TY - GEN
T1 - A cloud-based TaaS infrastructure with tools for SaaS validation, performance and scalability evaluation
AU - Gao, Jerry
AU - Manjula, K.
AU - Roopa, P.
AU - Sumalatha, E.
AU - Bai, Xiaoying
AU - Tsai, W. T.
AU - Uehara, Tadahiro
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - With the fast advancements in cloud computing and software-as-a-service (SaaS), testing and evaluation of cloud-based software and SaaS applications became an important task for engineers. Since most existing tools are not developed to support cloud-based software testing and SaaS evaluation, there is a strong demand for a new cloud-based testing infrastructure and evaluation environment for SaaS applications. This paper proposes a testing-as-service (TaaS) infrastructure and reports a cloud-based TaaS environment with tools (known as CTaaS) developed to meet the needs in SaaS testing, performance and scalability evaluation. The paper presents TaaS concepts and CTaaS, including their infrastructure, design and implementation. In addition, the paper demonstrates the application results of our previously proposed graphic models and metrics for SaaS performance and scalability evaluation. Moreover, the paper reports one case study for a selected SaaS (OrangeHRM) using the developed TaaS environment.
AB - With the fast advancements in cloud computing and software-as-a-service (SaaS), testing and evaluation of cloud-based software and SaaS applications became an important task for engineers. Since most existing tools are not developed to support cloud-based software testing and SaaS evaluation, there is a strong demand for a new cloud-based testing infrastructure and evaluation environment for SaaS applications. This paper proposes a testing-as-service (TaaS) infrastructure and reports a cloud-based TaaS environment with tools (known as CTaaS) developed to meet the needs in SaaS testing, performance and scalability evaluation. The paper presents TaaS concepts and CTaaS, including their infrastructure, design and implementation. In addition, the paper demonstrates the application results of our previously proposed graphic models and metrics for SaaS performance and scalability evaluation. Moreover, the paper reports one case study for a selected SaaS (OrangeHRM) using the developed TaaS environment.
KW - Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
KW - Testing-as-a-Service (TaaS)
KW - cloud testing
KW - performance evaluation
KW - scalability measurement
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U2 - 10.1109/CloudCom.2012.6427555
DO - 10.1109/CloudCom.2012.6427555
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84874223163
SN - 9781467345095
T3 - CloudCom 2012 - Proceedings: 2012 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science
SP - 464
EP - 471
BT - CloudCom 2012 - Proceedings
T2 - 2012 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, CloudCom 2012
Y2 - 3 December 2012 through 6 December 2012
ER -