Performance Testing

Tutorials

MF Application Performance Testing: A Simplified Universal Approach SOLD OUT

Scott Barber, SmartBear

Mon, 10/13/2014 - 8:30am

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

T11 Checking Performance along Your Build Pipeline

Andreas Grabner, Compuware

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 11:15am

Do you consider the performance impact when adding a new JavaScript file, a single AJAX call, or a new database query to your app? Negligible, you say? I disagree―and so should you. Andreas Grabner demonstrates the severe impact small changes can have on performance and scalability. Many small changes will have an even bigger impact so it is important to catch them early.

T17 Build Your Custom Performance Testing Framework

Prashant Suri, Rackspace

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 1:30pm

Performance testing requires knowledge of systems architecture, techniques to simulate the load equivalent of sometimes millions of transactions per day, and tools to monitor/report runtime statistics. With the evolution from desktop to web and now the cloud, performance testing involves an unparalleled combination of different workloads and technologies. There is no one tool available—either commercial or open source—that meets all performance testing needs.

T23 Modeling System Performance with Production Data

William Hurley, Astadia

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 3:00pm

When creating system performance models, the primary challenges are where and how to start. Whatever the performance characteristics being estimated or modeled, we need a solid approach that addresses both business and system needs. All too often performance tests inadvertently mix load and stress scenarios with little regard for how this will confound recommendations and business decisions. If you are a test manager, a business process owner, or you simply want to better understand performance testing, you will be interested in William Hurley’s case studies.