Framework for Testing As a Service over Cloud

Abstract

Cloud Computing refers to a new IT paradigm that has the ability to provide shared pool of conand#64257;gurable computing resources from any computing devices such as laptop, tablet, mobile etc. with minimal management effort or support from service provider. Cloud computing paradigm helps software companies to save huge amount of and#64257;nancial costs by relieving them from the tasks of procurement and maintenance. This provides an opportunity to software companies to focus on innovative practices of problem speciand#64257;c solutions. Software Testing is the most vital aspect of software development that should be performed judiciously to authenticate that the developed software meets approved quality principles. Ithas been observed and experienced by software industry that expenditure for testing the software is almost 30% of the total cost of the software development. Additionally, application is said to be robust if it has been tested on multiple operating systems and browsers of different versions. This ultimately raises the need of in-house testing labs that have the ability to cater required intricacies and diversities. But these labs often remain inoperative for a long period of time and have been proved as a massive drain on assets and computational resources. Therefore, software testing can be safely moved to the cloud as it offers high-quality testing at reduced cost and time and relieves the software companies from the burden of owning, reserving and maintaining private test labs. Thus, there is a need for offering a framework for testing as a service over cloud and is the motivation of this research work. To achieve the set objectives of addressing the challenges of creating cloud-based testing service, a comprehensive literature review has been done. Prevalent approaches of cloud-based testing models have been studied, analyzed and compared to identify inherent limitations of the existing work.