{"id":8740,"date":"2013-08-28T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2771703"},"modified":"2013-08-28T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T16:27:00","slug":"why-test-in-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/why-test-in-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Test in the Cloud?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud services have really captured the imagination. According to a Gartner survey 71% of organizations have adopted SaaS (Software as a Service) within the last three years. Quality Assurance teams, however, seem to have missed the boat, barely leveraging the benefits of the cloud. While enterprises and their so-called \u201cQA Verified\u201d software may be cloud-based, Test Management itself generally isn\u2019t.<br \/>\nThe benefits a cloud-based approach brings are plentiful and are particularly pertinent for QA teams. Top of the list for most companies adopting SaaS is the cost-savings. The ability to eradicate setup and ongoing maintenance costs for your QA toolset and data storage is most welcome. Working via a browser means no special software\/hardware overhead. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2771703\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud services have really captured the imagination. According to a Gartner survey 71% of organizations have adopted SaaS (Software as a Service) within the last three years. Quality Assurance teams, however, seem to have missed the boat, barely leveraging the benefits of the cloud. While enterprises and their so-called &ldquo;QA Verified&rdquo; software may be cloud-based, Test Management itself generally isn&rsquo;t.<br \/>\nThe benefits a cloud-based approach brings are plentiful and are particularly pertinent for QA teams. Top of the list for most companies adopting SaaS is the cost-savings. The ability to eradicate setup and ongoing maintenance costs for your QA toolset and data storage is most welcome. Working via a browser means no special software\/hardware overhead. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2771703\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}