Cloud-Based Infrastructure for Mobile Testing as a Service

With the rapid advance of mobile computing technology and wireless networking, there is a significant increase of mobile subscriptions. This brings new business requirements and demands in mobile software testing, and causes new issues and challenges in mobile testing service. In this paper, informative and insightful discussions about cloud-based mobile testing-as-a-service (Mobile TaaS) are offered, including the essential concepts, focuses, and the expected testing infrastructures. Currently, there lack of well-defined infrastructures and approaches which allow both mobile application vendors and users to access for Mobile TaaS services. A suitable testing infrastructure is required which allows end users to submit on-demand service requests for mobile TaaS resources in order to form an infrastructure for mobile testing. Therefore, this paper introduces an approach to setup an cloud-based infrastructure as a service for Mobile TaaS for addressing the major challenges faced by test engineers in testing mobile applications. Finally, the paper reports case studies to indicate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed approach.