Testing methodologies for cloud performance

Abstract

Cloud environment basically offers Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS). Here we describe the testing process employed for performance testing. Though new tools for testing cloud are emerging into the market, there are aspects which are suited for manual testing and some which can be speeded up using automatic testing tools. This paper brings out the techniques best suited to test different features of Cloud computing environment. The authors also try to bring out (recommend) broad guidelines to follow while setting up a cloud environment to reduce the number of bugs in the system.