Efficient Configuration Test Automation Using Virtual Machines

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According to the Sky I.T. Group, in today's latest web development environments, there are over 7000 possible configurations of Operating Systems, Browsers, Screen Resolutions, and other unique characteristics.
How to produce all these different environments? The traditional way is to build a big test lab equipped with various hardware and software configurations supported. This approach has obvious limitations. Read on as the author explains more on this subject.

According to the Sky I.T. Group, in today's latest web development environments, there are over 7000 possible configurations of Operating Systems, Browsers, Screen Resolutions, and other unique characteristics.
How to produce all these different environments? The traditional way is to build a big test lab equipped with various hardware and software configurations supported. This approach has obvious limitations. Read on as the author explains more on this subject.

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