Archive for October, 2007

STPCon 2007: Day Three

Friday, October 5th, 2007

9:00 am - 10:00 am: Applying SPE to Java EE Application Design, Development and Deployment William Louth If I can try to summarize SPE (Software Performance Engineering) in a single sentence, it is the practice of characterizing application use cases and creating models that can have many uses, including problem diagnosis, and ...

STPCon 2007: Day Two

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

8:45 am - 9:45 am: Keynote: Performance Testing: It isn't what you might think Scott Barber Ed Correia gave a somewhat awkward introduction (ask someone else who was there) of conference keynote speaker Scott Barber. Barber spoke for approximately a half hour about myths and realities of performance testing. He ...

STPCon 2007: Day One

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

Today was the first day of the three day Software Test & Performance Conference, held in Boston, MA (well, Cambridge, actually). On schedule for Day 1 are several full-day tutorials. I sat in on Scott Barber's "Performance Testing Secrets in Context." This class covered the material in the recent ...