Module 1 - Functional Testing of Cloud Applications

• SaaS
• Pros and Cons
• Layers of Cloud Testing
• Views of Testing
• Identifying Functions to Test
• How Functions are Implemented
• Service Implementation
• Prioritizing Functions
• Testing Workflows
• Taking the Organizational View vs. Product View
• Methods
• The Relationship Between Process and Data
• Structured Testing
• Physical Items
• Physical Test Metrics
• Functions
• Metrics
• Time Budgeter
• METS iPhone App
• Agile Testing
• The Basis for Test Conditions
• Business Process Testing
• Classification Trees Using CTE-XL
• Evaluating Tests
• Characteristics of Good Incident Reports
• Incident Reporting and Tracking - Things You Need to Know
• Sample Incident Categories
• Sample Incident Priorities
• How Can This Data be Used?
• Regression Testing

Module 2 - The Role of Test Automation

• How Automation Can Help in Cloud Testing
• The Risks
• Which Functions and Tests Can be Automated?
• Tool Options

Module 3 - Testing Cloud Security

• How Important is Security?
• Cloud Security Advantages
• Security Relevant Cloud Components
• Cloud Security Risks
• Key Security Questions
• The Nature of Security Tests
• Compliance
• What are Your Compliance Requirements?
• Compliance Issues
• Data Security Risks
• Volume-based Encryption
• Application Level Encryption
• File-based Encryption
• Policy and Key Management
• The Role of SLAs
• On-premises Key Management
• Auditing
• The Threat
• The “Hardware Roof of Trust”
• Governance
• A Process for Cloud Security Testing
• Putting it Together
• Guidelines from NIST
• The Cloud Security Alliance
• Further Resources

Module 4 - Testing Cloud Performance

• Examples of Cloud Applications and Performance Concerns
• How We Got Here
• The Performance Impact of Cloud Computing
• Service Level Agreements
• Performance Through the Cloud
• Profiling Workload and Capacity Levels
• Designing Performance Tests
• Understanding Where the Traffic Goes
• Performance Test Tools
• How Cloud Performance Tools Work
• How Cloud-based Performance Tools Work
• Steps in Designing a Cloud Performance Test

Module 5 - Testing Cloud Reliability and Availability

• What Customers Expect
• The Role of Testing
• The Role of Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
• Key Point About SLAs
• What This Means
• How to Test and Monitor Reliability and Availability
• How to Measure Reliability and Availability
• You Must Decide What is Important
• Traditional Monitoring
• The Challenge: Geo Dispersed Cloud Applications
• Possible Solutions
• Unified Monitoring
• Example Dashboard
• SLA Report
   

Module 6 - Transitioning to the Cloud

• What to Consider When Transitioning Applications to the Cloud
• Understanding the Business Needs and Value
• Understand the Risks
• The Risk Watch List
• Example: Testing Risk and Return
• Example: Risk Mitigation