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© BJSS Limited 2011 Commercial in Confidence
Testing as a Service (TaaS)
Presentation to BCS SiGIST - 13
th
December 2011
Jonathon Lee Wright - Innovation & Automation
Presentation - http://TestingAsAservice.info
Blog - http://TaaaS.net
LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/in/automation
The current economic climate is making companies
review their approach to IT even more closely.
Existing technologies of virtualisation, business process
modelling, cloud based test automation tools and rapid
and easy internet access allow for the development of
approaches that allow companies to order testing as a
service and pay only for what they use.
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Approach Traditional TaaS
Supported Methodologies
(Agile/XP/SCRUM/RUP/Waterfall)
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Test Environments
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(manually created)
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(on demand)
Test Assets (Manual/Automated)
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(manually generated)
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(dynamic)
Test Data
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(manually generated)
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(dynamic sanitised)
Test Tools
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(manually purchased)
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(on demand)
Test Documentation
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(manually generated)
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(dynamic)
Business Domain Knowledge
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(manually extracted)
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(dynamic)
Testing as a Service: Approach
“... the prediction that 60% of the average enterprise
will have 60% of its applications in the cloud.”
- Karl Flinders, Computer Weekly (19/10/2011)
Not every Solution Under Test (SUT) is suitable
Technology
Process
People
People, Process & the Power of Cloud Technologies
Testing in the Cloud
Technology: Cloud Power
New Challenges & Opportunities?
and/or
A match made
in heaven?
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