How much is the test environment, starting from the actual needs

throughout the continuous delivery lifecycle,The ease of use of the test environment directly affects the speed of software delivery,But because of the following two points,It is the most easy to ignore.

1.We always idealize the environment,Ignore the difficulty of its management;

2.We also rarely have a full-time environmental administrator,cause the environment to be in a state of chaos for a long time.

通常,We don't pay attention to the test environment at the beginning of the project,But looking back, the time wasted on environmental issues was staggering:Difficulty in applying for hardware resources,Test environment configuration is cumbersome,Difficulty testing app updates,Poor infrastructure stability,服务调用异常,Multiple projects in parallel cause problems such as mutual interference and so on.

regardless of whether you are a developer or a tester,I believe you have encountered these problems more or less.

在接下来的《环境管理》in the series,I will talk to you about the key points and specific implementation plans for building a good test environment.今天,Let me tell you about two issues related to the test environment first.:

1.What is the structure of the test environment in general??

2.What is a good test environment?

The structure of the Internet company's test environment

当公司规模较小时,Maintenance of the test environment is relatively easy.Development and testing share a set of infrastructure such as database cache,Because there are not many applications,The development environment can be stand-alone,Either manually or semi-automatically update the application of the test environment,The amount of time are within the acceptable range.

这时,The structure of the company environment is simple,分为开发环境,测试环境,生产环境即可.

但实际上,The R&D process and supporting environment of most companies I have seen are not so simple.,一般都会存在5The set of the environment more and more of the environment,The number of machines per environment may be tens or more.

So why do you need so many sets of environments??I summarize the main reasons for the following two aspects.

1.纵向上看,Increasing staff to improve the parallelism of the project,If you still use an environment at this time,就会