{"id":1503,"date":"2019-09-23T11:34:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T11:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cloudnowtech.com\/blog\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2021-10-19T10:33:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T05:03:55","slug":"testing-considerations-for-successful-cloud-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudnowtech.com\/blog\/testing-considerations-for-successful-cloud-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing considerations for successful Cloud Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once you have decided to move your business to the cloud, a comprehensive testing plan is crucial for the cloud migration\u2019s success. It will ensure that you do not face server breakdown issues, database errors and other glitches which can impede a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudnowtech.com\/blog\/a-preparatory-guide-to-cloud-migration\/\">successful migration to the cloud<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>QA Focus for Cloud Migration Success<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The main focus of cloud migration testing is on the various validations required to ensure its success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Functional Testing<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In functional validation, the production-readiness of the migrated applications is tested. A detailed analysis is performed for its various aspects and checked for SLA-compliance. To ensure the success of your cloud migration, perform end-to-end validation of the applications\u2019 functions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check whether a valid input gives the desired output.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check whether service integrations with other applications are complete.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check whether object references are working as expected.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check whether cross-platform compatibility is ensured.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Integration Testing<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ensuring your applications are integrated seamlessly with third-party applications and that the communication between them is happening without errors is an integral part of migration testing. Chalk out the dependencies between applications, and the different SLAs that each application comes with. If you are integrating multiple applications, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudnowtech.com\/cloud-migration-services.html\">cloud migration process<\/a> tends to become more complicated. Consider the following validations to simplify the process.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What interfaces and systems should be covered for integration testing?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What are the resources needed for validation and integration testing?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What plan is in place to develop and execute tests with third-party components?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How will you identify coordination problems in the cloud environment?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Several cloud providers also provide integration validation as an add-on to their services, which can help ensure error-free integration testing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Security Testing<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Initially, the biggest deterrent for organizations to move their operations to the cloud was concern over security. Backed by several advancements in the field, cloud security now comes with features that can prevent even sophisticated attacks from gaining access to your data and applications. Consider the following while you perform security validation:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ensure that your cloud network can be accessed only by authorized users.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keep in place preventive measures against common attacks, and ensure that the measures are working properly.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Validate data security at rest, in use, and during transit.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A few other aspects of security testing include data security, privacy testing, application security, and business process security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Performance Testing<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assessing the performance and response time of the applications moved to the cloud is important for determining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudnowtech.com\/cloud-migration-services.html\">cloud migration success<\/a>. This step will also help in optimizing the workload across resources. Here are a few things you need to consider while performing performance validation.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Check whether the application\u2019s architecture is supported by the cloud.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Validate response times as per SLAs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perform load testing in parallel to understand how your services perform under various load types.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite having all the help that organizations can get on paper, cloud migration is often tricky to execute and can result in more problems than benefits if executed incorrectly. Therefore, it is advisable to bring a team of testing professionals on-board for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudnowtech.com\/cloud-migration-services.html\">successful cloud migration.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At CloudNow Technologies, we provide Testing as a Service for organizations who want to make a trouble-free move to the cloud. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudnowtech.com\/contact-us.html\">Get in touch<\/a> with us to know more.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once you have decided to move your business to the cloud, a comprehensive testing plan is crucial for the cloud migration\u2019s success. 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