Virtualized Build and Test Automation

The integration of ElectricCommander with VMware Lab Manager allows development organizations to easily deploy virtual lab configurations across multiple operating systems and automatically run the build, test and deploy processes that were previously manual, disconnected, and resource-intensive. Using the two products together, software developers can easily go from running a pre-flight build and functional test to kicking off the entire software production process across multiple platforms on the same hardware.

Lab Manager and ElectricCommander together create a "self-service" virtual lab that transforms the build-test-deploy process from scripts written by experts to buttons pushed by end users. This solution:

		Dramatically reduces server sprawl through consolidation
		Reduces the effort required to configure and run software production environments
		Improves quality through early, frequent testing on all target environments and configurations
		Reduces the development team's dependence on IT operations.

Challenge				Impact				Electric Cloud Solution
Maintaining a SPM infrastructure that is costly and underutilized				Organizations losing money by purchasing and maintaining underutilized hardware				When used in conjunction with Virtual Lab Management systems, ElectricCommander can dynamically provision either physical or virtual resources without manual intervention from IT operations
Time-consuming and labor-intensive for IT to provision development with all required environments				Developers either can't validate on all target environments prior to integration builds, or they must wait for IT operations to provide new configurations				Allows end-users to easily configure, run and re-use processes and scripts the same way they configure, run and re-use virtual machines
SPM processes and tools not automated or optimized for virtual lab environment				Development teams cannot take full advantage of flexible, self-service virtualized environment				Unified process automation across the entire build/test/deploy lifecycle and across both physical and virtual machines
Difficult to reproduce environments after the fact				Difficult to effectively diagnose problems				Virtual build or test environments that can be versioned and recreated for troubleshooting or auditing

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