Cloud computing is everywhere, inevitable: originally a layered abstraction of an heterogeneous environment, it has become the paradigm of a large-scale data-oriented system. And while it has some interesting features (easy deployment of applications, resiliency, security, performance, scalability, elasticity, etc.), testing its robustness and its reliability is a major challenge. The Cloud is an intricate collection of interconnected and virtualised computers, connected services, complex service-level agreements. From a testing perspective, the Cloud is then a complex composition of complex systems, and one can wonder whether anything like a global testing is possible? But if the answer is no, what can we conclude from partial tests? The question of testing this large, network-based, dynamic, composition of computers, virtual machines, servers, services, SLAs, seems particularly difficult.
The following is a broad list of topics of interest when referring to distributed testing, or cloud testing:
We are delighted to announce that Prof Mark Grechanik has been confirmed as a keynote speaker at TTC 2014.
We are delighted to announce that John Penix from Google and Varad Rajulu from IBM have been confirmed as keynote speakers for TTC.
Workshop Sponsored by The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre (LERO)
The support of Lero is gratefully aknowledged.