Cloud Computing Environment Testing Techniques and its Challenges: An overview

Cloud testing refers to testing of resources such as hardware, software, etc. that are available on demand. Even the testing hers can be viewed “as a service”. For cloud offerings it's essential to make sure that the service (product) not only meets its functional requirements but also nonfunctional requirements. With the range of applications in the cloud it is now becoming essential to develop cloud testing strategy. The idea of cloud computing is based on a very fundamental principal of ‘reusability of IT capabilities ’. The difference that cloud computing brings compared to traditional concepts of “grid computing”, “distributed computing”, “utility computing”, or “autonomic computing” is to broaden horizons across organizational boundaries. Applications such as e-mail, web conferencing, customer relationship management (CRM), all run in cloud.