Cloud Testing
Cloud Testing Services
- HoneyWell cloud testing services enables our clients to test their application deployed in cloud.
- Our cloud testing group provides cost effective solutions to our clients by providing Effective unlimited storage, Quick availability of the infrastructure with scalability, Flexibility and availability of distributed testing environment to reduce the execution time of testing of large applications.
- Our cloud computing testing solution offers an enhanced user experience, elastic scaling and automated provisioning.
- Ensure on demand self-service, Ubiquitous network access, location independent resource pooling and advanced virtualization through our cloud testing solution.
Cloud Testing Objectives
- Reduced cost
- Greater scalability
- Increased mobility
- Quick availability of the infrastructure
- To reduce the execution time of testing of large applications
Types of tests to be done under cloud
- Functional Testing
- Compatibility Testing
- Browser Performance Testing
- Latency Testing
- Performance, load and stress testing
Cloud Testing Key Challenges:
Challenges pertaining to Data Privacy, Residency, Data security and Compliance
Approach
- Conduct a discovery to identify the need for cloud testing (deliverable : Discovery Report)
- Develop the test scenarios based on Risk Based Testing that covers these following controls Encryption, Tokenization, Activity monitoring, Data loss prevention (DLP), Malware detection.
- Define UAT Criteria
- Identify the deployment models
- Perform audits & measure the effectiveness of cloud testing
Key to Successful Testing
- Understanding : Understanding a platform provider's elasticity model/dynamic configuration method
- Monitoring : Staying abreast of the provider's evolving monitoring services and Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
- Service Provider Relationship : Potentially engaging the service provider as an on-going operations partner if producing commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software
- Case Study : Willingness to be used as a case study by the cloud service provider.
HoneyWell recommends the following Cloud testing tools:
- SOASTA
- Cloud Assault
- Parasoft SOAtest
- HP LoadRunner
- Keynote
- LoadStorm