For some time, cloud computing has been moving from beyond a purely IT-owned paradigm to a more readily accepted part of how different business units achieve their end goals. Application development is no exception.

Product managers and application architects have been at the forefront of this mass adoption, utilizing cloud infrastructure resources to dramatically improve the way applications are developed, tested, and launched.

But for agile development methodologies, cloud presents an opportunity for businesses to maximize software testing.

Firewall considerations

Cloud’s direct benefit to programmers depends greatly on the type of methodology they are employing. One of the key components to agile development is getting instant feedback from customers. If a customer is outside your firewall, you have to enable them to access the application in your environment through an outside server or allowing them a connection into your private network. In traditional IT organizations, this set up process …