Cloud-based Testing: Flexible, Scalable, On-demand, and Cheaper
- 1. 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 Brought to you by: 340 Corporate Way, Suite 300, Orange Park, FL 32073 888‐268‐8770 ∙ 904‐278‐0524 ∙ sqeinfo@sqe.com ∙ www.sqe.com
- 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 hd Motivation • Cloud computing is here to stay • It i h i th It is changing the way we develop and deploy d l dd l software • We can leverage the power of cloud in testing 1
- 4. Objectives • Learn the relationship between cloud computing and testing ti d t ti • Learn shifts from testing in house to testing in the cloud • How to migrate testing to the cloud Outline • • • • • Cloud computing Benefits for testers Challenges Tools and techniques Summary 2
- 5. Cloud Computing • • • • • 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 3
- 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 5