Cloud Testing

Hi folks,

Few things on cloud testing

 Cloud testing type

• System testing
• Interoperability testing – infrastructure
• Performance
• Availability
• Multi tenancy- security
• Disaster recover

 

Cloud testing key objectives

• Ensure excellence of cloud based applications
• Authenticate software as service in cloud environments
• Verify automatic cloud based functional service
• Analyze inter operation capabilities and compitability

 

Consideration for cloud based testing APIs

• Data security and privacy
• Data migration
• Interface compitability
• Enterprise application integration

 

Cloud Test environment types

• Cloud based enterprise test environment
• Private/public test environment
• Hybrid cloud test environment

 

Challenges of cloud testing

• Lack of environment control
• Lack of transparency
• Query limitation
• Self modification and autonomic behavior
• Asynchronous interaction
• Time and load dependent behavior
• Huge configuration space
• Ultra large scale
• Low observity

 

Challenge SAAS with dummy data

Place holder of simultate the real data with no impact

• Simulate behavior of real data
• Can be quickly created to test API
• Allow developer to focus on test

Role of dummy data in test API

• Nominally occupy space of real data
• Act as stub to avoid api testing issue
• Data for security testing

 

Cloud testing benefits

• Flexible, comprehensive and indicative testing
• Reduce cost of ownership
• Promote green IT
• Geographic transparency and traceability

 

Cloud testing strategy

• Stress- testing till breaking point
• Performance- measure response time
• Functional
• Latency
• Security 
• Capacity testing= max capacity for current future hardware
• Governance risk compliance test
• Load- system stability

 

Service model as Test as a servie (TAAS)

• Taas process management
• Access TAAS  service
• On demand test environment
• Service option
• Service provisioning
• Service execution

 

TAAS benefit

• Reduce cycle time
• Reduce business risk
• Improve agility with highly automated solutions
• Helps leverage transactional pricing model for predictable and affordable solutions

 

TAAS provider- IBM, SOASTA, sauselab,skytap,vmlogics,