Testing in the private cloud

Due to a requirement for increasing the development speed of new telecom services and enhancing functionalities of existing ones, telecom providers are trying shorten and automate creation of testing environments. Using cloud infrastructure installed on its own premises for that purpose opens myriad of new possibilities and gives an opportunity to improve traditional development process. In this paper we will provide an overview of our approach for creating testing environments in the private cloud using open source solutions that works on top of the OpenStack cloud infrastructure. The overview will include description of the approach related to the existing development process, high level architecture and requirements for successful implementation of the presented approach.