With the growth of software complexity and the reliance of business on IT, the expectations and challenges facing test and development labs have correspondingly increased. Today, these labs are facing a mix of strategic and tactical goals that seem to be ever increasing. All this compounds the pressures on delivering quality software to production, or to market quickly.

Virtual lab automation (VLA) reduces labor-intensive manual tasks necessary in test and development labs through automation. VLA allows test and development lab processes and infrastructure to be streamlined and centrally managed. This whitepaper discusses how VLA is transforming the test and development lab, and provides best practices for automating the test and dev process to maintain or strengthen your competitive advantage by getting better products to market faster.