Cloud Testing: A Survey on Tools and Open Challenges

Abstract

Cloud Computing is growing exponentially across organizations and it has a vast impact on the way traditional computation and software testing is conducted. The web based applications these days have different configuration setting, and different deployment requirements. The main focus of Cloud Computing is todeliverreliable, secured, fault-tolerant and elastic infrastructures for hosting Internet-based web applications. Computing the scheduling policies and allocation policy for resources which affect the cloud infrastructure (i.e. hardware, software services) for various web application under fluctuating load and system size is highly challenging problem to deal with. Testing cloud based web applicationsdemands for novel testing methods and tools. This paper is a survey on the growing need of cloud testing, the tools used and the open challenges in the area of cloud testing.