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This course teaches how to test services and applications that are cloud-based. You will learn what makes cloud technology unique to testers, and how to best assure the quality of computing you receive from cloud-based applications. The lessons are reinforced with hands-on exercises.You will gain understanding of cloud technologies and architecture, learn the two major perspectives of cloud testing the provider and the consumer views, and learn where best to focus your efforts.Cloud computing raises important questions for testers, such as: What can reasonably be tested? Where should we focus testing efforts? Which testing techniques and tools are most effective? Which risks can testing help reduce?This course takes about 10 hours to complete, including exercises. The narrated slide shows total 7 hours.

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Module 1 - Introduction

• Course Objectives
• What is Cloud Computing?
- The NIST Definition
- Gartner Definition
• Characteristics of Cloud Computing
• Not a Unified View
• Your View of Cloud Computing
• The Key Players
• Interactions Between Cloud Computing Actors
• What Cloud Brokers Do
• Five Main Principles of Cloud Computing
• Benefits
• Risks
• Types of Clouds
- Public Clouds
- Private Clouds
- Community Clouds
- Hybrid Clouds
- Vertical Clouds
• Cloud Reference Model
• Major Service Patterns
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
• An Example
• Example Services Available to a Cloud Consumer
• Major Activities of Cloud Providers
• Other Service Patterns
• Scope of Controls Between Provider and Consumer
• The Role of Virtualization
• Extending SOA
• Cloud Service Management
• The Importance of Testing
• What This Means to Testers
- What Can we Test?
- What Should we Test?
- How Can we Test?

Module 2 - Defining Your Cloud Test Strategy

• Why a Test Strategy?
• Key Test Planning Components
• What to Include
– The Cloud Computing Goals And Strategy For Your Organization
– Purposes of Testing
• Cloud consumer
• To validate business processes
• To verify service levels are met
• Performance, scalability, etc.
• To find defects (secondary)
• To verify security measures are appropriate and effective
• To select the right products and providers
• Cloud provider:
• To verify service levels are met
• Performance, scalability, etc.
• To find defects
• To verify security measures are appropriate and effective
– Scope
– Risks and Critical Success Factors
– Tools and Techniques
– Roles and Responsibilities
– Assumptions and Constraints
– Levels and Types of Testing
– Measurements
• Knowing How Much to Test – The Extent of Testing
• How to Define a Cloud Test Strategy
• Example
• Exercise

Module 3 - Test Environments

• Requirements for Test Environments
• Extending Virtual Environments
• Characteristics of Cloud Test Environments
• The Role of Virtual Test Environments
• OpenStack Initiative
- OpenStack Compute
• Three Major Platforms
• Major Virtual Environment Vendors and Platforms
• Example – Cross-Platform Browser Testing
• Designing Test Environments
• Managing and Controlling Test Environments
• Variations
• Exercise – Designing a Sample Cloud Test Environment

Module 4 - Functional Testing of Cloud Applications

• Examples
• SaaS
• Pros and Cons
• Layers of Cloud Testing
• Views of Testing
• Identifying Functions to Test
• How Functions are Implemented
• Service Implementation
• Prioritizing Functions
• Testing Workflows
• Taking the Organizational View vs. Product View
• Methods
- Data-driven testing
- Interoperability testing
- Usability testing
- Test optimization
• The Relationship Between Process and Data
• Structured Testing
- Top-Down Test Planning & Design
- Structured Test Case Design
- Functional Decomposition with FreeMind
- Minimal Essential Test Strategy (METS)
• Physical Items
• Physical Test Metrics
• Functions
• Metrics
• Time Budgeter
• METS iPhone App
• Agile Testing
- Agile Testing Cycles vs. Traditional Testing Cycles
- The Goals of Agile Testing
- Benefits of Agile Testing
- Characteristics of Agile Testing
- Dealing with Change
- Test-Driven Development (TDD)
- Dealing With the Downsides of Agile Methods
• The Basis for Test Conditions
• Business Process Testing
• Classification Trees Using CTE-XL
• Evaluating Tests
• Characteristics of Good Incident Reports
• Incident Reporting and Tracking - Things You Need to Know
• Sample Incident Categories
• Sample Incident Priorities
• How Can This Data be Used?
• Regression Testing
- What is Regression Testing?
- The Process
- Issues
- How Much is Enough?
- Tip
• Exercise – Design Functional Tests
• Exercise – Perform Functional Tests

Module 5 - The Role of Test Automation

• How Automation Can Help in Cloud Testing
• The Risks
• Which Functions and Tests Can be Automated?• Tool Options
- Commercial Tools
- Open Source Tools
- Free and Cheap Tools
- Scripting
• Exercise – Evaluate Test Tools

Module 6 - Testing Cloud Security

• How Important is Security?
• Cloud Security Advantages
• Security Relevant Cloud Components
• Cloud Security Risks
• Key Security Questions
• The Nature of Security Tests
• Compliance
• What are Your Compliance Requirements?
• Compliance Issues
• Data Security Risks
- Testing Cloud Data Security
- Authentication
- Testing Authentication
- Encryption
• Volume-based Encryption
• Application Level Encryption
• File-based Encryption
• Policy and Key Management
• The Role of SLAs
• On-premises Key Management
- What to Test
• Auditing
• The Threat
• The “Hardware Roof of Trust”
• Governance
• A Process for Cloud Security Testing
• Putting it Together
• Guidelines from NIST
• The Cloud Security Alliance
• Further Resources
• Exercise – Design Security Tests

Module 7 - Testing Cloud Performance

• Examples of Cloud Applications and Performance Concerns
• How We Got Here
• The Performance Impact of Cloud Computing
• Service Level Agreements
- Non-negotiable Agreements
- Negotiable Agreements
• Performance Through the Cloud
• Profiling Workload and Capacity Levels
• Designing Performance Tests
• Understanding Where the Traffic Goes
• Performance Test Tools
• How Cloud Performance Tools Work
• How Cloud-based Performance Tools Work
• Steps in Designing a Cloud Performance Test
• Exercise – Design and Perform a Cloud Security Test

Module 8 - Testing Cloud Reliability and Availability

• What Customers Expect
• The Role of Testing
• The Role of Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
• Key Point About SLAs
• What This Means
• How to Test and Monitor Reliability and Availability
• How to Measure Reliability and Availability
• You Must Decide What is Important
• Traditional Monitoring
• The Challenge: Geo Dispersed Cloud Applications
• Possible Solutions
• Unified Monitoring
• Example Dashboard
• SLA Report
• Exercise – Assess Reliability and Availability Using Monitored Data

Module 9 - Testing Mobile Computing

• Understanding the Marketplace
- Money for Apps?
- Why Mobile Apps?
- Why a “Mobile Cloud”?
• Major Quality Issues in Mobile
• Example – Mobile Application
• Example – Mobile Web Site + Mobile App
• Usability
• Three Categories of Mobile Devices
• Factors for Mobile Computing Quality
• App Testing Functional Correctness
• Mobile Site Functional Testing
• Testing Interoperability
• Testing Device Compatibility
• Testing Mobile Usability
• Diminishing Returns in Usability Testing
• Testing and Monitoring Mobile Performance
• Testing Mobile Security
• OWASP Top 10 Mobile Risks
• Dynamic Analysis
• Static Analysis
• Mobile Security Test Tools
• Mobile Test Tools
• Simulators
• The Role of Test Automation
• Exercise – Designing Mobile Tests

Module 10 - Transitioning to the Cloud

• What to Consider When Transitioning Applications to the Cloud
• Understanding the Business Needs and Value
- Understand the Risks
• The Risk Watch List
• Example: Testing Risk and Return
• Example: Risk Mitigation
- Have a Cloud Transition Strategy
- Understand the Skills and Experience Needed
- Define Governance Methods
- Get the Architecture in Place
- Decide Which Platforms are to be Transitioned
- Understand Which measures define success.
- How Testing Can Help Measure the Success of Cloud Computing
• Exercise – Define a Cloud Transition Plan

Module 11 - Summary

• Top Ten Points
• Questions and Answers

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