Visual Studio Lab Management

Abstract

Most projects today want short cycles and transparent development processes that allow for changing the plan after every cycle. This typically means that in two to four weeks a set of features need to go from developers to testers to stakeholders and perhaps even customers. To support this we need lots of different test environments to validate the development work. There is also a lot of work to keep the environment ready for test, which includes not only making sure the right version of the product is there but includes test data and dependent services as well. If we want to succeed with agile projects we must make sure to manage this complexity well. Unfortunately, it is often far from a simple process to implement in a project though.