A Few Thoughts about Certifications
Recently I continue to stumble upon ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualification Board) certification. First, after a few discussion about need of standardization …
Performance Testing: The Art of Scripting
Performance testing is an interesting discipline: while you may see a lot of people doing it, not much is written about it. …
User Concurrency
Performance testing terminology is not well defined and one of the most ambiguous terms is user concurrency. Re-reading Load Testing: Concurrent Users …
Performance vs. Scalability
After attending Sergey Chernyshev’s (@sergeyche) Scalability vs. Performance presentation at NY Web Performance Meetup and reading Scalability: it’s the question that drives …
APM, Analytics, and Industry Trends
Just read Gartner Q&A: Analytics vs. APM with Will Cappelli, Gartner Research VP in Enterprise Management, part one, part two, and part …
Performance Testing Issues and Trends
And now, after my posts about agile performance testing and performance requirements in agile projects, we are getting to another fundamental issue …
Performance Requirements and Agile Projects
It looks like agile methodologies are somewhat struggling with performance requirements (and non-functional requirements in general). Probably there are several reasons for …
Performance Testing and Agile Projects: Recollections and Resources
It looks like testingreflections.com, where I had blogged for a while, doesn’t exist anymore. One more confirmation that you can’t rely on …
Performance Engineering: Historical View
It is interesting to look how handling performance changed with time. Probably performance went beyond single-user profiling when mainframes started to support …
My Recent Articles/Talks/Plans
Updated the list of my publications. Suddenly a lot happened in December. At the CMG Conference I presented the latest version of …