testing cloud-based applications: what’s different, what’s the same

BW7 Session 6/5/2013 2:15 PM 

"Testing Cloud Applications"    

Presented by:

Bindu Laxminarayan Rackspace

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Bindu Laxminarayan Rackspace

Bindu Laxminarayan is an ISTQB Advanced Level Certified Tester with experience in testing various products related to hosting solutions, retail, airlines, and security domains. She has experience in testing cloud applications, web applications and services, APIs-DLL, installation and de-installation, application features, and websites along with testing desktop and network-based applications on various operating systems. The designer of several automation testing frameworks, Bindu is well-versed in a number of automation tools and has experience in performance testing for cloud applications. Bindu’s interests include root cause analysis, implementing strategies to achieve best quality, improving QA processes, and testing large scale systems.

Testing Cloud Based Applications: What’s different? What’s same?different? What s same?

Bindu LaxminarayanyRackspace

• Traditional Hosting• Why Cloud?Why Cloud?• Testing In Cloud• Cloud Models• Cloud Product Testing

Agenda

• Shared resources• Multiple failure reasons• Poor performancePoor performance• No control• Downtime

Traditional Hosting

Broad Network Access

Measured Service

On-demand Self Service

Rapid Elasticity

• ScalabilityScalability• High availability• Efficient resource utilization

Why to Cloud?

Cloud

• Functional • Performance• Security Testing• Compatibility Testing

Testing Scope

• Authorization• AuthenticationAuthentication• Fail Over Testing• Integration Testing• System Testing

Functional

• Performance• Load Testing• Stress Testing• Availability

• Security Testing• Security Attacks• Network Attacks

• Compatibility Testing

Other Types of Testing

• Service Models• IaaS• Paas• Saas

• Deployment Models• Private• Public• Hybrid

Cloud Models

• Virtual Machines , Servers, Storage, Load Balancers, firewalls

• Utility based billingUtility based billing• Testing

• Functional• Performance• Fail Over Testing

Infrastructure As A Service

• Operating System, Programming Language execution environment, webserver

• Testing• Functional

Platform As A Service

• Software such as Email, Virtual Desktop• Users do not need to install• Need not worry about cloud infrastructure• Testing

• Functional• Authorization• Authentication• Compatibility Testing

• Performance• Load• Stress

Software As a Service

Cloud

• Cloud Storage(Cloud Block Storage)

Cloud Product

• Functional• Individual functionality of storage unit• Integration of storage unit with your existing system• Authentication and authorized usage of information• Usage Calculation• Information on the usage to the customer

Cloud Storage Testing(CBS)

• Performance• Determining the performance of the process to• Determining the performance of the process to

store/retrieval of information• CPU Utilization of the resources on high loads

Cloud Storage Testing

• Browser Compatibility Testing• System Compatibility Testing

Compatibility Testing

• http://docs.rackspace.com/• https://rackspacecloud.com/• https://centrilogic.com/

References

Thank you

Bindu Laxminarayan