Cloud testing automation: industrial needs and ElasTest response. Issue 5 (1st October 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bertolino, Antonia; Calabrò, Antonello; Marchetti, Eda; Cervantes Sala, Anton; Tuñón de Hita, Guiomar; Gheorghe Pop, Ilie Daniel; Gowtham, Varun
• Is Part Of: IET software. Volume 14:Issue 5(2020)
• Page Start: 553
• Page End: 562
• Publication Date: 2020-10-01
• Subjects: electronic commerce -- cloud computing -- public domain software -- home automation -- program testing -- Internet of Things -- automatic testing; cloud testing automation -- ElasTest response -- testing purposes -- scarce factual evidence -- real‐world industrial contexts -- automated cloud testing technology -- open source platform -- end‐to‐end testing -- distributed systems -- ElasTest solution -- demonstrator -- application domains -- European Project ElasTest -- Internet of Things -- e‐commerce -- 5G networking -- WebRTC; Computer software -- Periodicals; Software engineering -- Periodicals; 005.1
• DOI: 10.1049/iet-sen.2019.0140
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1751-8806

Abstract

Abstract : While great emphasis is given in the current literature about the potential of leveraging the cloud for testing purposes, the authors have scarce factual evidence from real‐world industrial contexts about the motivations, drawbacks and benefits related to the adoption of automated cloud testing technology. In this study, the authors present an empirical study undertaken within the ongoing European Project ElasTest, which has developed an open source platform for end‐to‐end testing of large distributed systems. This study aims at validating the ElasTest solution, and consists of the assessment of four demonstrators belonging to different application domains, namely e‐commerce, 5G networking, WebRTC and Internet of Things. For each demonstrator, they collected differing requirements, and achieved varying results, both positive and negative, showing that cloud testing needs careful assessment before adoption.