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It's a common belief that expensive or complicated tools are required to test performance, but many performance issues can be uncovered with the tools and knowledge your team has access to right now. In fact, much of the performance-related information that stakeholders need to make good decisions and development teams need to dramatically improve system performance is easily obtainable without expensive tools or extensive training. Scott Barber will discuss, demonstrate, and ask you to participate in a variety of quick and easy 30-second performance tests that most teams could start using today.
Scott Barber is the CTO of PerfTestPlus, executive director of the AST, co-founder of WOPR, and co-author of Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications.
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Friday, October 23, 3:45 - 4:45 pm
Testing the User−centric Web: Patterns, Practices, Paradigms
Matt Heusser
If your organization is competing on the Web, you've probably had to face Web 2.0 challenges: user-created content can be complex, time sensitive, and hard to predict before release. The number of possible configurations seems endless, and yet AJAX and JavaScript can be hard to drive with existing automation tools. Matt Heusser will explore the system issues and discuss his experiences with testing Web 2.0 applications. He will cover a basic strategy for testing Web 2.0 applications, along with what to do tomorrow and what you might want to avoid. Matthew Heusser is a member of the technical staff at Socialtext and has experience in developing, testing, and managing software projects. He is also a contributing editor for Software Test and Performance magazine and an
adjunct instructor of Information Systems at Calvin College.