The low cost of resource ownership and flexibility have led users to increasingly port their
applications to the clouds. To fully realize the cost benefits of cloud services, users usually …

Cloud testing is gaining much attention in both academia and industry as an emerging
concept in the field of software testing. Cloud testing implies leveraging the resources of the …

Because performance is paramount today, this thoroughly updated guide shows you how to
test mission-critical applications for scalability and performance before you deploy them …

In this paper, we present an approach for performance testing of software services. In our
approach, we use Probabilistic Timed Automata (PTA) to model the workload of the system …

The rapid adoption and the diversification of cloud computing technology exacerbate the
importance of a sound experimental methodology for this domain. This work investigates …

Automated testing activities like automated test case generation imply a reduction in human
effort and cost, with the potential to impact the test coverage positively. If the optimal policy …

Performance is one of the important aspects of software quality. Performance issues exist
widely in software systems, and the process of fixing the performance issues is an essential …

Software Testing is a challenging activity for many software engineering projects, especially
for large scale systems. The amount of tests cases can range from a few hundred to several …

Large software systems often undergo performance tests to ensure their capability to handle
expected loads. These performance tests often consume large amounts of computing …

Context: Software has become more complicated, dynamic, and asynchronous than ever,
making testing more challenging. With the increasing interest in the development of cloud …