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Wednesday, May 1, 2013 - 1:45pm - 2:45pm
Performance Testing

Cutting-edge Performance Testing on eCommerce Websites

Having problems with your website’s performance? Does it take too much time and effort to determine the cause of a particular page’s poor performance? Would you like to find the root cause of client-side issues in an automated way? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this session is for you. At GSI Commerce, an eBay company, Ron Woody manages a large team of performance engineers working on nearly nearly 100 eCommerce websites. Ron and his team have developed cutting-edge approaches for automating client- and server-side performance testing. Learn the specific approaches Ron’s team uses today for pre-release performance tests, production performance management, and website optimization. Find out the ways they’ve automated cross-browser performance testing—and analysis—to increase productivity and efficiency. Covering these and additional topics Ron shares a toolkit of performance testing ideas and approaches your team can use to ensure optimal application performance and a better user experience.  

Ron Woody, GSI Commerce

Senior manager of QA performance at GSI Commerce (an eBay company), Ron Woody manages a team of twenty-one performance engineers dedicated to ensuring that web-based performance is within targeted requirements for all client sites and launches. Ron brings more than fifteen years of automation, performance, QA management, and process experience to his current role. He heads the effort to improve performance for all web stores released and supported by GSI while providing performance testing and engineering vision to the company.

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