A SOA testing platform on the Cloud: the MIDAS experience

The widespread use of SOA-based applications is posing new challenges to software testing since conventional methodologies are inadequate to cover the specific testing requirements of these applications. In this context, the European FP7 Project MIDAS aims at building an integrated platform for SOA testing automation designed and architected according to the SOA computing paradigm. In order to address the variability in the computational resources necessary for testing SOA applications of different complexity coming from different users, the MIDAS platform is designed as an integrated Testing as a Service (TaaS) framework deployed on a public Cloud infrastructure, available on a self-provisioning, pay-per-use, elastic basis. This paper introduces and discusses the Cloud-based software architecture envisioned in the MIDAS project by detailing the strategies adopted for its deployment on the target Cloud infrastructure (Amazon AWS).