Cloud based testing of business applications and web services

This paper deals with testing of applications based on the principles of cloud computing. It is aimed to describe options of testing business software in clouds (cloud testing). It identifies the needs for cloud testing tools including multi-layer testing; service level agreement (SLA) based testing, large scale simulation, and on-demand test environment. In a cloud-based model, ICT services are distributed and accessed over networks such as intranet or internet, which offer large data centers deliver on demand, resources as a service, eliminating the need for investments in specific hardware, software, or on data center infrastructure. Businesses can apply those new technologies in the contest of intellectual capital management to lower the cost and increase competitiveness and also earnings. Based on comparison of the testing tools and techniques, the paper further investigates future trend of cloud based testing tools research and development. It is also important to say that this comparison and classification of testing tools describes a new area and it has not yet been done

Testing as a Service on Cloud A Review

Software testing is an important part of software engineering life cycle. Software testing is a process used for evaluating an attributes or capability of program and makes sure that it meets the requirements. The application building techniques have changed and has adapted to newly emerging technology of cloud. Cloud computing has changed t he way of obtaining computing resources, and also has given a new direction to manage and deliver computing services, technologies, and solutions. Cloud computing not only brings new business opportunities, but also causes some majo r impacts on software testing and maintenance. Cloud computing creates an opportunity that offer s testing as a service (TaaS) for SaaS and Cloud s. This lead to a new phase shift in conventional testing thereby identifying new issues, challenges and needs in software testing, particular in testing Cloud s and Cloud - based applications. This paper gives a comprehensive view on Testing as a Service. Also a comparative view towards conventional testing and Cloud testing is also considered

TESTING AS A SERVICE (TAAS) – AN ENHANCED SECURITY FRAMEWORK FOR TAAS IN CLOUD ENVIRONMENT

Testing becomes an important process not only in terms of exposure but also in terms of performance, safety, usability. Test Environment that directly represents the production environment is too expensive in terms of hardware, software licenses and more people. Cloud computing supports an everything as a service (XaaS) Delivery model. Testing-as-a-service (TaaS) is a new model to provide testing capabilities to end users. Users save the cost of complicated maintenance and upgrade effort, and service providers can upgrade their services without impact on the end-users. Due to uneven volumes of concurrent request, it is important to address lack of security policy and evaluating the right tool for application of TaaS platform in a cloud environment

A Systematic Mapping Study of Empirical Studies on Software Cloud Testing Methods

Context: Software has become more complicated, dynamic, and asynchronous than ever, making testing more challenging. With the increasing interest in the development of cloud computing, and increasing demand for cloud-based services, it has become essential to systematically review the research in the area of software testing in the context of cloud environments. Objective: The purpose of this systematic mapping study is to provide an overview of the empirical research in the area of software cloud-based testing, in order to build a classification scheme. We investigate functional and non-functional testing methods, the application of these methods, and the purpose of testing using these methods. Method: We searched for electronically available papers in order to find relevant literature and to extract and analyze data about the methods used. Result: We identified 69 primary studies reported in 75 research papers published in academic journals, conferences, and edited books. Conclusion: We found that only a minority of the studies combine rigorous statistical analysis with quantitative results. The majority of the considered studies present early results, using a single experiment to evaluate their proposed solution

A systematic review on cloud testing

A systematic literature review is presented that surveyed the topic of cloud testing over the period (2012-2017). Cloud testing can refer either to testing cloud-based systems (testing of the cloud), or to leveraging the cloud for testing purposes (testing in the cloud): both approaches (and their combination into testing of the cloud in the cloud) have drawn research interest. An extensive paper search was conducted by both automated query of popular digital libraries and snowballing, which resulted into the final selection of 147 primary studies. Along the survey a framework has been incrementally derived that classifies cloud testing research along six main areas and their topics. The paper includes a detailed analysis of the selected primary studies to identify trends and gaps, as well as an extensive report of the state of art as it emerges by answering the identified Research Questions. We find that cloud testing is an active research field, although not all topics have received so far enough attention, and conclude by presenting the most relevant open research challenges for each area of the classification framework.This paper describes research work mostly undertaken in the context of the European Project H2020 731535: ElasTest. This work has also been partially supported by: the Italian MIUR PRIN 2015 Project: GAUSS; the Regional Government of Madrid (CM) under project Cloud4BigData (S2013/ICE-2894) cofunded by FSE & FEDER; and the Spanish Government under project LERNIM (RTC-2016-4674-7) cofunded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, FEDER & AEI

A New Computing Envornment Using Hybrid Cloud

Cloud computing is commonly used for the delivery of software, infrastructure and storage services over the internet. The delivery of services can be done in the private cloud or public cloud. Private cloud resources will be within our data center and it is a secure environment where only specified client can operate. Public cloud resources are provided in a virtualized environment, which provides a pool of shared resources. Hybrid cloud is integration of private, public and in some cases community cloud to perform unique functions within the same organization. Small and medium scale organizations cannot effort to setup IT infrastructure so hybrid cloud is the solution for them. This paper deals with the hybrid cloud computing and architecture of the hybrid cloud computing, advantages, disadvantages and differences of hybrid cloud computing. This paper also tells about the challenges of the hybrid cloud computing