Title: Strategies for Performance Testing Integrated Sub-Systems
Speaker: Eric Proegler, Performance Lead, Hyland Software
Date: July 27, 2011
Time:
11:15 AM-12:15 PM PT
Much performance testing is done at a project or application level. Some projects have multiple consumers of their services, such as databases, single-sign on, and Web Services - or are consumers of these kinds of services and have to share them with other projects.
Few organizations plan to effectively test the performance of the system as a whole when a new or upgraded component or sub-system is brought online, to assess the effects of changes or upgrades to components, or how to validate and scale shared components. When problems occur in these shared components, effects can be felt in multiple applications.
Ultimately, no matter how well a sub-system performs in isolation, its performance characteristics will change when it is integrated, and its performance will impact the system as a whole. During this segment, Eric Proegler discusses these challenges, and approaches for ensuring that the performance impact of adding, sharing, or changing a sub-system meets user expectations.
About Eric Proegler
Eric Proegler has 8 years of experience in software performance testing and optimization. His context includes IIS.NET, SQL Server, storage, and networks. Eric teaches performance testing across the US and Canada.
Eric works at Hyland Software, makers of the OnBase content management solution. Eric consults on, writes, and teaches about deployment and operations methodology, hardware sizing and scaling, storage, WAN optimization, and high availability and disaster recovery for Hyland’s customers and partners.
Eric is a member of AST, the Association for Software Testing, and lead organizer and past content owner of WOPR, the Workshop on Performance and Reliability (www.performance-worskhop.org).