8. Lab Management

Lab Management is the most exciting new feature to be released by Microsoft for both developers and testers. Before explaining what this chapter contains, it is important to define Lab Management because you may have never heard of it. After reading this chapter, you will want to give it a try!

Lab Management is Microsoft’s Virtual Environment manager for developers and testers. One of the core concepts is the capability of a development team to start up an environment that mimics production as closely as possible whenever it is needed. And not just one environment—as many environments as are needed with the minimal amount of work. You can use these environments to run automated builds, automate tests, or to just provide developers ...

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