Cloud testing is a form of software testing where applications control cloud computing environments. It overcomes limitations of traditional testing like performance issues and high costs. Cloud testing is more cost effective for organizations and provides benefits like reduced costs, faster time-to-market, and accessibility. While moving to cloud testing provides opportunities, it also introduces new challenges around sensitive data, business impacts, and differing needs of large vs small enterprises.

1. Cloud Testing: The
Future of Software
Testing

2. • Cloud testing is a form of
software
testing in which Web
applications control Cloud
computing environments.
• Over the last two decades, the
bulk of applications were
running on client/server
architecture and data was
firmly attached with applications
in client/server architecture.

3. • Then the World Wide Web introduces
the N-tier application
architecture where developers could
make reusable and flexible
applications. By isolating an
application into tiers, developers
learned the option of adding or
modifying a specific layer instead of
modifying the entire application.
Technology innovation has further
provided web access to people on
the go via mobile devices and
laptops.

4. • Software testing has also experienced a long drawn
evolution cycle. From ad-hoc practices in different
business units, it progressively developed to a centralized
Managed Test Center approach. However, the testing
pattern has changed and there are major challenges that
need to be overcome such as complexity increasing costs
and infrastructure availability. Traditional application
testing has its own limitations as well like performance,
latency, extremely expensive execution costs, planning
and concurrency.

5. • As technology innovation carry on to make software
available on devices and various platforms. Software
quality assurance has also matched up with the latest
digital trends with its own innovation. Cloud testing
surpasses the challenges faced with traditional testing
and is a game changer. Setting up the cloud testing
service is very straight forward for any organization:
develop user scenarios, design test cases, setup
infrastructure, leverage cloud servers, select cloud
services provider, monitor testing goals start testing, and
deliver results.

6. Objectives of Cloud testing
1. To verify if system meets the requirements and
performed effectively in required environment.

7. 2. To guarantee the quality of cloud-based application. It
comprises of performance, scalability as well as
applications functionality in the cloud.
3. To verify if the tested application is appropriate for the
purpose in a cloud environment.
4. To verify the automatic cloud-based functionality which is
also called as auto-provisioned functions.
5. To check the inter connection between cloud
infrastructure and application deployed.

8. Some of the great benefits of
cloud testing
a) Cloud Computing Economics states that an organization
gets 45-65% savings in the traditional testing vs the cloud
testing model.

9. b) Eliminate up-front investment in hardware management,
procurement, software licensing, support costs,
maintenance and achieve fast ROI on application
investments.
c) Achieve faster time-to-market through project set-up &
execution and rapid procurement.
d) Ensure data integrity and ‘anywhere, anytime’
accessibility through enterprise-class secure, available and
redundant infrastructure with 24x7 operation.
e) Reduced operational costs and investments.

10. • Cloud testing is under persistent evolution and is
continuously bringing in new challenges and
opportunities. Moving testing to cloud is more cost
effective for any organization as long as it does not
contain sensitive data and there is negligible impact on
the organization’s business activities. Some may have
the belief that small business units will join public clouds
while large enterprises will control private clouds for their
cloud-based testing services. Whether the company is
large or small, the road to cloud-based testing is covered
with its own set of challenges.

11. Cloud computing measurements
that you should know
1. Cloud By 2017, end-user spending on cloud
services could be more than $200 billion.
2. There’s an expected 1 Exabyte of data stored in the
cloud.
3. Cisco forecasts that global data Centre traffic will triple to
7.7 zeta bytes annually in 2017, representing a 25 percent
CAGR.
4. 59% of all new spending on cloud computing services
originates from North American enterprises, a trend
projected to accelerate through 2016.