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Testing Cloud Services: How to Test Saas, Paas & Iaas
Everybody is confronted with cloud computing. Whether you are a user, designer, programmer, project manager, or tester, sooner or later the cloud affects your work. If you are involved in selecting or implementing services from the cloud, or in keeping them up and running, this book will prove to be an invaluable resource.
Testing Cloud Services covers an extensive list of risks that arise when implementing cloud computing, including some traditional risks and some completely new ones, and provides strategies for avoiding these risks and solving problems. Every risk is connected to existing, updated, and new test measures. It is necessary to start testing during the selection of cloud services, and continue end-to-end testing even after going live, as continuity risks arise all the time.
With this book in hand, you will save a lot of time and discover an effective approach to testing that can be applied in practice immediately!
Testing Cloud Services covers an extensive list of risks that arise when implementing cloud computing, including some traditional risks and some completely new ones, and provides strategies for avoiding these risks and solving problems. Every risk is connected to existing, updated, and new test measures. It is necessary to start testing during the selection of cloud services, and continue end-to-end testing even after going live, as continuity risks arise all the time.
With this book in hand, you will save a lot of time and discover an effective approach to testing that can be applied in practice immediately!
184 pages, ebook
First published January 1, 2013
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May 9, 2014
This book is presented as being pertinent to those considering the deployment of IT services in the cloud, via one of a number of engagement models, including:
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
Platform-as-a-Service (Paas)
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Whilst the book fully delivers upon its promise, I’d personally suggest that it’s relevant to anyone with a responsibility for, or even an interest in, the testing of information systems.
At ~180 pages cover-to-cover, it provides a brief and very easy to read guide to the core aspects of testing, from the role of the test manager, through identifying, managing and mitigating risk by testing, to the aspects of a system that one should be testing.
Of course, given the subject, it also provides a very useful introduction to, and overview of, the currently available cloud solutions. Whilst remaining product and vendor neutral, it uses commonly available services, such as Amazon, Dropbox and hosted email, to provide the reader with context.
As a consultant with a deep interest in the functional AND non-functional aspects of any information system, including those delivered fully or partially via the cloud, this was an extremely useful reference to the aspects of testing, regardless of where the target system is.
Specifically, non-functional aspects such as availability, performance, resilience and security are more than adequately covered here. Whilst not claiming to cover absolutely every single non-functional requirement, the book gives a good grounding in why these measures matter.
From the preface and introduction, it’s clear that the authors have considerable combined experience of software testing. This experience clearly translates across to the reader, whilst, as mentioned previously, showing no particular bias to their employer or to any particular vendor / solution / methodology.
In conclusion, this is an excellent book, providing the reader with a good grounding in the current crop of cloud-based solutions and services, whilst providing an extremely useful instruction in the art of testing.
For me, this book rates as 10 out of 10, as it provides the reader with all that is needed to get up-to-speed with the cloud and, more importantly, with systems testing.
Reviewed by Dave Hay MBCS CITP, Infrastructure and Cloud Capability Lead, IBM Software Services for WebSphere (ISSW)
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
Platform-as-a-Service (Paas)
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Whilst the book fully delivers upon its promise, I’d personally suggest that it’s relevant to anyone with a responsibility for, or even an interest in, the testing of information systems.
At ~180 pages cover-to-cover, it provides a brief and very easy to read guide to the core aspects of testing, from the role of the test manager, through identifying, managing and mitigating risk by testing, to the aspects of a system that one should be testing.
Of course, given the subject, it also provides a very useful introduction to, and overview of, the currently available cloud solutions. Whilst remaining product and vendor neutral, it uses commonly available services, such as Amazon, Dropbox and hosted email, to provide the reader with context.
As a consultant with a deep interest in the functional AND non-functional aspects of any information system, including those delivered fully or partially via the cloud, this was an extremely useful reference to the aspects of testing, regardless of where the target system is.
Specifically, non-functional aspects such as availability, performance, resilience and security are more than adequately covered here. Whilst not claiming to cover absolutely every single non-functional requirement, the book gives a good grounding in why these measures matter.
From the preface and introduction, it’s clear that the authors have considerable combined experience of software testing. This experience clearly translates across to the reader, whilst, as mentioned previously, showing no particular bias to their employer or to any particular vendor / solution / methodology.
In conclusion, this is an excellent book, providing the reader with a good grounding in the current crop of cloud-based solutions and services, whilst providing an extremely useful instruction in the art of testing.
For me, this book rates as 10 out of 10, as it provides the reader with all that is needed to get up-to-speed with the cloud and, more importantly, with systems testing.
Reviewed by Dave Hay MBCS CITP, Infrastructure and Cloud Capability Lead, IBM Software Services for WebSphere (ISSW)
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