Taxonomy and Requirements Rationalization for Infrastructure in Cloud-based Software Testing

The pay-as-you-go economic model of cloud computing increases the visibility, traceability, and verifiability of software costs. Application developers must understand how their software uses resources when running in the cloud in order to stay within budgeted costs and/or produce expected profits. Scientific workflows often involve data intensive transactions which may be costly. Business and consumer application developers are likely to be particularly sensitive to costs in order to maximize profits. Verification of economic attributes of cloud applications has only been touched on lightly in the literature to date. Possibilities for cost verification of cloud applications include both static and dynamic analysis. We advocate for increased attention to economic attributes of cloud applications at every level of software development, and we discuss some measurement based approaches to cost verification of applications running in the cloud.

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“…However, it could also incur unwanted costs. For an in-depth discussion of strategies for and levels of testing in the cloud, see [11].…”

Section: Provider Based Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dynamic cost verification for cloud applications

Buell

Collofello

2012

Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Dynamic Analysis

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“…A recent study of Market Research Media forecasts that U.S. government spending on cloud computing is entering an explosive growth phase in the coming years, with expenditure surpassing seven billion dollars by 2015 [3]. Logically, this forecast has a direct effect on related cloud-based services.…”

Section: B Cloud-based Testing In Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Providing accurate measurement is difficult under any circumstances as merely implementing measurement practices will cause additional strain upon the system [2], [3], [31]. It is therefore important to ensure that any measurement procedures are implemented correctly, consistency and minimally.…”

Section: J: T10 -Accurate Measurementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With its foundation of virtualisation technologies, it seems a suitable choice to provide evaluation services for virtualised environments. However research has revealed that there is no complete offering in this area, with complexity of the environments and testing process appearing to be a dividing problem [3]. Therefore to further enable the development of cloud-based virtual infrastructure testing, this paper provides a survey of works in this area, foremost to further understand the challenges associated with the development of cloud-based testing environments.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Virtual Environments Testing as a Cloud Service: A Methodology for Protecting and Securing Virtual Infrastructures

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Testing is a vital component of the system development life cycle. As information systems infrastructure move from native computing to cloud-based and virtualized platforms, it becomes necessary to evaluate their effectiveness to ensure completion of organizational goals. However, the complexity and scale of virtualized environments make this process difficult. Additionally, inherited and novel issues further complicate this process, while relatively high costs can be constraining. Enabling service-driven environments to provide this evaluation is therefore beneficial for both providers and users. No such complete service offering currently exists. This paper is therefore aimed to benefit industry and academia involved in areas involved with cloud-based testing of virtualized software and its environments. A review of current literature highlights a number of challenges in the domain. An analysis of the challenges aided in deriving requirements for developing a servitization framework for virtual infrastructure testing as a service. It is anticipated that this framework can further feedback into developing solutions to the aforementioned challenges. An evaluation of a real-world organization's servitization requirements case scenario indicates that the proposed framework provides potential solutions for associated use cases.

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“…This type of testing is nowadays the most popular commercial service and it is also easier to use. Testing in the cloud is more complex task and requires much more attention to the details and stages of testing, including the definition of business requirements (Lněnička, 2013;Robinson & Ragusa, 2011). Therefore, this review is further focused only on the issue of testing from the cloud.…”

Section: Research Methodology and Methodsmentioning

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Classification and Evaluation of Cloud-Based Testing Tools: The Case Study of Web Applications' Security Testing

Lněnička¹,

Čapek²

2018

AIP

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The purpose of the article is to give a survey of research fields related to test and manage applications from the cloud, i.e. cloud-based testing, so that it can facilitate security requirements associated with the testing. This article has two main aims. The first one is the survey of published results attained by the synergy of these research fields -cloud-based testing, testing strategies and types of tests, and related architectures, which is followed by the classification of testing tools based on their testing strategies. The second part is focused on security testing of Fire and Rescue Service portals in the Czech Republic and identification of vulnerabilities in these portals. The results suggested that it is more appropriate to manage only one unified portal than a lot of portals on the regional level, also due to the economies of scale. Finally, the most suitable tool for cloud-based security testing was recommended based on these results and a typical cloud-based testing methodology was described.

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Taxonomy and Requirements Rationalization for Infrastructure in Cloud-based Software Testing

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Dynamic cost verification for cloud applications

Dynamic cost verification for cloud applications

Virtual Environments Testing as a Cloud Service: A Methodology for Protecting and Securing Virtual Infrastructures

Classification and Evaluation of Cloud-Based Testing Tools: The Case Study of Web Applications' Security Testing

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