The fundamental challenges in a cloud computing testing environment are related to the cloud service.

The most pertinent challenge most organisations face is availability of prompt services without any undue delays as they are largely concerned about availing the service, rather than maintaining local installations.

Cloud services should look and feel like local services instead of coming off as remote services. Another important challenge is the cloud service assurance. The cloud service provider must ensure appropriate and timely delivery of data communications between the service itself and corporate users. It outlines both cost savings and power efficiency to scalable cloud service delivery utilising high end servers, virtualisation and high-tech interfaces.

Here are a few more issues and challenges that might be of concern in cloud computing:

Security Challenges

As information has to be constantly transferred over the internet, testers need to ensure that there is no data leak when information is sent or received. The most important challenge here is keeping confidential data secure. Problems like slow internet speed, sudden failure of service and virus attacks may occur.

To make sure that all security threats are neutralised, testers might often use customer data to ensure efficiency of security protocols. Special precautions should be taken in cases where organisations are not allowed to provide customer data to third party service providers. Other challenges might also include the lack of knowledge on part of cloud testing service regarding security requirements for government agencies such as continuous monitoring and maintenance of inventories.

Challenges With Layered Testing

Another challenge is testing at multiple layers of the cloud environment, the most important being with the layered testing protocols.

Here, the testing network connection, database and software application and server performance adds multiple layers to cloud testing. Testers need to be able to test beyond what they can physically control in the environment.

Another challenge that arises here is maintaining communications between layers. In this, testers have to analyse the communication between the layers and simultaneously plan of the risks like connection breaks, software crashes and server downtimes.

The growth of cloud computing has created a demand for benchmarks that can help keep track of the performance characteristics of cloud based applications. If you are looking for a testing team that is equipped with viable strategies to mitigate the risks and issues associated with cloud computing, get in touch with Lean Security today.