Reducing Effort with Automated Testing Integrations.
As many companies are approaching cloud computing solutions with cautious optimism, application testing appears to be an area where organizations are willing to be more bold. Cloud testing has the potential to offer a combination of lower costs per usage and elimination of initial capital investment (CapEx). Other benefits include flexibility, freeing up IT assets, and higher levels of software development efficiency through the reduction of time releasing critical technologies.
Key factors for cloud testing are:
Testing is a periodic activity and requires new environments to be set up for each project.
Company testing labs typically consume a lot of capital, energy, space, and labor to be prepared. Besides being costly, testing environments create competition between development streams with impact on entire testing and development teams.
Testing is important but often not considered critical business activities.
Cloud testing is seen as a safe bet because it doesn't involve confidential corporate data and has little impact on the company's sustaining activities.
Applications are increasingly distributed into components.
Applications run on multiple operating systems, various versions, multiple hardware platforms with a large number of concurrent users to understand their real-time performance. The conventional approach of manually creating in-house testing environments that fully mirror these complexities and multiplicities consumes huge capital.