Continuous changes in business environment forces the organizations to innovate and optimize their business process, resulting in continuous changes in the software applications that support the business processes. As a consequence, delivering applications rapidly that are defect free, scalable, and reliable becomes challenging. Testing becomes a critical and vital step in the process - not only in terms of coverage but also in terms of performance, security and usability. Setting up test environments that closely mirror the production environment can be expensive - in terms of hardware, licenses, and people. It is a way to increase capacity or add capabilities on the fly without investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing new software.

Key benefits of Cloud based infrastructure for testing

• Instant availability of custom made testing infrastructure. Provides significant cost reduction
• Replicate production scenarios on the cloud and prevent infrastructure, time, and cost bottlenecks
• Scale as you go. Pay for what you use.
• Create a complete production scale infrastructure. Simulate live configurations to validate applications under any load of choice.
• Test multiple architectures, variables, components, and configurations easily and independently
• On demand resources enable extensive testing and faster handoff from development to operations. Go Live in a few steps

Testing is a vital phase in any software development and maintenance initiative. Frequently changing requirements coupled with a reduced development life cycle has increased the pressure on testing teams to do more with less. A dedicated test lab is one of the solutions to handle this challenge. Traditionally, to support a test lab initiative, an organization would need to put the following infrastructure/resources in place:

• Target testing environment, similar to production environment
• Multiple target software platform for compatibility testing
• Skilled professionals to design, develop, and execute test scripts; and analyze the results of the tests
• A good test automation software with multiple virtual user licenses
• Sufficient bandwidth for simulating real life scenarios
• Any other equipment required (firewall, switches, etc.) to simulate realistic environment

Cloud based 'On Demand' testing service can help organizations to address this challenge. SNS offers the following cloud based testing services to cover attributes of quality.

• System Integration [SIT] and User Acceptance Testing [UAT] ensures the developed cloud solution meets the functional Requirements
• Interoperability and Compatibility Testing ensures that migrating to alternative cloud service providers works well
• Performance and Load Testing ensures meeting the business requirements specific to cloud Computing
• Stress and Recovery Testing ensures data recovery from crashes, hardware failures in a cloud environment
• Security Testing ensures meeting the Application/Data security requirements

We have engaged with customers during different phases of testing lifecycle. To help customers enhance the quality of their product we suggest them to use our services when the specifications are being written.

SNS’s proven processes help us to define test strategy, planning, automation, and execution for each of the expert and core testing services.