On demand testing or Testing as a Service (TaaS) offers a pay-per-use method to augment the more traditional QA activities. To enable many of these on demand services requires tools and environment that are charged on a pay-per-use basis, and these are typically available through use of the cloud. In this session we will discuss some of the ways we have changed the cost model and approach to testing to be more responsive and cost effective. We will cover how large scale performance tests can easily be run from the cloud, as well as the use of SaaS tools for test management, security testing and code quality. We will look at how the cloud can help to manage the multitude of mobile devices that need to be tested.

1. sqs.com
SQS – the world‘s leading specialist in software quality
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SQS – Software Quality Systems
Leveraging the cloud for
On Demand test services
Gordon Flower – Head of On-Demand test services

2. Agenda
Challenges
• Tools
• People
What is on demand
• Pay per use
Use of the cloud
Agenda
• SaaS, Amazon AWS, Azure
Examples of cloud engagement
• Performance/automation/regression
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3. The The Challenges challenges for for testing
testing
Tools
License costs -
€€€
Setup/ configure/
maintain
€€
Infrastructure - €€
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Tools

4. The The Challenges Challenges for for testing
testing
People
Experience
Peaks and
troughs
Office
space
Specialist
skills
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People

5. What is On-Demand test service
What is On-demand testing
It’s a service model
• You do not get a specific person
It’s conducted off-site
• Generally short term engagements
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6. Pay per use method
Cost is based on different factors
• Service levels – response times / SLAs
• Complexity of application
• Codebase size
• Number of requirements / test cases
• Maximum concurrent load
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7. Traditional model vs On-demand model
Traditional
• On Site
• Start date and
duration
• Pay while waiting for
environments
• Pay while issues are
being fixed
• A person is assigned
On Demand
• Off site
• Start date and effort
• Pay while actively
engaged
• Schedule next test
execution
• A service is provided
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8. On Demand services
On Demand services
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Application
performance
monitoring
On
Demand
services
Code review
Application
security
testing
Functional
testing
Mobile
testing
Performance
Requirements
validation
Test
automation
testing

9. Use of Cloud tools
Use of cloud tools
SaaS
Templates
OS
provision
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10. How the cloud enables On Demand
How the cloud enables on demand
Cost
Accessible
/ Security
Setup
time
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11. Internal
Challenges in change
• On Site culture
• Management of
resources
• Documentation for
each account
Client
• On site culture
• Remote access to
System under test
• Security
• Belief in quality of
product
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12. Example test engagement
Example test engagement
Initial customer engagement
Create Proposal
Acquire access to the application
Create test collateral
Schedule & execute tests
Report on each test cycle
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13. Summary
Cloud Enables on demand testing
• Fast tool set up
• Lower infrastructure costs
• Efficient license models
• Flexible resource allocation
• More cost effective test resources (people
and tools)
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14. sqs.com
SQS Software Quality Systems
30 North Wall Quay
Dublin 1
Ireland
Phone: 01-6709916
Fax: 01-6709917
http://www.sqs.com
Gordon Flower
Head of on demand test service Ireland
Phone: +44 (0)75 807 99909
Mobile: +44 (0)28 90 409902
gordon.flower@sqs.com
Thank you for your attention.