A short blog on the cloud based technology and it’s SWOT
And the technology weather reports are coming in. We are going to have cloudy days and the future is holding a lot of promises. But the folks down here are worried as already they are facing daunting challenges in the conventional floods of mobile devices, the web services, computability, security, portability, testability, and quality assurance of this grand mix of high tech weather phenomenon.
With clouds overcasting the horizon the future is becoming questionable for testers. For developers, this change is weather forecast is pretty much satisfactory and enjoyable. However, for testers this journey of reaching the clouds seems a bit longer. It does not mean that it testers will not reach, it just mean that the thing is under evaluation window.
Cloud technology is not new as it’s been around past 15 years. Like any other system, a cloud based system offers similar opportunities for testers to test the application, and bring out the risk areas in it.
But this technology has grown so rapidly in past 5 years that now testers are required to re-visit their methods to cope up to this evolution. Here is a usable SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis for testers:
Strengths:
- You have your previous experience of testing applications in physically built labs, complex networks, and dedicated project environments. You will use this experience of creating a more sophisticated environment using cloud and its’ resources
- There is no need for you to knock several doors for resources, now the applications, tools, and support is all available on the cloud
- There is no limit to time on cloud regarding resources availability. Use this as a strength.