Blokland, a test consultant specializing in cloud issues who teaches courses in testing, and coauthors Mengerink and Pol describe to testers, test managers, and project managers the testing of and with services in cloud computing, from a customer's perspective. They discuss what cloud computing is and available application services; the role and tasks of the test manager; risks related to performance, security, availability and continuity,functionality, maintainability, legislation and regulations, and suppliers and outsourcing; and dynamic and static test measures, including performing audits and checks, listing requirements and measures, doing reviews and inspections on documents, configuring and reading monitoring tools and logging, testing during selection, and testing performance, security, manageability, availability/continuity, functionality, migration, and production, and testing due to legislation and regulations. Distributed by O'Reilly Media. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Everybody is confronted with cloud computing. Whether you are a user, designer, programmer, project manager, or tester, sooner or later the cloud affects your work. If you are involved in selecting or implementing services from the cloud, or in keeping them up and running, this book will prove to be an invaluable resource.
Testing Cloud Services covers an extensive list of risks that arise when implementing cloud computing, including some traditional risks and some completely new ones, and provides strategies for avoiding these risks and solving problems. Every risk is connected to existing, updated, and new test measures. It is necessary to start testing during the selection of cloud services, and continue end-to-end testing even after going live, as continuity risks arise all the time.
With this book in hand, you will save a lot of time and discover an effective approach to testing that can be applied in practice immediately!
