I finally decided to move my blog from testingReflection to my site to have more control over it. I hope it would be eventually aggregated to testingReflection , but it is not the case right now.

New version of Oracle Application Testing Suite 9.10 (former Emprix – now part of Oracle Enterprise Manager) was released recently. It is available for download (subject to OTN License). A lot of additional materials available (including webinars, white papers, etc.).

The Computer Measurement Group (CMG) calls for papers and presentations for for CMG's 36th International Conference to be held in Kissimmee, Florida, December 6th through 10th, 2010. The 2010 CMG conference will cover all areas of systems management, including but not limited to: capacity planning, management and reporting, modeling and statistics, measurement, tuning, performance engineering and load testing, as well as the latest developments in the overall field of computer performance evaluation.

A magazine version of my Agile Performance Testing article was published in the November 2009 issue of Software Test & Performance.

I explained what this article is about in my earlier post

I put my CMG'09 presenatation A Performance Engineering Story with Database Monitoring on my site.

By the way, CMG'10 call for papers and workshops are available, next year it would be a separate subject area for Load Testing.

There is a separate subject area for Performance Engineering and Load Testing at CMG'09 (held December 6-11 Dallas, Texas). The number of performance testing sessions significantly increased. Of course, there are a lot of excellent sessions in traditionally strong CMG areas such as capacity planning, monitoring, performance analysis, and modeling.

Scott Barber's Performance Testing Innovations ... or Not is, as usual, pretty interesting and thought provoking.

It indeed looks like there are not many innovations in performance testing. Yes, I also believe that agile is the "native" way of doing performance testing and good performance testers always did it in an agile way (even when the word wasn't used in this context yet), it is exactly what I wrote in my CMG'08 paper Agile Performance Testing.

Two Views of Agile Unit Testing reminded me (indirectly) the QAForums Agile Performance Testing - Oxymoron? discussion about agile development and performance testing some time ago

Well, if we talk about agile development I don't see any problem with performance testing at all: you have a working build each iteration – you test it. What is a problem? It should be synonym, not oxymoron.