Chapter 7. Testing, deployment, and operations in the cloud

Contributed by Patrick Lightbody []

Patrick is the founder of BrowserMob, a cloud-based website monitoring and load testing service provider. He is also the founder of OpenQA and a core contributor to Selenium, a popular open-source browser-testing framework. You can learn more about Patrick and his company at http://browsermob.com or by emailing him at patrick@browsermob.com.

This chapter covers

  • How the typical software deployment model is improved by the cloud
  • Using the cloud to improve development, testing, and operations
  • Using parallelization for testing in all forms

The process of testing software is, and likely always will be, inherently a spiky activity. Companies aren’t ...

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