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Strategy Briefing - The Future of Performance Testing

London, United Kingdom.
Price: Ł125+VAT
Scheduled Dates: Monday 25th October 2010

This seminar is designed to:

Identify the modern challenges in conducting performance testing
Discuss performance testing in an Agile development environment
Evaluate performance testing tools to determine which are most cost-effective
Meet the challenges of testing using virtualised load injectors, test environments and production environments

Seminar Agenda

Timetable
9:00 - 9:30	Registration & Coffee/Tea
9:30 - 9:45	Welcome and Introduction *Danny Quilton, Chief Operating Officer, Capacitas* Performance testing is becoming an increasingly important process for managing the risk to service performance and availability. Yet at the same time, it is becoming an increasingly complex and challenging process to deliver. This seminar will highlight those complexities and challenges and outline some approaches to address them based on our experience with client engagements.
09:45 - 10:30	KEYNOTE: The Challenge of Performance Testing *James Mackay, Test Manager, easyJet* This session will describe the key challenges that easyJet face when conducting performance testing.
10:30 - 11:15	Aligning Performance Testing with Agile Development *Thomas Barns, Consultant, Capacitas* Agile development presents the performance tester with unique challenges but also unique opportunities. Performance testing can become an integral part of the end to end development process, influencing design and development decisions and ensuring that performance issues are caught and fixed early in the development lifecycle. This paper presents processes and methods that Capacitas have successfully used with easyJet, focussing on the following benefits: Early testing and intervention to fix performance issues before release Faster testing and analysis, allowing more test cycles to be executed Cutting infrastructure costs by ensuring minimal resource impact
11:15 - 11:30	Coffee/tea
11:30 - 12:15	Cost-effective Performance Testing Tools *Sameena Hassam, Consultant, Capacitas* Deciding on a suitable tool to conduct performance testing requires a number of factors to be considered. The objective of this session is to provide key information to assist in this decision. Three tools from various points of the cost spectrum will be evaluated against the following criteria: Maturity and availability of expertise Script development Data generation Load generation Network bandwidth simulation Server monitoring Total cost The following tools will be evaluated: HP LoadRunner Site Confidence Load Testing Apache JMeter Finally, the potential of employing multiple tools to achieve greater performance testing capability at a more competitive cost will be discussed.
12:15 - 13:00	Buffet lunch and networking
13:00 - 13:45	Performance Testing for Virtualised Environments *Paul Seaton-Smith, Principal Consultant, Capacitas* The prevalence of server virtualisation has introduced a number of complexities into the art of performance testing. This session will discuss factors to consider when: Performance testing against virtualised test environments Performance testing systems that will be virtualised when in production Using virtual machines as load injectors
13:45 - 14:00	Question & Answer Panel Session Chair: Danny Quilton Panel: Thomas Barns, Sameena Hassam, Paul Seaton-Smith

Brief

Performance testing helps to reduce the risk of performance problems and increase service quality. Although the movement towards browser-based services has in many ways simplified performance testing, a number of new challenges have become apparent.

Continued desire to innovate and be first to market, resulting in shorter development lifecycles.
Delivery of cloud-based services
Additional complexity due to virtualisation technologies.
Increasing availability of open source automated testing tools

Target Audience

Software Development Managers
Quality Assurance Managers
Test Managers
Performance Test Managers
Performance Testers
Capacity Planners

Prerequisites

None

Comments from Previous Attendees

"Great idea to hold a short themed seminar; allows people to get the main ideas and areas for further work, training, etc."
"Case study was interesting."
"Good question/answer section, showing good knowledge and experience of participants."
"Clarity of presentation of method reassuringly honest."
"Interesting morning and very cost effective."
"Well worth my time."
"I am genuinely satisfied."

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Fee

This seminar will cost Ł125+VAT. Those paying on or before 24/09/2010 will qualify for a discount of Ł25+VAT. Please click on the link below to purchase this seminar online.

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