Cloud Testing: Requirements, Tools and Challenges

Cloud Computing is a technology which gives computation, software, data and storage services over the network. The software industry is laying increased emphasis on Quality Assurance (QA) and Testing requirements for successful product development today. To ensure a high level of security of cloud services and applications, testing is an appropriate approach to detect possible vulnerabilities before real case scenarios occur. Therefore, many public cloud providers revealed the growing number of Testing Centre of Excellence (COE) and software test automation being encouraged by companies.This paper presents a critical review of cloud security testing. Moreover, gaps in recent related publications are revealed, testing tools and offers of software test automation. The prospective research implications are pointed out to foster the understanding and relations of current research fields.