Novel Testing Tools for a Cloud Computing Environment- A Review

A cloud is an internetwork of different types of server which share resources. To manage, compute resources and services available in the cloud, a model is required, which is known as cloud computing model. To build an economic, efficient and scalable cloud computing model, a good testing tool is needed. For this, there is need of several thousand test cases for a large scale cloud computing system. Software Testing tools that are basically used for testing of conventional applications are of little use when it is applied to cloud computing. However, traditional testing tools are available in market but to test cloud incurs high cost to simulate user activity from different geographic locations. To test the cloud based software systems, modern techniques and tools are necessary to address quality aspect of the cloud infrastructure. A growing variety of Cloud based Open Source Software Testing Tools are being invented. Five major Cloud computing testing tools available in market are CloudTest, LoadRunner, CloudTestGo, TestMaker and Cloud9. The work mainly focuses on the introduction, characteristics and advantages of five major Novel tools available.