teams must schedule time well in advance, wait for access, and hurry up and get out of the lab for the next team. There has to be a better way of testing in a production-like environment. Well, there is. Virtualization helped us solve this problem. By using a virtual lab or a dev/test cloud, testing teams have an environment as close to production for use at any time for as long as needed. These virtual labs or dev/test clouds remove provisioning bottlenecks associated with physical labs, give testers an affordable production-like environment, and eliminate the phrase “it works on my machine”. Yes, virtual labs or dev/test clouds bring about peace between developers and testers. With virtual labs or dev/test clouds, developers are able to easily re-create a defect ...