Cloud-Based Load Simulation Platform
Submitted by stresstester on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 22:07
Testing discrete applications using the Cloud platform helps not only to host and run the test infrastructure and test applications but also to use test-bed which can help projects/products reduce the overheads in setting up world class test facility. Cloud infrastructure along with Cloud test platform benefit in terms of reduced time, effort and cost in setting up the various test environments. Automated provisioning of test infrastructure on cloud enables to achieve instantaneous high scale as needed for the target test application helping in more accurate capacity planning and improved user experiences.
A Cloud Based Load Simulation platform offers to the enterprises a full service catalogue to test a range of real-time production scenarios. This platform with provisioning and de-provisioning on-demand cloud infrastructure shrinks test cycles from months to weeks by eliminating the procurement time and infrastructure setup time drastically. Configurable tools using macros, simplifies the testing process, early stage analysis of weak links and ensures business continuity. This Cloud platform reduces the complexity of using cloud infrastructure for a developer/tester by providing those as part of the feature of platform itself.
Testing an enterprise application is an important part of software development life cycle and so is the case with application deployment environment. Application has to be tested for correctness, completeness, security and quality. It also has to be tested for the performance of the system under varied load, check when it fails so that the application can be constantly improvised. With respect to Software engineering, performance testing is determining the system behaviour in terms of responsiveness, stability, scalability, reliability and resource usage under a particular workload.