Software Test & Performance Conference
Submitted by Alexander Podelko on Wed, 23/11/2005 - 05:04.
performance testing
The conference was quite interesting for performance testers, especially those with limited experience. Usually there was a choice of performance-related classes almost for each time slot (except tutorials). Presenters were, among others, Scott Barber, Ross Collard, Robert Sabourin, Hung Nguyen.
How useful such conferences are for experienced people is a little more complicated question. The conference was rather education oriented, the presentations were named classes, presenters – faculty. There was even a discussion about that on one session – still the opinion was that it helps to validate what you are doing, check for what is missed, look for better way to do things, network with other professional.
It is surprising how vision depends on what (and where) you are doing. While “Performance Management Throughout the Application Life Cycle” is my favorite subject, almost everything that Ron Bodkin presented was somewhat new for me.
Looks like the tendency to move towards performance tests earlier in the life cycle and unit performance testing is picked up by more and more vendors. I found in a Segue SilkPerformer flyer: “You can rapidly generate test drivers for Web services, .Net and COM+ server components, EJB’s and Java RMI objects by exploring them via point & click interface. Alternatively, you can directly import JUnit/NUnit … for concurrency tests.” So looks like Segue keep pace here (although a guy at Segue’s booth was unable to show me where this JUnit/NUnit import is).
How useful such conferences are for experienced people is a little more complicated question. The conference was rather education oriented, the presentations were named classes, presenters – faculty. There was even a discussion about that on one session – still the opinion was that it helps to validate what you are doing, check for what is missed, look for better way to do things, network with other professional.
It is surprising how vision depends on what (and where) you are doing. While “Performance Management Throughout the Application Life Cycle” is my favorite subject, almost everything that Ron Bodkin presented was somewhat new for me.
Looks like the tendency to move towards performance tests earlier in the life cycle and unit performance testing is picked up by more and more vendors. I found in a Segue SilkPerformer flyer: “You can rapidly generate test drivers for Web services, .Net and COM+ server components, EJB’s and Java RMI objects by exploring them via point & click interface. Alternatively, you can directly import JUnit/NUnit … for concurrency tests.” So looks like Segue keep pace here (although a guy at Segue’s booth was unable to show me where this JUnit/NUnit import is).