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Challenges and opportunities in cloud testing

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Abdallah Qusef,

Sharefa MuradAuthors Info & Claims

DATA '19: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Data Science, E-Learning and Information Systems

Article No.: 15, Pages 1 - 7

https://doi.org/10.1145/3368691.3368706

Published: 02 December 2019 Publication History

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Abstract

Cloud computing is attracting the interest of many businesses around the world by offering feasible solutions towards hosting software applications and providing convenient development and testing environments. Cloud computing has developed enormously that it changed the management practices of dealing with computer systems and services. Because of cloud computing; testing as a service (TaaS) was created. Despite the facilities provided by TaaS, it produced some issues and challenges, particularly in cloud-based testing environments. Those issues are needed to be addressed and fixed. This paper reviews and addresses a set of challenges and benefits of cloud testing among with a theoretical comparison between cloud-based testing environment and traditional testing for regular systems.

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DOI:10.1145/3368691

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Afzal WPiadehbasmenj A(2021)Cloud-Based Architectures for Model-Based Simulation Testing of Embedded Software2021 10th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO)10.1109/MECO52532.2021.9460175(1-8)Online publication date: 7-Jun-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/MECO52532.2021.9460175
Parrott CCarver D(2020)Lodestone: A Streaming Approach to Behavior Modeling and Load Testing2020 3rd International Conference on Data Intelligence and Security (ICDIS)10.1109/ICDIS50059.2020.00021(109-116)Online publication date: Jun-2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDIS50059.2020.00021

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