Challenges and opportunities for software testing in the cloud

Nowadays, cloud computing gained significant attention as an emerging paradigm for developing and delivering computing applications and services. Cloud computing impacts all software development phases and opens new issues and challenges in software testing bringing the opportunity to offer testing as a service (TaaS). This talk will provide an introductory overview of the state-of-the-art on testing in the cloud, trying to evaluate and compare the most innovative testing methods and tools. We will explore basic concepts of cloud-based testing, covering its main objectives, requirements and benefits and will investigate differences between conventional software testing and cloud-based software testing. In addition we will analyze the current practice and market trends on cloud-based testing and hint at questions and opportunities for research inside software testing community.