Answering: “You manage a product development organization. Some of your teams determine that they need access to a “production-like” test environment so that they can assess the scalability of their application as they build it. Current processes stipulate that expensive “production-like” test environments are only available as part of final application acceptance testing, just prior to releasing the application to production. Earlier access is not possible because other teams are using the pre-production test environments. Which two of the following strategies would you pursue?”
You manage a product development organization. Some of your teams determine that they need access to a “production-like” test environment so that they can assess the scalability of their application as they build it. Current processes stipulate that expensive “production-like” test environments are only available as part of final application acceptance testing, just prior to releasing the application to production. Earlier access is not possible because other teams are using the pre-production test environments. Which two of the following strategies would you pursue?
(choose the two best answers)
A. Tell the teams to do their best with their current test environment, simulating production as much as possible. Then release the product and let the customer determine if the product can scale.
B. You help them find someone who can help them with setting up testing and simulation software that can partially emulate the “production-like” test environment.
C. They should add additional time to the release schedule to account for the additional testing and rework the team will have to do when they find defects late in the delivery cycle. Set stakeholder expectations accordingly.
D. You work with the teams to develop a business case for procuring or gaining access to the necessary environment for validating the scalability of the product.