Modern IT development entails many challenges, e.g. rapidly changing business scenarios, rising complexities, shorter time to market, limited infrastructure, and facilitating agility without compromising on quality. Even when we succeed in implementing the mechanisms and in calculating effective practices, there's a price to pay. Doing this consumes time, money, and resources. Besides, we need to increase the chances of creating value, rather than incurring costs. But, the ultimate question is: Should we bring reliable products to the market quicker and at lower prices?

If the answer is a resounding "yes" to the above question, then cloud computing and testing services may be a good option. All the benefits of the cloud service could be leveraged, if we thoroughly understand its minimum requirements, be it business, technical or legal. Unless we understand the requirements, we might end up facing challenges, such as security, reliability, privacy, availability, and performance. For this reason, organizations should focus more on rigorous testing. This is where the role of cloud testing sneaks in.

Shilpa Gangrade is an honors' in Bachelor of Computer Engineering from R.G.P.V University Bhopal. Her 4.5 years of experience includes manual, SOA and Automation testing. She has played roles like that of a module lead, SPOC for Quality Centre and related tools, training new personnel and member of Testing COE etc. She has performed testing for projects in FSI and Telecommunication domain with projects of high risk & compliance. Shilpa has received many awards and acknowledgements for her contribution to the projects & process initiator. She has a good capability of learning quickly the projects business as well as functional requirements.

Garima Joshi is a Master of Computer Application from SVIM College, Indore. She has four years of experience in STLC and is working as a business technical analyst (BTA). She has worked in SCM and content management using automation as well as manual testing. She has led the planning and pricing modules in SCM project using automation.

Dhivya Nagendran has seven years and two months of hands on experience in Manual and Automation testing. She completed her graduation in "Master of Computer Applications" from Madras University and has gained vast expertise in working with Software Testing Life Cycle, Test Management and SCM. She has led testing teams during her tenure with Deloitte Consulting India. She has worked as onsite testing coordinator at the client's location, facilitating the system testing and User Acceptance testing phases of the application.