Cloud computing is an emerging phenomenon that offers enormous advantages, such as shorter time to market, flexible computing capabilities and limitless power, but the cloud market, still in a very early stage, continues to grow and evolve. But cloud computing is much more than technology, cutting costs or getting more agile. The cloud model is [...]

Have you ever had the problem to setup a test environment? Or, even worse, to change the configuration of that environment? At a client I wanted to upgrade the test environment to match the storage capacity with the production environment. We were testing output documentation for customers and the client had a penalty by law [...]

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 [...]