The behaviour of software is influenced by whatever environment it happens to be deployed in. Achieving a sufficient level of coverage for all deployment scenarios during lab testing is difficult for even the most resources rich organisation. We refer to this as the Test Scenario Explosion Problem and propose the construction of a peer-to-peer network which facilitates the quick creation of large-scale virtual test labs that are representative of a company's customer base. Following an outline of our initial ideas in this regard, a number of open research challenges are discussed.
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