Development of Software Testing Framework on Cloud

Abstract

Software testing is any activity used for evaluating an attribute or capability of a program or system and determining that it meets its required results. The difficulty in software testing stems from the complexity of software. There are several major issues that people are facing while testing the applications in their local environment, firstly they have to install multiple software for performing different type of tests like Jmeter is used for load testing LoadRunner for Performance testing, JUnit for Unit testing and many more, actually there is no common platform from where a user can get all these software and can use them according to the need by scaling up and down resources accordingly. Secondly on one hand while testing an application on personal computers results are not credible and accurate all the time because of the involvement of some hardware and software factors such as processing and computing time and storage differences etc. at the same time if an application needs to be tested under certain load for performance testing, in such cases not only the personal computers but even the private clusters become unsuitable. They usually prohibit deficiency of lack of resources, memory and storage for generating the load to test the application under stress. To tackle all these issues the software testing framework on cloud (STFC) is developed that provides multiple open source software testing tools on the cloud , with ease of accessibility, range of resources available on demand, provides credibility of results, without worrying about the management and maintenance.