When it comes to software testing, it is a very expensive process. There are several challenges faced by these organizations that pursue testing. Limited test budgets, Deadlines are a few of them. Cloud testing is quite an all-rounder solution to all these problems. It basically creates an environment which simulates real world user traffic.

It serves the exact purpose of testing but with more efficiency, credibility and precision. It can note any error in the infrastructure or the system and quickly updates you with a fix. It helps both economically and qualitatively.

Here we discuss the issues related if cloud testing is not done and some advice from experts to keep in mind while performing cloud testing.

Let’s first discuss some problems which you may tackle if cloud testing is not done.

• Problem while validating the functional system and business preconditions.
• Obedience of the system with cloud-specific requirements and workings with issues such as performance, scalability, data migration won’t be possible.
• The information/data might be insecure and quite at risk with regards to hackers.
• As mentioned earlier, testing process is quite expensive if you take the traditional approach. Even after paying large cost, you get to do the test with the distribution environment preconditions from the patrons. In cloud testing, one can do the testing in a very less budget with a larger topographical reach.
• Testing the services anywhere could be a problem. If you do cloud testing, testing doesn’t require any specific location as it doesn’t require large hardware setup. Virtualization and thin clients are pro points of Cloud testing.
• Connecting to earlier point, maintenance of hardware is extra work if you use the traditional method. In Cloud testing, you don’t even have to install the hardware. Centralization of IT components can also be only done in cloud testing. In other testing methods, it should be done individually.
• Again, by minimizing the use of hardware, you are doing the testing in a lesser carbon footprint. It, in turn inspires the whole IT culture to progress towards a better format.
• The scalability can be much larger in the cloud testing which is an issue in other methods. The scope remains limited to the specific number of patrons which are present within the network.
• If you don’t perform cloud testing, it becomes a severe problem, if and when you are shifting the application from a material server culture to a cloud environment.
• One should perform load cloud testing for the application as it should work under stressful conditions in the future. If not, the software becomes unstable and breaks after a point.
• If performance testing is not done, the tailbacks and bugs in the performance couldn’t be detected. The users, whom you have targeted on a geographical basis and with less cost, won’t be attracted at the application.
• The online measurement of dormancy and monitoring of analogous reaction of the application while testing can only be done in cloud testing. It can be done immediately when you station the app on cloud. Other traditional testing methods don’t offer this feature.
• Validation of application’s maintenance for various browsers and performance of the application in each browser won’t be possible without cloud testing.
• Without cloud testing one can’t generate on-demand illustrations of different operating systems. This makes compatibility testing more easy.
• In cloud testing method, you can do online automated service testing anytime, anywhere. In the traditional methods, you can’t do such on demand testing.

Now, after having noted what might go wrong if you don’t do online testing; let’s focus on the good part. When you perform cloud testing, to make it more effective, follow the steps given below.

• Establishment of user scenarios is done first. These scenarios are generally those which have functional intents that subscribers require and the outcome they expected.
• After this, test cases are derived. These cases are based on user’s needs and are made and created by the testers.
• Next, an appropriate cloud service vendor is brought up on board to perform the tests.
• After the vendor comes on board and setting up of the infrastructure and setup to access the cloud server is done, the testing traffic of the web is defined.
• Finally, after doing all this, the testing process starts here. Depending on the interaction between consumers and suppliers, various types of testing is done using the test cases.

It is preferable by many organizations to use licensed model of the cloud to test products and services for the clients through the web. It is much efficient than installing tests as cloud testing as a service is capable of validating various products for individuals or organizations.

Testing done in a cloud, testing the compatibility, testing the infrastructure, testing done over clouds and testing the whole cloud are the five forms of cloud testing.

So, we are at the end of this blog and we hope that the insights we gave you about cloud testing will be helpful to you in future use. Even if compared economically and time efficiency-wise, Cloud testing is cheaper than the traditional method and you pay for only the testing service you use. It also saves time and efforts put in setting up the extra hardware used in traditional methods.

So, Whenever you are doing the next test, Cloud it!

About VTEST

VTEST is an independent software testing company catering to product and service teams across the globe. We are a team of software testers who are passionate about quality and love to test. We develop an in-depth understanding of the applications under test and include software testing services strategies that deliver quantifiable results.

In short, we help in building incredible software.