(MP3, 19 MB, 20:31) Keith Moon is talking about performance and load testing at QA PodCast. Keith's day job is at a large Vancouver software company that builds business intelligence software. Here are some quotes from today's show: "I would think being a performance tester would be a very exciting job. Because, as you say, it requires a understanding of the system, architectural thinking, a sharp detective mind to understand where the bottlenecks come from." "There's this game called Mastermind which is basically a troubleshooting game. That's what testing is like, except for this is on a grander scale, when you have a complex, interdependent system. The most fun is when the product comes together and you can start taking it to the upper extremities of load and start to monitor how the whole ecosystem works together." "The weakest link is what determines the performance of the system, and there's loads of opportunities for weakest links to slip through until you do the full system test."