Using Grid Computing for Distributed Software Testing

Grid computing, which is characterized by largescale sharing and collaboration of dynamic resources, has quickly become a mainstream technology in distributed computing. In this article, we present a grid-based software testing framework, which takes advantage of the large-scale and cost-efficient computational grid resources as a software testing testbed to support automated large-scale and complicated software test. Within this test framework, a dynamic bag-of-tasks model is used to manage test suites on the grid. Grid workflow is used to accommodate various test units within the software test task. Overall, we expect that the grid-based unit test framework can significantly reduce test cost in complex software systems and accelerate the software testing process.