• What Is Cloud Testing ?
• What Roles and responsibilities are required for the success of cloud-based testing?
• What Is the Role of Cloud Testing in Test Automation?
• When to move to cloud testing ?
• Benefits of cloud testing
• Cloud-based testing disadvantages

What Is Cloud Testing ?

Cloud testing is the process of using the cloud computing resources of a third-party service provider to test software applications. This can refer to the testing of cloud resources, such as architecture or cloud-native software (SaaS), or using cloud tools as a part of quality engineering strategy.

Cloud testing can be valuable to organizations in a number of ways. For organizations testing cloud resources, this can ensure optimal performance, availability and security of data, and minimize downtime of the associated infrastructure or platform. Organizations test cloud-based SaaS products to ensure applications are functioning properly. For companies testing other types of applications, use of cloud computing tools, as opposed to on-premises QA tools, can help organizations cut down on testing costs and improve collaboration efforts between QA teams.

What Roles and responsibilities are required for the success of cloud-based testing?

With the advent of cloud testing, we will require below roles and responsibilities in the team. However, they may differ from organization to organization but these are the standard ones:

Developers: To perform unit and integration testing, apart from development. Test Analyst: To implement the cloud testing strategy in the project. Technical test analyst: To perform the actual manual/automated testing of the applications. Customer: To perform acceptance testing. IT department: To monitor, analyze the cloud and they will act as a point-of-contact to the cloud provider. Cloud provider: To provide the service level agreements, services testing.

What Is the Role of Cloud Testing in Test Automation?

By leveraging the cloud — along with the resources it provides — you can create a scalable environment for executing your test suites at an optimum level of quality and efficiency.

1. Parallelization and Multi-Tenancy This is probably the most significant benefit. You can able to concurrently run a single test case for unlimited number of resources. Also, you can run different test environments on different resources to test the same test case Vs data.

2. Faster Execution You have access to a pool of resources that you can use for running test scenarios with the cloud at your disposal. In addition, making the test execution faster, improves the overall turnaround time of your automated tests, and reduces costs.

When to move to cloud testing ?

Every project/ software/organization is different and have different requirements. We need to answer the below questions when we think about adopting cloud testing in a project.

1. Is there a possibility that moving testing to the cloud may lead to a change in the test strategy or foundation of testing? The Foundation of testing is always going to remain the same – the testing skills, curiosity, enthusiasm are a few of them.

2. Do we need to learn new skills? Definitely, cloud testing will involve some new technology and the testers will need to learn them.

3. How is it going to affect the current testing tasks? Will it be beneficial or pose problems?

4. What are the different testing types that will be needed to execute?

5. What are the tools that will be required to perform cloud testing?

6. What risks should be considered?

Benefits of cloud testing

Here are some of the primary benefits associated with cloud testing:

Cost-effectiveness: Cloud testing is more cost-efficient than traditional testing, as customers only pay for what they use. Availability and collaboration: Resources can be accessed from any device with a network connection. QA testing efforts are not limited by physical location. This, along with built-in collaboration tools, can make it easier for testing teams to collaborate in real time. Scalability: Compute resources can be scaled up or down, according to testing demands. Faster testing: Cloud testing is faster than traditional testing, as it circumvents the need for many IT management tasks. This can lead to faster time to market. Customization: A variety of testing environments can often be simulated. Simplified disaster recovery: DR efforts for data backup and recovery are less intensive than traditional methods.

Cloud-based testing disadvantages

Bandwidth can be an issue because the cloud servers are shared resources. May pose security issues, since the data is handed over to a third party during testing. Requires very good internet connectivity. Limited control and dependency on the service provider.

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