Jump Start Your Performance Testing Effort
20th October 2015
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Mark Tomlinson
Performacologist
Talk Description
Youâve got five days left in the sprint, and at the last stand-up, the PO mentions that the business is nervous about the upcoming release. Will it handle the load of the next promotion? Can the system scale?Â
Now youâve got to get some load testing done quickly to provide results to help settle the anxiety and mitigate the risks of a crash or outage. You download five different tools from various vendors; you watch ten videos online on monitoring and diagnostics, you start listening to the PerfBytes podcast, and those guys are just crazy!Â
Now youâve got to get some load testing done quickly to provide results to help settle the anxiety and mitigate the risks of a crash or outage. You download five different tools from various vendors; you watch ten videos online on monitoring and diagnostics, you start listening to the PerfBytes podcast, and those guys are just crazy!Â
What you need is a simple set of first steps to get some load tests going. This Masterclass will describe exactly those first steps, the pitfalls youâll likely face and how to accurately present results from your first load testing effort.Â
What youâll learn
By the end of this masterclass, you'll be able to:
- Choose an apt performance testing tool
- Follow a performance testing process
- Recognise the common pitfalls of performance testing and how to avoid them
- Interpret and present your results accurately
Mark Tomlinson
Performacologist
Mark Tomlinson is a performance engineering and software testing consultant. His career began in 1992 with a comprehensive two-year test for a life-critical transportation system, a project which captured his interest for software testing, quality assurance, and test automation. That first test project sought to prevent trains from running into each other -- and Mark has metaphorically been preventing âtrain wrecksâ for his customers for the past 24 years. He has broad experience with real-world scenario testing of large and complex systems and is regarded as a leading expert in software testing automation with a specific emphasis on performance.
For the majority of Markâs career he has worked for companies as a testing practitioner and consultant using the leading products for performance testing, profiling and measurement. He has also consistently established close ties and relationships with the major vendors who create these tools.
Mark worked for six years at Microsoft Corporation as a performance consultant and engineer in the Microsoft Services Labs, in the Enterprise Engineering Center and in the SQL Server labs. His efforts to foster the success of Microsoftâs top-tier Enterprise customers was focused on their early adoption of Microsoft products as part of mission-critical operations. In 2008, as the LoadRunner Product Manager at HP Software Mark led the team to deliver leading innovations for performance testing and engineering as part of HP's suite of performance validation and management products.
Mark also assists with coaching, training and consulting to help organizations adopt modern performance testing and engineering strategies, practices and behaviors for better performing technology systems. He is the co-founder and host of the popular podcast PerfBytes (www.perfbytes.com).
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