cloud-based testing has several unique advantages :
Scalable — Cloud computing allows testers to increase or decrease computing resources fast. This is useful in cases when the customer frequently changes their business requirements.
Cost-efficient — In cloud computing, you pay only for the resources you use. This means there’s no need to invest in purchasing, maintaining, and upgrading expensive equipment. You can have all the software and hardware you might need at your disposal while only paying for it when you actually use it.
Properly configured test environment — It usually takes much time to properly set up a test environment on multiple devices. Moreover, any errors made during environment configuration can be repeated across all devices. Fortunately, you can avoid this by using cloud-based tools that have been preconfigured by their provider, saving your time and money. You can also combine various testing environments and customize them to achieve the best possible result.
Comprehensive — In order to conduct comprehensive testing, the test team needs to run an application on all possible devices that support different platforms, operating systems, and browsers. Cloud-based testing provides you with all these devices and configurations, eliminating the need to purchase all of them.
Improved team collaboration — Cloud-based testing allows software companies to include DevOps in their workflows because it requires collaboration between developers and testers. In the cloud, testers can spin up test environments with different configurations and data, automate testing processes, integrate with development tools to provide feedback fast, and get help from DevOps in setting up tools.