Reduction of costs has always been a ‘magical sentence’ for CxO’s. That’s one of the reasons why cloud are becoming so popular. But how can we measure this cost reduction? Well, I came across this post on the Infosys blog. It tries to calculate the Return on Investment (ROI) for cloud computing, but from an [...]

The growth of Cloud-based computing is outstripping even the most optimistic predictions. That growth is based on a compelling value proposition: speed to market, agility to bring forward or retire service, and the chance to move expenditure from Capital Expenses to Operational Expenses (CapEx  to OpEx).  For software testing, the Cloud also offers a range [...]

A performance test is usually done at the end of the test phase. This because of the need of a well enough performing environment. The environment that is most production-like is the acceptance environment. This creates a risk in applications that are highly dependent on a high performance, because the defects are found late in [...]