that could be spent building new features; changing the software itself will cost even more money. Renting servers will create an ongoing expense. And, at a hundred computers at a time, a command-line mistake found overnight could cost a fair bit of money.
The Bottom Line
We don't need to rewrite all of our applications for testers to start seeing value from cloud computing. If you have to support multiple browsers, you could start today. At the same time, if you want to make a bigger move into cloud computing, you can—you'll just have to pay for it.
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About the author
Matthew Heusser is a consulting software tester and software process naturalist, who has spent his entire adult life developing, testing, and managing software projects. He has served as the lead organizer of the Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference, organized a workshop on technical debt, and taught information systems at Calvin College. Matthew blogs at Creative Chaos, is a contributing editor to Software Test & Quality Assurance magazine, and is on the board of directors of the Association for Software Testing. Matthew recently served as lead editor for How to Reduce the Cost of Software Testing (Taylor and Francis, 2011). Follow Matthew on Twitter at @mheusser or email him at matt@xndev.com.
