Testing Focus Group: Performance Testing

Organiser
Seattle Technical Forum
Date
Fri, 15 Jun 2012, 00:30 - 03:30 (Add to calendar) GMT
Venue
(Exact location not available) , Redmond, US
Cost
Free

Testing Focus Group of Seattle Technical Forum is hosting a free event about perf testing.

(Also available at http://www.meetup.com/seattle-software-test-talk/events/58349062/)

 

=== Agenda =====
5:30pm - 5:50pm, Snack & social

5:50pm - 6:00pm, Introduction
6:00pm - 8:00pm, The New World of Performance Testing, Goranka from Facebook

The world of performance testing has changed dramatically over the last two decades. As more and more products and services live in cloud, performance testing has become increasingly important. Questions like:

How quickly will the system respond?
How many machines (servers, load balances, switches, etc.) do we need?
What happens when a machine (or a rack, cluster, data-center) fails?
What is the performance cost of a new feature?

have long been labeled as difficult and expensive?

This talk will address answering these questions and dispel some myths. What do you really need in order to become a performance "expert", how do you go about testing and analysis, what do your results mean? Yes, there is some math and statistics involved, but no expensive tools or courses are required.

8:00pm - 8:30pm, Lucky draw & Mingle

 

speaker bio:

Known for her technical achievements and her refreshing wit, Goranka Bjedov works as a Capacity Planning Engineer at Facebook. Her main interests include performance, capacity and reliability analysis.
Prior to joining Facebook, Goranka has also spent five years performance testing and benchmarking at Google and worked for Network Appliance and AT&T Labs so she has lots of real world testing experience. Before joining the industry she was an Associate Professor at the Purdue University Schools of Engineering.

A speaker at numerous testing and performance conferences around the world, Goranka has authored many papers, presentations and two textbooks.

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