Quality and the Cloud: Realities and Costs

Testing organizations want to take advantage of the cost savings of cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). However, many jump in without really understanding whether or not cloud or SaaS will actually produce a cost savings to their organization. Clint Sprauve helps you dissect cloud computing and SaaS, and calculate their true costs and benefits from a test perspective. Clint describes in detail how to estimate the total cost of both technologies for the different quality drives, including requirements management, test management, functional testing, performance testing, and continuous build-integration. He provides recommendations and best practices for implementing a cloud strategy for your test organization. Clint discusses the organizational dynamics and methodologies-agile, traditional, waterfall-that determine the cloud computing needs and impediments for test and development teams.