1.Lack Of Constant Monitoring
You reach out to Stage only to test a recently deployed change in it. Monitoring helps you to prevent any code deployment above the threshold limit offering state stability, ultimately preventing the QA from going erratic. Don’t simply rely on monitoring tools! They tend to exert a significant overload on the monitored server and it’s not wise to just leave a complete environment in the hands of a 3rd party service provider. Especially, if you have invested a large amount of money on it. Staging being the closest of all environments to Production needs continuous monitoring.
2.Running Stage At 11th Hour
This is a very common let down on the management part. Pressure of RAD(Rapid Application Development) leads to hasty deployment through pipeline. With a large number of requests from end users bug logging, RCA(Root Cause Analysis), bug fixing, validation, outage management, and other responsibilities often overshadow the presence of Staging Environment. As a result, the pipeline to QA is established when the release date starts dawning upon the horizon. You need to provide your testers enough time to test the product thoroughly in this environment, otherwise, this is no different than pushing change from DEV to Production.
3.Cross Browser Testing
A web-app gets rendered differently by different browsers and their versions. This depends upon the rendering engines designed by manufacturers. As a result, elements like applets, javascript, CSS, etc. are not supported on every browser in a similar manner. Ensuring a robust UI is critical for any business, and is a task that testers should keep in mind while validating in QA. LambdaTest is a free cross browser testing cloud providing 2000+ desktop and mobile browsers running on real OS.
4.Systematic Updates
There are times when a major outage disrupts the whole working atmosphere of a team, bringing everyone on the call. The clients, the managers, the developers, and even testers. Everybody brainstorming on what went wrong and on whose behalf. When the services are down, customers are onto you like a 911 emergency & you need to deliver a quick fix ASAP. In this rush, we often provide a workaround or even deploy a minor fix in the Production immediately to calm the scenario but we forget to deploy that tiny fix in the Staging too. We forget to update it in the next couple of hours or the next couple of days due to handling a lot on the plate. Efficient management is needed to make sure that even a micro-level fix is migrated to all associated environments especially to QA.
5.Your QA Is Not As Identical To Production As You Assume It To Be
This is related to the previous point. You deploy an immediate fix into Production but miss out on QA. The next release cycle draws upon you. Your QA validation passes perfectly but the moment you migrate to Production the code goes haywire. This could happen due to that small bug which was missed out between the 2 environments.
6.Obsolete Testing Practices
Many companies follow outdated testing practices where they have an isolated QA team that fails to completely integrate with Dev. You will notice a constant argument between the testers and developers in this scenario. A fix will go to QA, another bug related to that fix gets logged reverting the pointer back to Developer who will then redeploy hastily and the vicious cycle continues. By the time the release date pops up, you end up deploying a lot fewer fixes as compared to the number you planned or the number that your clients expect.
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