Performance & Software Testing Presentations

Recent Presentations by Scott Barber:

Slides only

• My Life As a Performance Tester, a joint presentation by Scott and Dawn, initially created for Verify 2007.

• Testing Tasks and Bloom's Taxonomy

• Introducing the Captain of your Special Teams... The Performance Test Lead

• Testing and Tester Evolution: Are We Regressing, Stagnating or Advancing?

• Test Automation for Internet Based Applications on Embedded Systems

• Approaches to Software Testing: An Introduction

• SOA Testing Challenges

• Visual Application Usage Modeling (slides | video)

• Pinpointing and Exploiting Specific Performance Bottlenecks

• How Fast Does a Website Need To Be?

• Collaborative Performance Testing & Tuning Teams

• Performance Testing for Managers

• Creating Effective Load Models for Performance Testing with Incomplete Empirical Data

• Performance Testing Challenges

Videos & WebCasts

• Core Activities of Performance Testing - On Demand Webcast by Search Software Quality

Scott Barber explains the big picture for how to approach performance testing as well as how to do workload modeling and performance reporting on MSDN.

• Explained – The Core Activities of Performance Testing
• Explained – The Core Activities of Performance Testing in Agile Project
• Explained – The Core Activities of Performance Testing in CMMI Projects
• Explained – The Modeling Application Usage for Performance Testing
• Explained – The Success Criteria for Performance Test Projects
• Explained – The Distribution of Data for Performance Tests Results
• Explained – The Reporting Fundamentals for Performance Test Data
• Explained – The Summary Statistics for Performance Testing

Recent Presentations by Dawn Haynes:

• My Life As a Performance Tester, a joint presentation by Scott and Dawn, initially created for Verify 2007.

• Zen of Software Testing: Discovering your Inner Tester

• Using Failures to Generate Test Ideas

Less-Recent Presentations by Scott Barber:

• Performance Testing PeopleSoft 8.x

• Introduction to Performance Testing

• Introduction to Designing Performance Test Strategies

• Introduction to Performance Test Reporting

• Performance Testing Uncovered

• User Experience, not Metrics

• Load Generation for Unsupported Protocols

• The Rational Unified Process for Dummies

• Security Audit using a Load Generation Tool