Friday, October 23 - 8:45am
President's Ballroom "SpeedGeeking"
Hosted by Matt Heusser
Listen to some of the best software testers on the planet answer one simple question: If you had just five minutes to teach, motivate, or inspire the audience about software testing, what would you say? SpeedGeeking is the fast, fun, and easy way to gain insight from our conference faculty on the last day of STPCon. You'll rotate between our speakers who will share their best ideas in just a few moments. With no room for fluff, "Agenda" slides, or opening jokes, Speed Geeking is the ultimate big idea, lightbulb moment experience. Testing expert and Software Test & Performance magazine contributing editor MATT HEUSSER will host this lively session.
Friday, October 23, 10:00 - 11:00 am
Resource Monitoring: Bellwether Metrics for Diagnosing Performance Bottlenecks
Dan Downing
The ultimate goal of performance testing is identifying and fixing performance bottlenecks. While a large percentage of bottlenecks are ultimately traced to the application code, they also occur in servers, system software, and network components. Critical to diagnosing their root cause is identifying and monitoring a set of "bellwether metrics." In this class, you'll take away concrete learnings you can apply on your next load test. You'll be energized by Dan's dynamic style, and you'll glean gems of insight distilled from presentations on this subject at the Spring WOPR12 Conference. Dan Downing is VP and general manager of Testing Services at Mentora. He's a subject matter expert in load testing and created the Five Steps of Load Testing methodology.
Friday, October 23, 11:15am - 12:15 pm
CMMI: Level 0 to Level 4 in Less Than Three Years
Jan Fish
Keep it simple. That's the philosophy of software testers at Phillips Home Monitoring/Lifeline, which develops devices and systems for emergency health care communications. Learn about the templates, approaches, checklists, metrics, QA estimation models and other supporting documents that, once implemented and standardized, helped Phillips elevate its testing organization to CMMI Level 4 in less than three years. Jan Fish is a manager of test and process improvement at Philips Lifeline. She has nearly 35 years of experience in test, software systems, process improvement and change management in financial and software organizations of all sizes.