Self-Serve Virtual Machines for Build Management and QA - Automatically Provision and Tear Down Virtual Resources
Thursday, Dec 11, 2008

Description: Some of the most prevalent barriers in the enterprise software development process are the significant time and cost associated with scheduling, setting up, tearing down, and tracking a wide variety of build/test environments. In fact, the time spent provisioning these unique environments can easily consume 50% or more of the build/test cycle.

Users of Rational BuildForge and the new Rational Quality Manager users now have the ability to leverage fully integrated self-serve virtual machines throughout the build/QA cycle via the Surgient Virtual Automation Platform. With both scheduled and on-demand provisioning, automated setup/teardown, and additional reporting tools, QA and IT professionals eliminate tedious administrative tasks and free up more time for focused testing, ultimately resulting in reduced costs and higher quality software. Virtualization for build/QA cycle brings the ability to provision multiple instances of the same environment in order to run multiple builds and tests in parallel.

In this presentation and technology demonstration, you will learn how to easily:

• Locate and deploy virtual build / test resources from within Rational BuildForge and Rational Quality Manager
• Automatically and reliably provision complex, multi-machine build / test configurations
• Maintain an easy-to-navigate, comprehensive library of known-good test configurations and customer/production environments
• Securely request and access environments for build processing and manual or automated testing from a Web browser worldwide (24x7)
• Leverage standard reports, or author custom reports with 3rd-party SQL tools, to accurately measure and track test lab resource use

Speaker:
Mike Andren, Director of Product Management, Surgient

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