Critical influential factors for software testing-as-a-service adoption: preliminary findings from systematic literature review

Software applications are currently becoming complex, dynamic, distributed, and component-based therefore, giving birth to a number of emerging challenges for the testing department. To cope with these emerging challenges employing Cloud Computing technology would be the best choice. However, moving software testing to the CC environment is not free of cost, nor it is the best possible solution for all testing problems. To guide decision maker on the adoption of CC for software testing, this study makes a significant input to the existing literature on the CC adoption in the context of software testing and can be considered the base for future research in the stated field. Specifically, this study discusses the necessary and sufficient condition for software testing in the Cloud. To guide software development organization for cloud-based testing adoption, this study identifies a list of factors using systematic literature review (SLR).