Migrating Load Testing to the Cloud: A Case Study

Cloud computing has emerged as a new paradigm for the delivery of computing resources. It brings great opportunities to software testing, especially to load testing. In this paper, we focus on migrating conventional load testing tools to the cloud, for which the two significant issues are about multi-tenancy and load simulating resource management. We propose a four layer model for cloud-based load testing, along with the approach of test request admission control and scheduling to solve these issues. We carried out a concrete case study on our proposed approach and made the efficiency of cloud-based load testing shown successfully by two contrast experiments.