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1 Framework and requirements for cloud computing

Figure A.5 – Provider–peer provider relationship for use service activity

A.3 The cloud service developer–cloud service provider relationship
Cloud service developers create and package service implementations and hand them to cloud service
providers for deployment and operation. Therefore, the cloud service developer interacts with the cloud
service provider to:
1) inspect the cloud service provider's environment for service execution;

2) test service implementations;
3) hand over service implementation packages.
The development support functional components support the cloud computing activities of the cloud
service developer, including the develop service, test service and maintain service cloud computing
activities. These cloud computing activities depend on the development environment, build management
and test management functional components.
The lines in radiating from the developer environment component in Figure A.7 show that the cloud service
developer develops the implementation of a cloud service and composes the service using the development
environment functional component and then uses the build management system to build the service and its
related artefacts into a deployable package. The arrows to/from the test management functional component
indicate that the test management system performs appropriate testing against the built package, fetching
the package from the build management system and interacting with the provider's environment via the
development access functional component to deploy a test version of the service and execute the tests.

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