Test Environment Setup Still Manual?
Hours wasted on repetitive VM configuration. Inconsistent environments. Knowledge lost with every team change.
Manual test environments block innovation
Every team faces the same bottlenecks
QA Teams
3 days for test setup
Testing delayed by infrastructure
Development
Inconsistent envs
'Works on my machine' issues
Training Labs
8 hours setup
Per classroom environment
DevOps
No standardization
Every setup is different
The Pattern
Every organization hits the same wall: Manual VM provisioning doesn't scale. What starts as "just a few VMs" becomes a full-time job, blocking your team from actual work.
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Windows test environment challenges
Manual processes that don't scale
Manual VM Creation
Hyper-V Manager clicking for every test VM
→ Hours of repetitive setup work
Inconsistent Configs
No two test environments match exactly
→ Test results can't be trusted
No Version Control
VM configurations exist only as snapshots
→ Can't track or rollback changes
Can't Share Setups
Each team member builds from scratch
→ Duplicate effort everywhere
Knowledge Silos
Only experts know the right configs
→ Teams blocked waiting for help
Manual Software Install
Click through installers for each VM
→ Error-prone and time consuming
Test VMs that inherit and evolve
Your test knowledge becomes permanent, reusable assets
Manual Test Setup
- ✗Hours of manual configuration
- ✗Inconsistent test environments
- ✗No sharing between teams
- ✗Knowledge walks out the door
- ✗Can't reproduce exact setups
- ✗Testing blocked by infrastructure
Evolved Test Automation
- 2-minute test deployments
- 100% consistent environments
- Share configurations as genes
- Knowledge becomes permanent
- Perfect reproducibility
- Self-service test infrastructure
How the gene system works
1. Start with a gene
Choose a proven template from the genepool or create your own
2. Add what's different
Inherit base configs, customize only what you need
3. Deploy in minutes
Your improvements become new genes others can inherit
# Deploy a test environment in 5 minutes
$catlet = @"
name: test-env-01
parent: dbosoft/ubuntu-22.04/latest
# Add your organization's configurations
fodder:
- source: gene:myorg/test-setup
"@
# Deploy with one command
$catlet | New-Catlet | Start-Catlet
# Result: Ubuntu with your test tools ready
# Time saved: 40 minutes per deployment
Teams transforming their testing
Real results from test automation with eryph
Our QA team's test configurations are now genes. New testers inherit years of refinement instantly. Setup time went from days to minutes.
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Your potential time savings:
*Based on 30 VMs/month at $50/hour