Challenges and opportunities in cloud testing

Cloud computing is attracting the interest of many businesses around the world by offering feasible solutions towards hosting software applications and providing convenient development and testing environments. Cloud computing has developed enormously that it changed the management practices of dealing with computer systems and services. Because of cloud computing; testing as a service (TaaS) was created. Despite the facilities provided by TaaS, it produced some issues and challenges, particularly in cloud-based testing environments. Those issues are needed to be addressed and fixed. This paper reviews and addresses a set of challenges and benefits of cloud testing among with a theoretical comparison between cloud-based testing environment and traditional testing for regular systems.