Title: Top Tips for Addressing the Challenge and Ask the Testing Savants
Speaker: Scott Barber, Chief Technologist, PerfTestPlus, Inc.
Date: Thursday, October 13, 2011
Time: 12:25-12:40 PM PT

During the first half of this session, your host Scott Barber, summarizes the top tips from the previous seven sessions as they relate to the questions posed during the first session “Software Test Automation, Where’s the Value”.

Next, you will get a chance to tap in to our speaker’s expertise. During the second half of this session, Achieving Business Value with Test Automation summit participants will have the chance to pose any burning questions they might have about test automation to our speaker panel. Feel free to submit your questions throughout the summit.


About Scott Barber
Scott Barber is viewed by many as the world’s most prominent thought-leader in the area of software system performance testing and as a respected leader in the advancement of the understanding and practice of testing software systems in general. Scott earned his reputation by, among other things, contributing to three books (co-author, Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications, Microsoft Press; 2007, contributing author Beautiful Testing, O’Reilly Media; 2009, contributing author How to Reduce the Cost of Testing, Taylor & Francis; TBP Summer, 2011), composing over 100 articles and papers, delivering keynote addresses on five continents, serving the testing community for four years as the Executive Director of the Association for Software Testing, and co-founding the Workshop of Performance and Reliability.

Today, Scott is applying and enhancing his thoughts on delivering world-class system performance in complex business and technical environments with a variety of clients and is actively building the foundation for his next project: driving the integration of testing commercial software systems with the core objectives of the businesses funding that testing.