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The Cloud testing market share is expected to be over 10 billion USD by 2022. Cloud migration for applications has become an attractive phenomenon, and end users have, as a result, achieved various benefits such as autonomy, scalability and agility and improved return on investment by migrating to Cloud. Cloud environment is inherently elastic with respect to applications, infrastructure and platform resources which consequentially translate to the benefits mentioned. The rapid consumer adoption of Cloud paradigm mandates software testing in order to ensure that services over the Cloud are working as expected. In addition to the need for testing Cloud services and applications, the emergence of Cloud computing has opened new avenues for providing testing services over the Cloud in the form of testing as a service (TaaS). Many quality assurance (QA) processes which have a direct impact on testing cycles, like test environment management and test data management, can be provisioned via the Cloud, resulting in immense additional benefits. This chapter sets the context of Cloud computing and its growing significance for the software industry before focusing on Cloud TaaS. Additionally, different types of Cloud deployments in testing ecosystem are discussed in this chapter including: testing on the Cloud, testing models, test processes relating to the Cloud, tools and frameworks.
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Vijayaraghavan, V., Singh, A.R., Sucharita, S. (2020). A Modern Perspective on Cloud Testing Ecosystems. In: Ramachandran, M., Mahmood, Z. (eds) Software Engineering in the Era of Cloud Computing. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33624-0_10
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