Abstract:

Cloud computing can play an important role in software testing technology because of its high reliability and the benefits from ondemand access service pattern. It can also provide a new solution for hard to deploy problems in software testing with high efficiency and low cost. A novel idea called “testing as service” is proposed, which adopts the idea of “software as service” and extend its advantage into testing. The testing of service is a layered software testing architecture based on the Hadoop cloud computing platform. A competitive experiment is conducted to evaluate the load efficiency. The results demonstrate its fast response time and good performance in distributing the workloads when receiving requests from multiple users.

Key words: cloud computing;cloud testing;testing as a service;architecture;load balance