This paper will focus on the best practices followed by the industry leaders across the following key focus areas: Organization, Process, Methodology, Tools, Infrastructure, and Operating Model.

The paper will examine the best practices in each of these focus areas and will also details the common errors that organizations commonly commit.

Some of the key aspects that will be covered are:
1. Trends on "Testing on the cloud" and "Testing for the cloud"
2. New trends that are evolving like performance testing in cloud, functional regression testing
3. How best practice organizations select the tool and infrastructure they need to invest in
4. Metrics for measuring the effectiveness of cloud testing service

Finally, the paper will detail a methodology to analyze the current maturity of the cloud testing organization in order to determine the best steps forward.