Title: Performance Testing Strategies for 3rd Party Interfaces (Including SOA)
Speaker:
Dan Bartow, Vice President and Cloud Evangelist, SOASTA
Date: July 27, 2011
Time:
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM PT
Many online applications today rely on information or services external to the organization’s own development effort. These 3rd party components contribute to the overall performance of the system. In this segment, Dan Bartow explores methods for incorporating 3rd party component performance (whether that 3rd party is a different company, or simply a different business in your own company that you are unable to work with directly) into your performance testing strategy.
About Dan Bartow

Dan Bartow is Vice President and CloudTest Evangelist at SOASTA, the leader in performance testing from the cloud. Prior to joining SOASTA he was Senior Manager of Performance Engineering at Intuit, where his team was responsible for the speed and stability of TurboTax Online, the #1 rated, best-selling online tax software. Over the past decade he has been responsible for the speed and scalability of websites for such well-known brands as American Eagle Outfitters, AT&T, Best Buy, Finish Line, J.Crew, Neiman Marcus and Sony Online Entertainment, among others. Dan has set multiple industry precedents including launching the worlds largest stateful JBoss cluster and using over 2000 cloud computing cores to generate load against a live web site. Dan has spoken at STPCon multiple times in the past consistently earning the highest ratings from attendees. Dan is a frequent industry presenter and has spoken at leading testing and cloud computing conferences such as Software Test & Performance (STP), O'Reilly's Web2.0 Expo, and SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Expo.