Survey on cloud based testing tools

Cloud computing has been adopted by many business organizations due to its simplicity and innovative technology. It has changed the way software used to be developed and delivered to customers. Every company aims to develop high quality software, with reduced cost and complexity. Cloud computing provides a platform for software testing where any application can be tested in cloud environment. The main goal of this thesis was to provide an understanding about cloud testing methodologies and explore cloud service providers offering various testing tools and technologies for different types of testing (functional and non-functional testing). This thesis incorporates description about cloud computing, its benefits, and how it has been helping the organizations with different service models. Taking cloud computing as the base of understanding, cloud testing methodologies and its architecture are explained. In addition, the cloud service providers along with the tools they provide for testing were explored and some of their features were discussed. The pros and cons were analysed in order to find whether cloud-based testing tools were suitable for the organizational environment and its differences were compared with the traditional approach of testing. The research for this thesis was carried out via companies (service providers) websites, blogs, articles, journals and other papers. Communication mediums such as chat, email and phone were also used for the research on tools. The study indicates that cloud testing is often used as a performance testing and is mostly implemented using software as a service model. In addition, organizations can be benefited by embracing cloud testing methodologies, if they know how to exploit it properly. The results of this study suggest that though cloud testing is attracting more businesses with its promise of minimal maintenance and low costs, it can sometimes be risky. Cloud testing provides more choices for the organizations regarding how to run the infrastructures, save costs and time and delegate liabilities to third-party providers. On the other hand, it can also be challenging in terms of security, performance and other issues. This thesis also analyses things to be considered before moving to the cloud system