The cloud marketplace has now evolved to a point where companies are completing their testing solutions and facilitating load testing in cloud-based applications. When performing cloud load testing services, you need not setup any comprehensive testing infrastructure in order to run the tests under different load levels and achieve your desired results.
Global Cloud Testing Market, 2016-2023 (USD Billion)
with CAGR rising to almost 13%
Years
Source: MRFR Analysis
Cloud Load Testing Architecture
Choosing The Cloud Load Testing Platform
Cloud VMs (such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc.) are available to execute load tests in a distributed environment. However, cloud-based load testing tools are now preferred for their ready-to-launch solutions and ease of test management.
Our team recommends considering the following when choosing a cloud testing platform:
How Is Cloud Beneficial To QA Teams?
to trigger performance tests from anywhere
Challenges With Cloud Load Testing
Load testing using cloud provides realistic performance results, but does present a few challenges. A few of these include cumbersome troubleshooting, different cloud components adding different results in tests, data security, and test result metrics being impacted due to run-time issues with load generators.
Let's discuss the best practices that will enable you to overcome these challenges.
Best Practices for Cloud Testing
- Use dockers to create identical load generators
- Include a high-performance test machine in the cloud that aids stability and accuracy of load generators
- Capacity planning will enable you to utilize minimum cloud resources and make your testing cost efficient
- Ensure that the monitoring system also applies to CDN, load generators, and firewalls for performance during tests
- Prior knowledge of cloud infrastructure is required to create an efficient environment for testing
- Have SLAs from the cloud providers for stable performance
- Ensure security at application and platform levels or run your tests on private networks to avoid any data breach
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