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Classify Performance Tests: IVECTRAS 2007-08-03 09:17:21 I have struggled for over 7 years now with first figuring out and then trying to explain all the different "types" of performance tests. You know the ones:
Performance
Test
Load Test
Stress Test
Spike Test
Endurance Test
Reliability Test
Component Test
Configuration Test
{insert your favorite word} Test
Hourly Rant... 2007-07-30 22:50:27 I just finished answering a question posted on LinkedIn by Esther Schindler in researching a article she is working on for CIO.com
She asks (summarized):
"There's just one question to answer: If you could get the (client) boss(es) to understand JUST ONE THING about computer consulting and contracting, what would it be?
Or, to put the same question another way: If you were given a single wish of something to change (about a current or past client) what would it be?"
WOPR Public Meeting: April 12, 2007, Boston 2007-04-12 01:47:01 1st Workshop on Performance and Reliability (WOPR) Public
Meeting
April
12, 2007 6:00pm – 9:00pm
MITRE CENTER 2C130
Paradigm Shifts in Performance Testing: Evolution or Revolution?
New Tools = Changing Paradigm.
With all the high powered commercial tools available, Open Source tools still have a role.
Its not performance or functional testing, but combined performance and functional testing.
Agile Performance Testing is different.
Is performance testing gaining importance and relevance in IT?
Is there increased collaboration with Operations? Is it resulting in better tuning & capacity planning? Read more:Boston
Five Questions with Jon Bach, an interview by Michael Hunter (The Braidy Tester) 2007-03-30 16:39:49 I met Jon about 3 years ago. It was a funny story, actually. I was at STAREast talking with a bunch of folks at the bar after the last presentation of the day. Some guy came over and introduced himself to the person sitting next to me.
I heard his name and I stopped, mid-word, stood up excitedly, started shaking his hand and talking a mile-a- minute...
(Scott) "OhMyGod! Jon Bach! I'mSoExcitedToMeetYou! IReadYourBookAnd... I'm sorry, my name is Scott Barber, I've done some work with your brother..." Read more:Five Questions
, Hunter
, interview
, Michael
, Tester
New Performance Testing Guidance Avaliable 2007-02-12 16:53:55 I am involved in Microsoft's Patterns & Practices PerformanceTesting
Guidance project. We have reached a critical mass with regards to our "mostly final" content and have made that content publicly available at the following URL http://www.codeplex.com/PerfTesting
The team includes some of the original members from Improving .NET Application Performance as well as some new faces. We're tackling various flavors of performance testing (stress, load, capacity) as well as how to bake performance testing into your life cycle. We're also tackling how to use VS.NET 2005 for effective performance testing. Read more:Avaliable
What Best Practices really are. -- CIO Article 2006-11-20 10:18:29 Of all the places I expected to find an article supporting the fact that Best Practices is nothing more than a square on someone's buzz-word bingo card, CIO wasn't it.
The highlights are these...
Using celebs for endorsements has become such best practice that everyone does it. So what is best practice about it? Nothing. The phrase is simply a demonstration of how cliched business language dresses up the concept of copying something someone else has done. And when lots of companies copy the copier, it becomes dull, intellectually stagnant and offers no competitive advantage. It's just a me-too strategy executed by the cynical, the lazy, or the lazy cynics. Read more:Article
Model Workloads for Performance Testing: FIBLOTS 2007-08-25 17:44:04 This is the third installment of a currently unknown number of posts about heuristics and mnemonics I find valuable when teaching and conducting performance testing.
Other posts about performance testing heuristics and mnemonics are:
Installment 1 - PerformanceTesting
Core Principles: CCD IS EARI
Installment 2 - Classify Performance Tests: IVECTRAS
For years, I have championed the use of production logs to create workload models for performance testing. During the same period, I've been researching and experimenting with methods to quickly create "good enough" workload models without empirical data that increase the value of the performance tests. I recently realized that these two ideas are actually complimentary, not exclusionary, and that with or without empirical usage data from production logs, I do the same thing, I:
FIBLOTS.
Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications 2007-08-30 15:01:11 We released the final version of our patterns & practices PerformanceTesting
Guidance for Web Applications
. This guide provides an end-to-end approach for implementing performance testing. Whether you're new to performance testing or looking for ways to improve your current performance-testing approach, you will gain insights that you can tailor to your specific scenarios. The main purpose of the guide is to be a relatively stable backdrop to capture, consolidate and share a methodology for performance testing. Even though the topics addressed apply to other types of applications, we focused on explaining from a Web application perspective to maintain consistency and to be relevant to the majority of our anticipated readers.
Download the guide
Read the guide online
Stay tuned for a link to purchase the print version due to be available in early Oct.
From The Web: "Noncertified IT pros earn more..." 2007-10-23 09:48:40 Stop the presses! Can it be true? The industry wants effective, qualified, multi-dimensional people who are capable of understanding business drivers & risk mitigation and applying that in a sapient way to their job as opposed to folks who paid someone to teach them how to pass a multiple-choice exam?!? Amazing!
Noncertified IT pros earn more than certified counterparts: survey
Performance Summit 2008, CFP 2007-11-22 11:50:58 PERFORMANCE SUMMIT 2008
March 20 - 21, 2008, Porto Alegre (Brazil)
Sponsored by: DELL- Brazil / PUCRS
SUBJECT OF THE CONFERENCE
Globalization pushes information technology to its limits. Also it makes companies more and more dependent on their IT resources, so speed and scalability became a critical factor for the companies to be successful. Performance
Engineering (PE) came to help developing faster and more scalable applications by applying performance testing end engineering practices. Performance Engineering can be a complex area, demanding very skilled and experienced professionals. Also, this is a relatively new area in the business world, so there are plenty of room for development of techniques, practices and people. This summit has 2 main goals: to introduce performance engineering to the IT community, in order to increase the number of professionals in the discipline, and to share the best practices in the Performance engineering discipline, methods t Read more:Summit
Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications book 2007-12-17 23:08:21 Some time back, I blogged about a book I'd been significantly contributing to being available as a free .pdf download. (see the entry here)
Well, the book quietly appeared in "dead tree format" (as Stuart Moncrieff put it in his blog post about the book) a couple of weeks ago and I've been getting light heartedly scolded by some of my friends and readers for not making a big announcement, so here's my "big announcement"
PerformanceTesting
Guidance for Web Applications
by: J.D. Meier, Scott Barber, Carlos Farre, Prashant Bansode, and Dennis Rea is now available on Amazon.
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