>Towards Distributed Systems Testing in Cloud Environment

There exists a close relationship between cloud computing and distributed systems. In fact, Cloud computing technology brings new organizational and technological capabilities to build an underlying infrastructure for distributed systems. Therefore, even if cloud computing offers opportunities to improve productivity and reduce costs, it also introduces a number of technical challenges, especially in testing area. In this paper, we introduce concepts such as cloud computing, cloud testing and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Then, we present our distributed testing architecture for applications running in an elastic cloud computing environment using these concepts.