Testing as a Service (TaaS) in Cloud Computing Environment

Abstract

Abstract Software testing is a fundamental step during software development life cycle to ensure the software quality and functionality. Software testing requires many resources, infrastructure, tools, and skilful testers. Recently, software systems become more complex and large in size. This leads to increase in the software testing cost, time, and effort as well as increasing need to find adequate testing techniques and approaches to test application under test (AUT) thoroughly. Cloud computing is an emerging technology that can be used in the software engineering field to overcome defects of the traditional testing approaches by using cloud computing resources. As a result, testing-as-a-service (TaaS) is introduced as a service model that conducts all testing activities in a fully automated manner.