{"id":76,"date":"2012-03-21T13:06:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T13:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/collaboriscom.wpengine.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2022-10-12T16:10:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T16:10:06","slug":"where-to-host-your-sharepoint-test-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.collaboris.com\/where-to-host-your-sharepoint-test-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to host your SharePoint Test Environment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"\">Where to host your SharePoint Test Environment?<\/h1>\n<p>To test the UI of a new or existing SharePoint application you are going to need somewhere with the latest build on it. By &#8216;build&#8217; we mean the code that your developers have written and compiled into something that can be installed, or deployed into SharePoint.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s assume you have a package of the &#8216;latest change&#8217; in your hands and are ready to stick it somewhere. Where do you put it?<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"\">Where to host your environment?<\/h2>\n<p>When deciding on where and how to do your testing &#8211; there are a few options to choose from such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An environment on-premise<\/li>\n<li>A virtual environment on-premise<\/li>\n<li>A cloud-based environment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This decision is very important, and a few factors need to be taken into account.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cost.<\/strong> You need to think about how much &#8216;kit&#8217; you need, software licence costs, costs of a server admin guy to set-up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reliability.<\/strong> Obviously, if you are testing throughout the life-cycle of a project the kit needs to be reliable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ability to base-line to &#8216;live&#8217;+<\/strong>. This is THE main feature I would always want. Over the course of a project your testing team will test daily. As SharePoint is effectively a CMS &#8211; content can affect the tests. For example, you may have a test case that &#8216;Adds XYZ Web Part to page&#8217;, &#8216;Check in&#8217; and the go delete some documents. This is fine the first time, but what happens the 2nd time? You now have a web part already added and have removed some documents. See section on &#8216;Snapshots and Virtual Environments&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Support.<\/strong> If something goes wrong with the environment (or SharePoint) who is there to help?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time to set-up<\/strong>. I have worked in some orgs where it literally takes 6 months to build a farm out of VMs &#8211; can you wait this long?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Complexity of your application under test<\/strong>. We touch on this below, but there are a few reasons why Cloud may become trickier than on-premise, although not impossible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Connection to the net<\/strong>. If you choose cloud &#8211; you will need a blistering fast connection, especially if you have a lot of automated tests. You may also need to upload huge test db&#8217;s which will chargeable beyond the standard sizes.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"\">A note on Snapshots and Virtual Environments<\/h2>\n<p>To test DocRead we create a &#8216;demo environment&#8217; with all of the staging data we need. This includes these types of artefacts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"\">Test Users &#8211; created in AD and assigned permissions in SharePoint<\/li>\n<li style=\"\">Test Web Apps, Sites and Webs<\/li>\n<li style=\"\">Test Lists libraries<\/li>\n<li style=\"\">Test Pages<\/li>\n<li style=\"\">Groups and Audiences<\/li>\n<li style=\"\">Service App config<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once we have this all defined and setup in SharePoint, we document it in a spreadsheet and then create a snapshot. Once this snapshot is created, this means that at any point we can revert back to a base-line in minutes rather than weeks. This gives us the confidence that when our tests run and bugs are raised, it&#8217;s very unlikely to be down to environmental issues. <strong>For this reason alone, I would never use a physical environment for testing, unless you are considering a load \/ performance test.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"\">On-premise or in the Cloud (hosted)?<\/h2>\n<p>Everyone&#8217;s circumstances are different, but we choose to host our test environments with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudshare.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">CloudShare<\/a> and here&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"\">We don&#8217;t need to worry about physical environments or low-level networking &#8211; their guys do it.<\/li>\n<li style=\"\">It&#8217;s cheap. I think it currently runs at about $50 \/ month (and you get the required licenses).<\/li>\n<li style=\"\">You can snapshot an entire environment in one go or on a machine by machine basis.<\/li>\n<li style=\"\">You can share enviromental &#8216;clones&#8217; with other users very easily.<\/li>\n<li style=\"\">There are tons of starting points to build up from.<\/li>\n<li style=\"\">This is their business and they know what they&#8217;re doing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you need to know any more about how we test <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collaboris.com\/products\/docread\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">DocRead<\/a> using Selenium and ShareTest at CloudShare please see our other blogs.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.collaboris.com\/ui-testing-sharepoint\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"outline: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">UI Testing SharePoint<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d also love to hear about your experiences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: var(--tve-font-size, 13px);\"><span data-shortcode=\"tcb_post_published_date\" data-shortcode-name=\"Post date\" data-extra_key=\"\" data-attr-type=\"published\" data-attr-date-format-select=\"F j, Y\" data-attr-date-format=\"F j, Y\" data-attr-show-time=\"0\" data-attr-time-format-select=\"g:i a\" data-attr-time-format=\"\" data-attr-link=\"0\" data-attr-target=\"1\" data-attr-rel=\"0\" data-option-inline=\"1\">February 10, 2022 <\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"\"><span data-shortcode=\"tcb_post_title\" data-shortcode-name=\"Post title\" data-extra_key=\"\" data-attr-link=\"1\" data-attr-target=\"0\" data-attr-rel=\"0\" data-option-inline=\"1\" data-attr-static-link=\"{&quot;className&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;#&quot;,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-attr-css=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.collaboris.com\/how-to-find-out-who-has-completed-a-sharepoint-survey\/\" title=\"How to find out who has completed a SharePoint Survey\" data-css=\"\">How to find out who has completed a SharePoint Survey<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>How to find out who has completed a SharePoint SurveyIf you would like to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collaboris.com\/how-to-find-out-who-has-completed-a-sharepoint-survey\/#more-391\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.collaboris.com\/how-to-find-out-who-has-completed-a-sharepoint-survey\/\"><span><span>Read More<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: var(--tve-font-size, 13px);\"><span data-shortcode=\"tcb_post_published_date\" data-shortcode-name=\"Post date\" data-extra_key=\"\" data-attr-type=\"published\" data-attr-date-format-select=\"F j, Y\" data-attr-date-format=\"F j, Y\" data-attr-show-time=\"0\" data-attr-time-format-select=\"g:i a\" data-attr-time-format=\"\" data-attr-link=\"0\" data-attr-target=\"1\" data-attr-rel=\"0\" data-option-inline=\"1\">December 13, 2021 <\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"\"><span data-shortcode=\"tcb_post_title\" data-shortcode-name=\"Post title\" data-extra_key=\"\" data-attr-link=\"1\" data-attr-target=\"0\" data-attr-rel=\"0\" data-option-inline=\"1\" data-attr-static-link=\"{&quot;className&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;#&quot;,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-attr-css=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.collaboris.com\/creating-sharepoint-audience-new-employees\/\" title=\"Creating a SharePoint Audience for New Employees\" data-css=\"\">Creating a SharePoint Audience for New Employees<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>How to &nbsp;create a SharePoint Global Audience for New EmployeesAutomatically identifying a &#8216;new employees&#8217; 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