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Software Testing The Next Target For SaaS?
Posted on June 30th, 2009 2 commentsJohn Foley from Information Week has an article today entitled "The Cloud’s Next Big Thing: Software Testing", where he takes a look at IBM and HP, who have joined other companies in software testing in the cloud. From his article:
IBM and Hewlett-Packard have jumped into the market for software testing in the cloud, a space where a handful of startups already offer alternatives to on-premises testing. It’s an area of cloud computing where the barriers to entry are relatively low for developers and IT departments.
IBM estimates that one third to one half of computer hardware in some large companies is used for software development, testing, and staging. That’s a lot of computer processing power and expense devoted to what’s an important but non-business critical requirement. It’s the type of work, given data center economics, that might be better suited to cloud services.
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Cloud computing is well suited for software development and testing for several reasons. The model supports group collaboration; new servers can be launched and decommissioned as needed; software development projects tend to be temporary in nature, with start and end dates; and some of the governance issues don’t apply because sensitive corporate data isn’t involved. Also, cloud testing enables new approaches and capabilities, such as crowd-sourced testing.
It’s an interesting point, and it definitely makes sense, as long as reliability is there.
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