There is a lot going on in this space, more than this humble Administrator can keep up with. Fortunately there are resources who focus on keeping us all informed about the current state of the industry, here are some of my favorites. Included are pertinent articles from people around the industry.
Articles
- Design Of Experiment For Software Testing An interesting article on the application of orthagonal arrays for testcase refinement.
- Using Open Source Software for Performance Testing A Google QA Engineer talks about software performance testing via open-source tools.
- User Community Modeling Language (UCML) for performance test workloads A primer on the use of UCML from the source himself Scott Barber.
- 10 Tips for Writing High-Performance Web Applications When it comes time to actually provide solutions to performance problems with ASP.NET applications these ten often overlooked ideas could help save the day.
- VMmark: A Scalable Benchmark for Virtualized Systems This article contains information on VMmark, a novel means of comprehensive, scalable, performance analysis in a virtualized environment.
- Dashboard Design: Key Performance Indicators & Metrics by Tom Gonzalez
News
Sites
- The Workshop On Performance and Reliability An ongoing series of invitation-only, minimal-cost workshops for experienced performance testers and related professionals.
- The Association for Software Testing (AST) A non-profit professional organization dedicated to advancing the understanding and practice of software testing.