[textile]I was asked the other day if I could speak on a topic around the theme of "Shifting Paradigms in Performance Modelling"...

One of the interesting things about agile projects that the architecture emerges and evolves (as opposed to being designed up-front).

So, how do you keep up? How can you model performance if you don't know what the architecture will look like far enough into the future to justify modelling? Do you need to?

[textile]From the "AutAT Website":http://boss.bekk.no/boss/autat/ ...

AutAT -- An Eclipse Plugin for Automatic Acceptance Testing of Web Applications AutAT * is an open source Eclipse plugin, * makes test driven development of web applications easier, * contains a rich graphical editor for specifying how web-sites should function, * is written using the Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework (GEF),

Way back in August I wrote a pictorial guide to creating a headless hello world eclipse plug-in, and then in December I tapped the power of my massive blog fanbase to shill for votes for my EclipseCon short talk proposal. Today I'm happy to report that our efforts were a success and to invite you, if you're going to be at EclipseCon, to stop by March 22nd at 4:15 (that's 16:15 for my international audience) and listen to the very exciting short talk "Hello World" as a Headless Eclipse Plug-in. I promise it will be worth all 9 minutes of your time.

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