It would be difficult to find a viable company that doesn’t have any cloud migration strategy at all.
Leading-edge firms will take an all or nothing approach to this migration — insisting that all business functionality must eventually resolve into the consumption of some sort of elastic cloud, whether in a leading IaaS like AWS or Azure, or in on-premises or bespoke flavors of private cloud.
Even market laggards have a plan to move at least one application to an on-demand cloud instance — dipping a toe in the water before taking the plunge.
Businesses can accelerate development and modernize the delivery environment using cloud, but one thing never changes: Customers still expect software to function and perform as expected in production, no matter where it is deployed.
They need applications to be highly available, secure and resilient, or they will go elsewhere. That leaves test automation as a critical gating function for success.
When the cloud rate of release outpaces testing
One Global 500 financial services firm, John Hancock, recently announced launching an estimated US$142M transition project to a private cloud IaaS with cloud services provider CGI.
Make no mistake, much of that budget isn’t cloud fees, nor tooling, it’s labor. Rearchitecting enterprise applications for the cloud is obviously no small task. A daunting amount of work is required to integrate, test and continuously validate the applications, and this work is often rehashed when maintaining the tests after each release.
But that’s nothing new. Such rework costs certainly existed before cloud.
What changed? …
Read the entire article on the Parasoft blog here: https://blog.parasoft.com/cloud-applications-launch-faster.-can-test-automation-achieve-escape-velocity-too
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