Towards Software Testing as a Service for Software as a Service Based on Cloud Computing Model

Software testing on cloud computing model

Abstract

Cloud computing is an advance technology paradigm that permits ubiquitous access to shared pools of higher level advance services from different sources at single point services that is quickly administered with minimal managing effort through the Internet. As Cloud computing relies on shared resources to attain consistency, monitoring and potency issued to store, manage and processes data on the internet. For improving and providing facilities in Cloud, service models such as Infrastructure as a Services (IaaS), Platform as a Services (PaaS) and Software as a Services(SaaS), are used. Consequently, efforts must be done as not enough work exists which can describe maintenance and assessment of applications test suite on cloud environment especially in services model SaaS assessment and for testing in cloud use Testing as a Services (TaaS) as a third-party service to end users. As these models are providing two different services environments, their evaluation is a difficult task for engineers. In this research, we use testing layers in SaaS model to increases the efficiency of software testing requests while using SaaS applications by introducing archetype of TaaS layers merging SaaS over cloud for software testing. Consequently, this research provides prototyping in cloud-based testing for SaaS. The case study is used as an empirical evaluation method for our approach to test software in TaaS infrastructure with properly and precisely defining five layers using cloud environment, by introducing to accomplish the requirements testing and evaluation through SaaS. The results show that our proposed framework improves the testing activities and makes the evaluation process more efficient for engineers.