Cloud computing is here to stay-and it is changing the way we test software. Cloud-based testing offers flexible, scalable, and on-demand infrastructure services. And as a bonus, because the cloud offers pay-per-use purchasing options, cloud-based testing usually costs less. Tauhida Parveen describes the concept of cloud-based testing: scope, specific requirements, benefits, and drawbacks. She explains how cloud-based testing brings new capabilities and options for your testing activities-instantly creating and dismantling test environments and miming production environments in early testing. Tauhida discusses how to engineer scalable environments for load, stress, and performance testing. Then, she introduces cloud-based compatibility, cross-browser, and cross-platform testing opportunities you can exploit. You'll learn about some tools and technologies-Amazon cloud services, SOA, web services, testing-as-a-service-to aid your cloud-based testing, and about the costs and effort it takes to get started. Take back tips you can share with your testing team to prepare them for the next generation of software testing.

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BW7
Concurrent Session
11/7/2012 2:15 PM
"Cloud-based Testing:
Flexible, Scalable, On-demand, and
Cheaper"
Presented by:
Tauhida Parveen
Independent Testing Consultant
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2. Tauhida Parveen
Independent Consultant
Tauhida Parveen is an independent consultant with an emphasis on cloud computing and
software testing. She has worked as a QA Engineer and a QA Analyst with organizations
including the Wikimedia Foundation, Millennium Engineering & Integration, Yahoo!, Sabre, and
Progressive Auto Insurance. Tauhida is an adjunct faculty member in the department of
computer sciences at Florida Institute of Technology, author of articles in numerous journals,
and presenter of tutorials and workshops at international testing conferences. Tauhida is
coauthor of Software Testing in the Cloud: Migration & Execution and co-editor of Software
Testing in the Cloud: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline.

3. Cloud‐Based Testing
Flexible, Scalable, On‐Demand, and Cheaper
Dr. Tauhida Parveen
tparveen@tauhida.org
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Motivation
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• We can leverage the power of cloud in testing
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4. Objectives
• Learn the relationship between cloud
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• Learn shifts from testing in house to testing in
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• How to migrate testing to the cloud
Outline
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Cloud computing
Benefits for testers
Challenges
Tools and techniques
Summary
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5. Cloud Computing
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What is cloud computing?
Service boundary
Service type
Resource abstraction techniques
What does it mean for testers?
Cloud Benefits
• Faster, cheaper, better
• Flexible
– Multiple test beds for multiple release testing
– Instant set up, tear down
• Scalable
– Virtualized labs
– Scalable resources
Scalable resources
• On‐demand
– Pay‐per‐use
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Standards
Security
Performance
Availability
• How do these effect testing?
Cloud Testing Techniques
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Cloud testing strategy
Roles and responsibilities
Infrastructure
Management
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7. Cloud Testing Environments
• Virtual test environments/labs
• What is available
• Benefit and drawback
– Amazon
– MS Azure
• Cloud testing tools
Summary
• Advantages in cloud testing
• Challenges in cloud testing
• Present and future of cloud testing
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