Context: Software has become more complicated, dynamic, and asynchronous than ever,
making testing more challenging. With the increasing interest in the development of cloud …

Microservices are used to build complex applications composed of small, independent and
highly decoupled processes. Recently, microservices are often mentioned in one breath with …

Performance and scalability testing and measurements of cloud-based software services are
necessary for future optimizations and growth of cloud computing. Scalability, elasticity, and …

Despite the evolution of cloud computing in recent years, the performance and
comprehensive understanding of the available private cloud tools are still under research …

Despite the fast evolution of cloud computing, up to now the characterization of cloud
workloads has received little attention. Nevertheless, a deep understanding of their …

The main feature of a cloud application is its scalability. Major IaaS cloud services providers
(CSP) employ autoscaling on the level of virtual machines (VM). Other virtualization …

This paper presents an investigation into the effect of faults on the scalability resilience of
cloud-based software services. The study introduces an experimental framework using the …

As the number of infrastructure‐as‐a‐service (IaaS) cloud offers in the market increases,
selecting an appropriate configuration of cloud resources for a given application becomes a …

Optimal placement and selection of service instances in a distributed heterogeneous cloud
is a complex trade-off between application requirements and resource capabilities that …

Cloud technology is rapidly substituting classic computing solutions, and challenges the
community with new problems. In this paper we focus on controllers for cloud application …