Cloud Based Testing : Exploring the Practice
The primary
concern of the software industry is to lay increased emphasis on QA and Testing
requirements for successful product development. Customers expect zero faults
and 110% performance from every project. To get accurate results and zero
defect, test automation is essential. Usage of test automation in agile testing
helps to increase accuracy and productivity.
Software testing
is an ongoing process in SDLC. Depending on the SDLC method, testing is
implemented at the initial stage. Traditional testing requires huge, dedicated
infrastructure and resources that are used intermittently. With the
ever-increasing complexities involved with every business, it becomes difficult
for organizations to maintain an in-house QA team that can imitate the
real-time environments. Creating new
test environment for every single project is a laborious process. Another shortcoming
of traditional testing is that certain application domains require extensive
resources for testing. Taking some realistic scenarios in account, for e.g. in
an online result checking process, system takes thousands of requests in a
minute. Creating such test scenarios requires large test harness with thousands
of users.
Cloud based
testing has the potential to eradicate the upfront principal expenses and
address the rapid demands for sophisticated test environments. It is a technique
of cloud-based applications testing that use resources (elements like hardware
and software) found in the cloud. It provides endwise result that transforms. The
benefits of testing in the cloud goes beyond the expected cost, some of which
include-
1.
Reduced requirement for hardware
2.
On-demand flexibility
3.
Enhanced collaboration
4.
Increased efficiency
5.
Reduced time to market key
business applications
6.
Easily centralize all IT
components
Cloud based testing has the potential to offer a convincing amalgamation of lower costs, pay-per-use
and eradication of upfront capital investments. The advantages, however, goes
beyond cost. The non-cost aspects include utility-like, enhanced collaboration,
on-demand flexibility better efficiency level, and most importantly, lesser
time-to-market for key business applications.
Thanks for sharing the info about cloud based testing.
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