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Testing in the Cloud: Balancing the Value and Risks of Cloud Computing

Testing in the Cloud: Balancing the Value and Risks of Cloud Computing

Randall W. Rice
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 13
ISBN13: 9781466625365|ISBN10: 1466625368|EISBN13: 9781466625372
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2536-5.ch019
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Rice, Randall W. "Testing in the Cloud: Balancing the Value and Risks of Cloud Computing." Software Testing in the Cloud: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline, edited by Scott Tilley and Tauhida Parveen, IGI Global, 2013, pp. 404-416. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2536-5.ch019

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Rice, R. W. (2013). Testing in the Cloud: Balancing the Value and Risks of Cloud Computing. In S. Tilley & T. Parveen (Eds.), Software Testing in the Cloud: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline (pp. 404-416). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2536-5.ch019

Chicago

Rice, Randall W. "Testing in the Cloud: Balancing the Value and Risks of Cloud Computing." In Software Testing in the Cloud: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline, edited by Scott Tilley and Tauhida Parveen, 404-416. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2536-5.ch019

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Abstract

Cloud-based applications offer great value and benefits to businesses and other application consumers. However, unlike traditional in-house developed systems or commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) applications, the customer has little or no control over when and how functionality may change. The cloud consumer also has little or no control over how the data controlled by the application is processed, stored, and secured. This chapter explores how the testing of cloud applications is fundamentally different from other contexts where the customer has a greater degree of control. The limitations of risk mitigation are discussed as well as cloud computing models that may also reduce the cloud consumer’s risk.

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