Cloud computing provides us ‘COMPUTING’ as a utility. It will transform the IT services and make it more attractive as a service (more popularly known as SAAS model). The hardware landscape will also change based on the requirement of cloud infrastructure. As a whole, the computing and usage of software and hardware is going to change in a big way in the world of cloud computing. It will give more agility in terms of software applications and hardware infrastructure.
Performance testing, load testing, tuning and monitoring in the cloud environment are the buzzwords nowadays. The performance in general refers to the application’s response time, throughput, resource utilization etc.
Cloud computing is maturing day by day and the cloud infrastructure is the single largest computing infrastructure exists today. Most of the web based applications and apps are being deployed in the cloud for various advantages. The single most important factor is the scalability of the application. 应用部署在云环境需要时可以使用的数千台电脑的电源. As a result, 应用程序的性能显著增加和客户忠诚度保持完好.
因此，性能和负载测试是所有托管在云环境中的应用至关重要.
Web应用程序和移动应用程序, 主要的挑战是要同时测试的内部应用程序 (在内部运行) 和面向客户的应用 (这是在生产运行). 基于云的性能和负载测试工具在这里起着重要的作用. 使用云的方法, 的内部和生产应用可以很容易地进行测试.
让我们来看看基于云的性能测试的特点.
- In general, a small subset of production application and data set is tested in an internal testing environment. Cloud performance testing infrastructure supports the exact scaling, as it appears in real production environment. As a result, it gives the actual performance report (considering the real traffic) instead of a subset of users.
- Cloud based performance and load testing supports global scaling. So the testing is done considering the actual number of concurrent users from multiple geographies.
- Cloud based performance testing tools not only verifies testing/staging applications, but also the production applications. Because, only the production environment is having the exact number of servers, users, data sets etc. So, testing the performance in the production environment is the biggest advantage of cloud testing.
Now we know the cloud performance testing details and its characteristics. Different monitoring tools validate the performance of your web and mobile applications. It provides cloud performance testing environment, where the infrastructure elasticity is ensured with application scaling.
