Automating Cloud Services Life Cycle through Semantic Technologies

Automating Threat Modeling through the Software Development Life-Cycle

Fixing software security issues early in the development life-cycle reduces its cost dramatically. Companies doing software development know this reality, and they have introduced risk assessment methodologies in their development processes. Unfortunately, these methodologies require engineers to have deep software security skills to carry out some of the most important steps of this process, a...

Automating Compliance for Cloud Computing Services

We present an integrated approach for automating service providers’ compliance with data protection laws and regulations, business and technical requirements in cloud computing. The techniques we propose in particular include: natural-language analysis (of legislative and regulatory texts, and corporate security rulebooks) and extraction of enforceable rules, use of sticky policies, automated p...

SLA Life Cycle Automation and Management for Cloud Services

Automating Software Testing: A Life-Cycle Methodology

Elfriede Dustin currently works as a test manager at BNA Software (www.bnasoftware.com) in Washington, DC. She is a SQA Certified test engineer and has supported test efforts for a multitude of applications. In support of software test efforts, Elfriede has been responsible for implementing automated test, or has performed as the lead consultant guiding the implementation of automated software ...

Little Support for Elasticity through the Cloud Software Life Cycle

W ith its attractive pay-per-use model and the opportunities it provides for flexible resource scaling, cloud computing is increasingly the go-to choice for developing and deploying software. In recent years, various multi tiered applications and data analytics workflows have been successfully ported to the cloud, proving that the cloud can greatly simplify the software development life cycle w...