Bindu Laxminarayan

Rackspace

Bindu Laxminarayan is an ISTQB Advanced Level Certified Tester with experience in testing various products related to hosting solutions, retail, airlines, and security domains. She has experience in testing cloud applications, web applications and services, APIs-DLL, installation and de-installation, application features, and websites along with testing desktop and network-based applications on various operating systems. The designer of several automation testing frameworks, Bindu is well-versed in a number of automation tools and has experience in performance testing for cloud applications. Bindu’s interests include root cause analysis, implementing strategies to achieve best quality, improving QA processes, and testing large scale systems.

Speaker Presentations

Wednesday, June 5, 2013 - 2:15pm

Cloud Computing

Testing Cloud-Based Applications: What’s Different, What’s the Same

Cloud platforms are being rapidly adopted because of their beneficial properties including scalability, multi-tenancy, and self-managed functionality. As a result, more and more organizations are moving applications and services from traditional hosting to the cloud. This change in platform architecture introduces new challenges for testing—data integrity, authentication, and authorization. After presenting an overview of cloud architecture, Bindu Laxminarayan discusses how testing traditional applications differs from testing applications hosted on private, public, and hybrid clouds.