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Cloud-based Testing: Flexible, Scalable, On-demand, and Cheaper
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Cloud computing is here to stay-and it is changing the way we test software. Cloud-based testing offers flexible, scalable, and on-demand infrastructure services. And as a bonus, because the cloud offers pay-per-use purchasing options, cloud-based testing usually costs less. Tauhida Parveen describes the concept of cloud-based testing: scope, specific requirements, benefits, and drawbacks. She explains how cloud-based testing brings new capabilities and options for your testing activities-instantly creating and dismantling test environments and miming production environments in early testing. Tauhida discusses how to engineer scalable environments for load, stress, and performance testing. Then, she introduces cloud-based compatibility, cross-browser, and cross-platform testing opportunities you can exploit.
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Tauhida Parveen, Independent Testing Consultant
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Testing in an SOA Environment Testing Web applications built with service-oriented architecture (SOA) is not the same as testing any other GUI-based application. Testing teams encounter major challenges including errors due to unexpected changes in internal and external services, compliance verification requirements, industry-specific standards, security issues, and more. To address these challenges, teams must adopt new testing methodologies that focus on ensuring the quality of services (QoS) deployed under the SOA development framework. Join Sanjeev Padasalgi as he explains how to plan and deploy a complementary SOA testing framework that addresses compliance, governance, and overall QoS issues. Supporting functional, security, performance, and regression testing, this SOA testing framework addresses Web services testing throughout the development and delivery lifecycle.
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Sanjeev Padasalgi, Sonata Software Ltd.
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Testing and Quality Beyond the Requirements and Code Many organizations institute testing and quality improvement initiatives focused on testers, developers, and software managers. One stakeholder often ignored in these efforts is the user-your customer. To dramatically improve overall product quality, you must purposefully include the user in your testing efforts. Lanette Creamer illustrates this anecdotally with some important bugs missed, which would not be found even with 100% test and code coverage. Find new ways to collaborate with users and learn how to adopt a customer-based focus on integration and functionality. Explore ideas that will help you consciously “zoom out” to see important gaps in your test coverage. Learn specific techniques to help you and your team find bugs that lurk outside the requirements and beneath the code.
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Lanette Creamer, Adobe Systems
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Systematic Techniques for Fault Detection and Isolation Selecting the appropriate testing techniques and test cases improves test efficiency, reduces time to market, and gives you confidence that the system is ready to ship. Using real-world case studies as examples, Madhav Phadke explains the fundamentals of robust test case selection and how code coverage can improve your test results. He discusses ways for testers to support debugging and faster repairs by isolating defects to a specific part of the software. Learn to select test outputs based on "total function evaluation" rather than end customer outputs and ways to use orthogonal arrays for testing combinations of parameters. Take away a list of free or inexpensive tools that can speed up your testing process.
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Madhav Phadke, Phadke Associates
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Testing Software Builds Automatically Using Virtual PC Software When they receive a new software build, testers usually start their automated testing runs. Instead, what if they could execute tests automatically at the end of the build process? Using Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 as the example tool, Geoff Stewart shares his experiences using virtual PC software to configure, baseline, and isolate a test environment and automatically execute tests as part of the build process. By using virtual machine software via a command line interface, anyone can run tests without knowledge of the testing tool. Geoff demonstrates the technique and explains how he saves test results in XML for easier post-processing and historical reference. Get a head start on test execution, eliminate version conflicts, and save time installing test tools on host machines.
- An overview of virtual machine technology
- Integrating test execution with an automated build process
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Geoff Stewart, Itron Inc
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Design Testability and Service Level Measurements into Software Design and architecture decisions made early in the project have a profound influence on the testability of an application. Although testing is a necessary and integral part of application development, architecture and design considerations rarely include the impacts of development design decisions on testability. In addition, build vs. buy, third party controls, open source vs. proprietary, and other similar questions can affect greatly the ability of an organization to carry out automated functional and performance testing-both positively and negatively. If the software or service is delivered to a separate set of end-users who then need to perform testing activities, the problems compound. Join Jay Weiser to find out about the important design and architecture decisions that will ensure more efficient and effective testability of your applications.
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Jay Weiser, WorkSoft
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