Performance Testing

Tutorials

MN Application Performance Testing: A Simplified Universal Approach

Scott Barber, PerfTestPlus, Inc.

Mon, 05/04/2015 - 1:00pm

In response to increasing market demand for high performance applications, many organizations implement performance testing projects, often at great expense. Sadly, these solutions alone are often insufficient to keep pace with emerging expectations and competitive pressures. With specific examples from recent client implementations, Scott Barber shares the fundamentals of implementing T⁴APM™, a simple and universal approach that is valuable independently or as an extension of existing performance testing programs.

Concurrent Sessions

T15 Implement an Enterprise Performance Test Process

Ryan Riehle, InCycle Software

Thu, 05/07/2015 - 1:30pm

Suddenly, application performance is important to your business, and you have been given the budget to improve it. You’re in a hurry because customers are complaining or because you expect jumps in transaction volume and your application needs to scale quickly. Do you know where to start? Join Ryan Riehle as he shares his experiences developing enterprise performance testing programs. Ryan covers the key techniques and heuristics that lead to an effective performance improvement effort.

T21 Performance Testing in the Agile Lifecycle

Lee Barnes, Utopia

Thu, 05/07/2015 - 3:00pm

Traditional large scale end-of-cycle performance tests served enterprises well in the waterfall era. However, as organizations transition to agile development models, many find their tried and true approach to performance testing—and their performance testing resources—becoming somewhat irrelevant. The strict requirements and lengthy durations just don’t fit in the context of an agile cycle. Additionally, investigating system performance at the end of the development effort misses out on the early stage feedback offered by an agile approach.