--- title: Achieving Continuous Validation with an Advanced Job Scheduler description: Discover how CloudShell Pro helps you achieve continuous network validation to ensure the reliability and performance your users expect. image: https://blog.quali.com/hubfs/Job%20Scheduler%20Image-2.png --- [![logo](https://blog.quali.com/hs-fs/hubfs/logo.png?width=120&height=36&name=logo.png "logo")](https://www.quali.com/) - SOLUTIONS - [DEVOPS CLOUD AUTOMATION](https://www.quali.com/solutions/devops-environments/) - [TEST ENVIRONMENTS](https://www.quali.com/solutions/software-test-environments-as-a-service/) - [LAB AS A SERVICE](https://www.quali.com/solutions/network-and-security-dev-test-lab-as-a-service/) - [SALES DEMO/VIRTUAL POC](https://www.quali.com/solutions/sales-demos-virtual-poc-environments/) - [CYBER RANGE ENVIRONMENTS](https://www.quali.com/solutions/cyber-range-environments/) - [VIRTUAL TRAINING LABS](https://www.quali.com/solutions/virtual-training-labs/) - [PRODUCTS](https://www.quali.com/cloudshell-platform/) - [CloudShell Pro](https://www.quali.com/cloudshell-pro/) - [Product](https://www.quali.com/cloudshell-pro/) - [Community](https://www.quali.com/community/) - [University](https://www.quali.com/university/) - [Support](https://support.quali.com/) - [CloudShell Colony \[NEW\]](https://www.quali.com/cloudshell-colony/) - [Product](https://www.quali.com/cloudshell-colony/) - [Request Free Trial](https://app.cloudshellcolony.com/sign_up?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Ffreedcamp.com%2FJacobs_Work_Projects_gNM%2FQuali_7GO%2Ftodos%2F25066065%2F&__hstc=208618317.2af89ba750e0bbc1c35b7c40ea6ff838.1567174142272.1567174142272.1567174142272.1&__hssc=208618317.1.1567174142272&__hsfp=1037199243) - [Login](https://app.cloudshellcolony.com/login?__hstc=208618317.2af89ba750e0bbc1c35b7c40ea6ff838.1567174142272.1567174142272.1567174142272.1&__hssc=208618317.1.1567174142272&__hsfp=1037199243) - [CUSTOMERS](https://www.quali.com/customers/) - [RESOURCES](https://www.quali.com/resource-center/) - [Blog](https://blog.quali.com/blog/) - Financial Services - [Financial Services Application Continuous Delivery](https://www.quali.com/financial-services-application-continuous-delivery/) - [Infrastructure Environments for Banks and Financial Services](https://www.quali.com/environment-as-service-for-banks-finserv/) - [FAQ](https://www.quali.com/faq/) - [Resource Library](https://www.quali.com/resource-center/) - [COMPANY](https://www.quali.com/about-us/) - [About Us](https://www.quali.com/about-us/) - [Leadership](https://www.quali.com/about-us/#management) - [News and Events](https://www.quali.com/about-us/news-events/) - [Partners](https://www.quali.com/partners/) - [Locations](https://www.quali.com/about-us/#locations) - [Careers](https://www.quali.com/about-us/careers/) - [Awards](https://www.quali.com/awards/) - [CONTACT US](https://info.quali.com/contact-us) ### Blog Stay up to date with blogs written by experts in the fields of cloud automation, infrastructure orchestration, and devops. ### Achieving Continuous Validation with an Advanced Job Scheduler # Achieving Continuous Validation with an Advanced Job Scheduler ![header-picture](https://blog.quali.com/hubfs/Job%20Scheduler%20Image-1.png "header-picture") **Author:** Jeff Rezabek **Published:** April 21, 2021 **Share it:** - - - - [mailto:?&subject=https://blog.quali.com/blog/achieving-continuous-validation-with-an-advanced-job-scheduler&body=https://blog.quali.com/blog/achieving-continuous-validation-with-an-advanced-job-scheduler](mailto:?&subject=https://blog.quali.com/blog/achieving-continuous-validation-with-an-advanced-job-scheduler&body=https://blog.quali.com/blog/achieving-continuous-validation-with-an-advanced-job-scheduler) ![header-picture](https://blog.quali.com/hubfs/Job%20Scheduler%20Image-1.png "header-picture") As technology’s role in our everyday life continues to grow, so does the need to ensure that the services we rely on remain on and stay operational. Unfortunately, as our dependence on technology grows,  the complexity of the environments supporting them grows exponentially, resulting in the need for continuous testing of production environments, networks, and other infrastructure. The need to certify equipment and proactively identify and resolve issues before they escalate has become a necessity. Recently, team Quali released an enhanced job scheduling innovation that addresses the challenge of supporting extreme-scale while maintaining agility for the most demanding environments. With support for Robot Framework, the open-source test automation framework, the [2021.1 release of CloudShell](https://help.quali.com/Online%20Help/0.0/Portal/Content/RN/Added.htm?tocpath=CloudShell%20Pro%202021.1%20Release%20Notes%7C_____2)[ Pro](https://help.quali.com/Online%20Help/0.0/Portal/Content/RN/Added.htm?tocpath=CloudShell%20Pro%202021.1%20Release%20Notes%7C_____2) helps organizations scale their automated testing and continuous validation efforts.  ## 3 Benefits of Quali’s Advanced Job Scheduler for Enhanced Test Automation  ### Conduct Continuous Validation on Production Networks  Networks are becoming more complex as new services and paths are added daily. As the complexity increases, the network gets harder to monitor and maintain to avoid outages, breaches, and performance issues. The traditional way of testing your network is by watching the logs and waiting for an alert. Unfortunately, by the time you get that alert, it’s often too late. This drives the need to proactively identify symptoms before they snowball into more significant issues that impact end-users, leaving you on the wrong side of a news story.  Using the job scheduler, you can run tests that mimic user behavior and perform validation in your production network or lab,  empowering you to identify potential problems and ensure the reliability and performance that your end-users expect.  ### Test and Scale Environments  Taking a proactive approach to supporting complex network configurations requires an extensive library of standardized, automated tests to use for each scenario and mimic user behavior at a grand scale.  Using the Robot Framework, an open and extensible framework that integrates with [CloudShell Pro](https://www.quali.com/products/cloudshell-pro/) to create powerful test automation scenarios, users can perform 1,000’s of automated tests every minute for high performance, continuous testing.  ### Optimize Resource Utilization  Much of the time spent testing is often spent waiting for resource pools to become available. With limited resources to run on, you must be efficient in running tests and utilizing resources to decrease testing times and avoid idle equipment.  The CloudShell advanced job scheduler doesn’t have to run tests in sequential order. Instead, the advanced job scheduler is able to pull from available resources provisioned by CloudShell Pro’s sandbox automation and run applicable tests as those resources are available.  View the [release notes](https://help.quali.com/Online%20Help/0.0/Portal/Content/RN/Added.htm?tocpath=CloudShell%20Pro%202021.1%20Release%20Notes%7C_____2) for the full list of updates in the 2021.1 release of CloudShell Pro. - Posted by Jeff Rezabek on April 21, 2021 - About Author: Jeff Rezabek, Quali's Product Marketing Manager, is an award-winning marketer with experience in creating content for startups and enterprises in the B2B technology (DevOps Software and Cloud Hosting) and healthcare SaaS space. In his spare time, he enjoys creating cringe-worthy jokes and volunteering for various organizations. 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