Theme: Performance Rules of Thumb

WOPR13 Theme Description
Many testers develop job aids such as models, frameworks and tools. These aids often incorporate rules of thumb, or heuristics, which help monitor progress and quickly identify and resolve problems. Rules of thumb are similar to what have been called "Testing Smells"; practitioners use them to plan and conduct performance tests, analyze test results, and examine live systems.

I got invited to a National Science Foundation workshop whose…goal broadly speaking will be to reflect on softwareengineering research and practice of the past, to determine some areasin which “rethinking” is needed, and to engage in some rethinking.I have a position (strongly held, of course). But when I look at the list of attendees and [...]

Here’s an example of what I meant by my earlier position. Suppose I were a professor and someone wanted to do a PhD under me. He or she is sort of interested in databases, sort of interested in software engineering, sort of interested in whatever I can come up with. I would say something like [...]

We just released a new version of Pex, v0.15.40714.1. This version does not contain any new features but… it brings better memory management and bug fixes for issues that were reported through our MSDN forums. Happy testing!

It contains a couple breaking changes too: