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History of Ideas in Software Testing

Monday March 23rd 2009 2am Rated 4 21 Comments Agile Performance Automation Metrics Development Acceptance Exploratory Functional Integration Process Software Strategy Testing Teams Unit Six Sigma selenium Web
Yesterday I started reading Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams by Crispin and Gregory.

Changing the Way We Test By Managing Change

Wednesday September 16th 2009 7am Rated 2 20 Comments Management Performance Software Requirements Web
The Business Case for Dynamic SQA and Test Management Featuring Forrester Analyst Margo Visitacion and MKS’s Ryan Lloyd
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HP - LoadRunner

Tuesday August 21st 2012 7am Rated 1 9 Comments Performance

Models Models Everywhere

Tuesday January 12th 2010 1pm Rated 1 8 Comments Agile Performance Software Testing
I've made no secret of my disappointment in the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model.

The Agile Process Creates Testing Puzzles... Which Are Solved When Agile Is Performed Correctly

Wednesday July 1st 2009 7am Rated 0 8 Comments Agile Development Process Performance Software Testing Unit User Requirements
Boon the mankind or over-hyped fad? Read this point-counterpoint and decide for yourself.
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Stop Cheating in Your Performance Tests

Thursday November 18th 2010 9am Rated 15 7 Comments Load Performance Web
There are two dangerous practices that are rampant in performance testing right now – shrinking or removing think times and extrapolation of test results. Collectively we need to work to put an end to these practices and start testing more realistically to deliver higher confidence. Let’s talk about each of these things and why they’re bad news.
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What do you want to hear?

Monday December 21st 2009 4pm Rated 0 6 Comments Performance
I'm putting together a talk for STAREast 2010.

A Paradigm Shift in Web Application Architecture and Why Performance Testers Should Care

Thursday October 6th 2011 10am Rated 11 5 Comments Performance Software Test and QA
Modern browsers are turning into miniature operating systems. They can multi-task browsing processes, allocate and manage memory, collect garbage and much more. They are capable of running complex web applications on their own with minimal server interaction. There is now a paradigm shift in the web application architecture as a majority of application processing is shifting from the server to the web browser. The web browser, once called a “Thin” client has become a big fat cat lately.
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Using Web Analytics for Modeling Application Usage in Performance Tests

Tuesday December 6th 2011 9am Rated 8 5 Comments Testing Performance
In my last article, I wrote about the paradigm shift in web application architecture and why performance testers have to re-think their strategy around testing rich internet applications (RIA) for performance. Web application development processes and user expectations continue to grow by leaps and bounds. Sadly, the techniques and approaches employed to test those applications have not kept up with the same growth rate. But the good news is that newer tools are coming up and methodologies are being defined to close in on that gap. Hence, it is essential that performance testers make use of them at every phase of the performance testing lifecycle.
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Heusser v. Page: Code Coverage Cage Match!

Tuesday December 22nd 2009 8am Rated 1 5 Comments Newsletters Test and QA Performance Software
As testers, we all have favorites whose blogs we read and who we follow on Twitter. I love it when my favorites disagree, and it always makes me pay attention when I see this happen online. Disagreements can be powerful because they show us a new perspective and give new depth to a topic. I recently noticed a serious discussion on Twitter between Matt Heusser and Alan Page about code coverage metrics.
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Naïve Metrics

Wednesday January 20th 2010 5pm Rated 0 5 Comments Performance Metrics Development
Let's say you don't know anything about software testing.

Performance/ Improvement, not "Process" Improvement

Wednesday November 25th 2009 2pm Rated 0 5 Comments Performance Process
Would you be willing to go on a little experiment with me?

Performance Testing Integrated Sub-Systems

Thursday July 28th 2011 1pm Rated 6 4 Comments Performance Services Testing Web
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.

Why we really need to do performance testing....

Tuesday July 20th 2010 5pm Rated 2 4 Comments Best Practices Performance
Okay, there are probably lots of reasons why people feel that they need performance testing done on an application - complaints from users or customers, wanting to baseline the app at inception, because they read somewhere that they should, the monetized value of error avoidance.... I'm sure there are other reasons. But I think there is a much simpler reason, read on and find out what it is....

Performance Testing within the Agile Methodologies

Tuesday June 1st 2010 12am Rated 7 3 Comments Agile ST&QA Magazine Performance Life Cycle Development Load Software Testing Unit
Software engineering and the programs generated from such initiatives have indeed changed the way business is conducted in every enterprise large or small spanning the globe. Furthermore, the way software is being constructed and managed today is rapidly changing as the environments, development tools, and methodologies evolve to fit the unique needs of every organization.
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Centralized Performance Testing

Tuesday January 17th 2012 12pm Rated 6 3 Comments Performance Testing
Most companies are immature with regards to performance testing applications. Why? Because it normally requires someone with a niche skill set to create tests which produce accurate results. Such a person would have some level of expertise in virtually all areas of IT, including development, QA testing, infrastructure, database administration, and networking.

Ask the Tester

Monday December 20th 2010 9am Rated 6 3 Comments Editorial ST&QA Magazine Agile Performance Management Integration Software Testing Web
A U.S. Army Officer turned performance tester, Scott Barber is probably best known as the co-author of Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications by Microsoft Press.
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Delivering Value & the Testing Quagmire

Tuesday June 14th 2011 12am Rated 5 3 Comments Test and QA ST&QA Magazine Performance Metrics Software Testing
Through my many years in QA, I have experienced many epiphanies about quality, testing and what these terms actually mean to business owners and end users. After 20+ years working for both large multi-national and small companies across several industries, I have become intensely aware of how business goals and objectives drive the many dimensions of measuring business value and quality. The nature of the end product/application will dramatically affect how quality is defined and therefore as testers, one’s approach and understanding of how to relate and articulate this will be instrumental in ensuring results have accurately validated attainment.

Productivity Killer: Sociopaths in the Organization

Monday April 4th 2011 12pm Rated 5 3 Comments Software Testing Test and QA Performance Process Project Management Quality Assurance
Matt continues his series on productivity killers by taking on a serious problem ... that nobody talks about

What does it mean to be a 'test expert'?

Friday June 4th 2010 4am Rated 5 3 Comments Editorial Essentials Testing Performance Software Unit
So we've got this new crew 'Ask the test expert.' What does that mean -- and how can you get involved? Matt Heusser lends his two cents.
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