{"id":2517,"date":"2015-07-07T10:05:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T10:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gallop.net\/blog\/?p=565"},"modified":"2022-07-28T13:55:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T08:25:37","slug":"testing-the-smac-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/testing-the-smac-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing the Social Mobile Analytics and Cloud (SMAC) Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"
SMAC<\/strong> stands for Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud<\/em><\/strong>, <\/em>and today\u2019s enterprise business innovations are being truly driven by it. SMAC creates an ecosystem that allows social media management activities to better reach and interact with customers. Mobile technologies have changed the way people communicate and interact with each other. The analytics part of SMAC allows businesses to deeply analyse and understand customer behaviour and their response patterns better, so as to take corrective actions for improving the relationship. Cloud computing provides a new way to access technology anywhere,\u00a0anytime making possible for businesses and customers to access the data in these ever changing erratic markets.<\/p>\n Business eco-system changes are inevitable; the IT industry has been witnessing new innovations which have changed the way IT services are being delivered to the enterprise users. This may likely be called as the Next generation of corporate makeover shift through a new responsive IT architecture composed of Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud technologies.<\/p>\n In view of the value that each area adds to the business, their combination becomes more viable and potent as it also promises minimal overhead costs. Thus today\u2019s enterprises are strategically deploying the SMAC Stack across key business processes to combine the best of virtual and physical retail shopping experiences. Moreover, most enterprises wish to take a phased approach to migrate their businesses completely to the SMAC platforms, keeping budgets and their current state of business in view.<\/p>\n In all Industries across the business landscape, the SMAC concept has changed traditional age old structure of value chains and spawning newness and landing in virtualized business models. The power of this technology platform is in treating it as a stack as its components have a multiplying effect when they work in combination. Now a customer\u2019s mobile device can signal & store while they\u2019re shopping and thus customers can compare products, get information, and redeem targeted offers from the Cloud while in store. They can then share the offers to their friends through the Social platforms. The mobile technologies have changed the way people communicate, shop and work. Mobile devices have enhanced customer\u2019s reach to information from various sources. Mobile applications will help businesses reach these customers and interact with them at a more personal level.<\/p>\n According to one of the Gartner Analysis Reports, it is stated that by 2020, nearly 30 billion connected devices<\/a> with unique IP addresses will exist. This list includes smartphones, tablets, connected televisions and wearable devices that are all responsible to generate data. With this expansion spree all around, the concept of SMAC concept is bound to dominate the scenario all around.<\/p>\n With the advent and emergence of social platforms, mobile, analytics, and cloud, the outlook towards testing this congruence of four objectives has become very positive and is leading to the emergence of a comprehensive testing fold. Testing Service providers consider that these four technologies have to be implemented in a stack to be successful, and as a result have crafted a new business centric strategic testing approach to achieve it. The industry is striving to develop better testing algorithms to process the right and relevant SMAC data faster. The aspects of social concepts are also driving the way software is being built at every phase of development, testing and further maintenance.<\/p>\n The common testing techniques for all the four ranges include Security, Functional, Performance and Usability testing.<\/strong><\/p>\n Social Networking Testing Range:<\/strong><\/p>\n Mobile Testing Range:<\/strong><\/p>\n Test Analytics<\/strong> usually consists of Failover mechanisms while Cloud Testing<\/strong> includes Compatibility testing, Latency testing, Browser performance testing, Latency testing, Capacity testing, Fail-over testing, Scalability testing, and so on.<\/p>\n Adding to the mix continuous delivery and lean processes, it then becomes really important to automate most pieces such as data generation, data validation, security among others to achieve a quicker time to market.<\/p>\nNeed for the Evolution of SMAC Concept<\/h4>\n
Mobile Revolution<\/h4>\n
Benefits of SMAC Technology<\/h4>\n
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Gartner Analysis on Connected Devices Expansion Dimensions across the Globe<\/h4>\n
SMAC Testing \u2013 An Outlook<\/h4>\n
Below are listed a set of testing methods for SMAC approach:<\/h4>\n
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