Cloud testing automation: industrial needs and ElasTest response

Bertolino A., Calabrò A., Marchetti E., Cervantes Sala A., Tunon De Hita G., Gheorghe Pop I. D., Gowtham V.

automated cloud testing technology  application domains  program testing  public domain software  Industrial demonstrators  test automation  cloud testing  Cloud testing  automatic testing  demonstrator  5G networking  distributed systems  e-commerce  cloud computing  electronic commerce  ElasTest response  ElasTest solution  end-to-end testing  cloud testing automation  Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design  Internet of Things  testing purposes  scarce factual evidence  open source platform  home automation  European Project ElasTest  Test automation  real-world industrial contexts  industrial demonstrators  Cloud  WebRTC 

While great emphasis is given in the current literature about the potential of leveraging the cloud for testing purposes, the authors have scarce factual evidence from real-world industrial contexts about the motivations, drawbacks and benefits related to the adoption of automated cloud testing technology. In this study, the authors present an empirical study undertaken within the ongoing European Project ElasTest, which has developed an open source platform for end-to-end testing of large distributed systems. This study aims at validating the ElasTest solution, and consists of the assessment of four demonstrators belonging to different application domains, namely e-commerce, 5G networking, WebRTC and Internet of Things. For each demonstrator, they collected differing requirements, and achieved varying results, both positive and negative, showing that cloud testing needs careful assessment before adoption.

Source: IET software (Print) 14 (2020): 553–562. doi:10.1049/iet-sen.2019.0140

Publisher: IET,, Stevenage , Regno Unito

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