Six Critical Success Factors for
Performance Testing Virtualized Systems |
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Co-sponsored by Automated Testing Institute and Mentora, the Webinar on “Six Critical Success Factors for performance testing virtualized systems” was a great success. Per request from registrants, here is the Webinar presentation and a recording for you to download upon your convenience. |
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Who should attend?
If your company is implementing server virtualization to improve operational efficiency and it’s your job to evaluate performance of those virtualized applications, this session is for you. |
| As a performance tester or testing manager, you need to understand the fundamentals of virtualization, differences among virtual server technologies, how virtual workloads are modeled, key performance bottlenecks of virtualized systems and how you need to adapt your testing techniques. |
Agenda
- Introduction
- State of adoption of virtualization
- Operational barriers and concerns
- Virtualization technologies and their differences
- The six critical success factors every performance testing pro needs to understand
1. Anatomy of a virtual system
2. Principles of virtual workload modeling
3. Shortcomings and key bottlenecks of virtual systems
4. Techniques for effective comparative testing
5. System resources: what to measure and how
6. Analyzing and presenting compelling results
- Case study
Learn how a provider of an investment application went virtual, and how they proved its performance.
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How will you benefit?
- Learn the fundamentals of virtualization so you can add greater testing value to your organization
- Walk away with practical guidelines for conducting effective virtualized testing
- Get to know experts that you can call on.
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| About the Speakers |
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Dan Downing
Co-founder and Principal Consultant, Mentora Group, Inc. |
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| Over 12 years, Dan has led hundreds of performance projects on applications ranging from eCommerce to ERP for companies ranging from startups to global enterprises. He has authored numerous presentations, white papers and articles on performance testing, presented at STAR, HP Software Universe, Software Test and Performance, and Workshop on Performance and Reliability conferences. He is widely recognized among the software testing and performance community, and holds positions on the Advisory boards at STP and WOPR among others. |
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Dion Johnson
Automated Testing Institute |
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| Dion has several years of experience in providing IT services to both
government and private industry in a manner that has demonstrated
expertise in multiple areas of the software development lifecycle. With
a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, he has spent
much of his professional career as a consultant in the areas of quality
assurance (QA), quality control (QC), software process improvements,
requirements analysis and software test automation. As a regular
conference speaker and presenter, Dion has delivered award winning and
highly acclaimed presentations at many of the most prestigious industry
conferences, including the StarEast and StarWest International
Conference on Software Testing, Analysis and Review, the Quality
Assurance Institute Conference and Better Software Conference. He also
teaches college and business level classes relative to testing and test
automation, has several published articles in various IT publications
and is the managing editor for the the Automated Testing Institute's
Automated Software Testing Magazine. |
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