Cloud-Based Testing Services: Leveraging Cloud Infrastructure for Scalable Testing
What is cloud testing?
Cloud-based testing solutions provide performance evaluation at lower infrastructure costs, offer scalability and security testing by leveraging cloud computing resources. There has been a steady increase in leveraging the platform of cloud computing for software development activities.
For this purpose, it becomes important to incorporate and implement a cloud testing platform, so that testing on the cloud ensures the quality of the software product or application is scaled up. Resources can be shared and allocated accordingly.
Benefits of cloud-based testing services:
Quick deployment: For quick testing environments, the cloud offers the necessary resources and infrastructure. The start testing cycles are shortened by such resources and the overall development work is reduced accordingly.
Resources are streamlined accordingly: Proper access is provided by the cloud testing platform, as there is no need to support the testing infrastructure. Easy accessibility is provided to a wide range of resources and testing tools.
Accessibility and flexibility: Cloud-based testing environments can be used 24/7 by testers on a subscription basis from any location and via varied operating systems and devices.
Following are some of the popular cloud-based testing tools:
Xamarin test cloud: It is an UI-based acceptance testing tool exclusively used for testing mobile apps. The NUnit testing library is used for writing tests in C# through the UI test framework or tests can be written in Ruby through the Calabash framework.
Jenkins Dev@Cloud: It facilitates continuous deployment, development and integration on the cloud platform. Any number of services can be used for deployment and most of the popular programming languages can be used for development. A wide array of mobile tools are provided for development. This tool can be easily integrated into automated builds for continuous integration.
SOASTA Cloud: Four types of test automation, which are web-based functional and performance testing and mobile functional and performance testing are enabled on a single web platform. Millions of geographically dispersed users visiting the website can be simulated to test the application under enormous loads.
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