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 ARTICLE: User Community Modeling Language (UCML) for Performance Testing Workloads
Author(s): Scott Barber
Summary: Performance testers use various methods to describe user workloads -- scenarios, operational profiles, and more. Understanding these workloads and accurately simulating them is one key to developing useful performance tests. Scott Barber introduces a User Community Modeling Language (UCML) that he has used to describe and effectively communicate user workloads. With an interactive example, he shows the usage pattern of a sample application and builds a UCML diagram and supporting information to represent usage in an intuitive, easy-to-understand way. See how you can employ the User Community Modeling Language to supplement your existing workload distributions.- Value of representing workload distributions visually for performance testing
- How to create and use UCML diagrams to aid in data gathering in your organization
- Ways to supplement UCML diagrams for accurate representative performance test scripts
Date Posted: May 20, 2005 |
 CONFERENCE MATERIALS: Trends, Innovations and Blind Alleys in Performance Testing
Author(s): Scott Barber, PerTestPlus, and Ross Collard, Collard & Company
Summary: Join experts Scott Barber and Ross Collard for a lively discussion/debate on leading edge performance testing tools and methods. Do you agree with Scott that performance testing is poised for a great leap forward or with Ross who believes that these "silver bullets" will not make much difference in resolving the difficulties performance testing poses? Scott and Ross will square off on topics including commercial vs. open source tools; compatibility and integration of test and live environments; design for performance testability; early performance testing during design; test case reuse; test load design; statistical methods; knowledge and skills of performance testers; predicting operational behavior and scalability limits; and much more. Deepen your understanding of the new technology in performance testing, the promises, and the limitations.
- The latest tools and methods for performance testing
- Opportunities and limitations for performance testing complex systems
- Compare the effectiveness of your performance testing to others
Conference: STAREAST 2006
CONFERENCE MATERIALS: User Community Modeling Language (UCML) for Performance Testing Workloads
Author(s): Scott Barber, Authentec
Summary: Performance testers use various methods to describe user workloads--scenarios, operational profiles, and more. Understanding these workloads and accurately simulating them is one key to developing useful performance tests. Scott Barber introduces a User Community Modeling Language (UCML) that he has used to describe and effectively communicate user workloads. With an interactive example, he shows the usage pattern of a sample application and builds a UCML diagram and supporting information to represent usage in an intuitive, easy-to-understand way. See how you can employ the User Community Modeling Language to supplement your existing workload distributions.
• Value of representing workload distributions visually for performance testing
• How to create and use UCML diagrams to aid in data gathering in your organization
• Ways to supplement UCML diagrams for accurate representative performance test scripts
Conference: STAREAST 2004
MAGAZINE ARCHIVE: Hurry Up & Wait
Author(s): Scott Barber
Summary: There are no industry standards for Web response times. How long a user is willing to wait for a Web page to load depends on any number of variables and conditions. Find out how to determine and quantify performance criteria and use those criteria to create happy customers.
Type of Article: Feature: Define, Design, Develop
Better Software Issue: June 2007| Date Posted: May 31, 2007 |
MAGAZINE ARCHIVE: Tester PI: Performance Investigator
Author(s): Scott Barber
Summary: Finding avoidable, show-stopping problems when performance testing late in a project is, unfortunately, not uncommon. But Scott Barber says you can save time and money on your software development projects by investigating performance early and validating performance last.
Type of Article: Feature: Testing and Analysis
Better Software Issue: March 2006
MAGAZINE ARCHIVE: High Performance Testing
Author(s): Scott Barber
Summary: As an activity, performance testing is often misunderstood, especially by executives and managers. Try these tips on your next performance testing project and put your team on the fast track to success.
Type of Article: Feature: Testing
Better Software Issue: May/June 2005| Date Posted: May 10, 2005 |
CONFERENCE MATERIALS: Inside The Masters' Mind: Describing the Tester's Art
Author(s): Jon Bach, Quardev Laboratories
Summary: Exploratory testing is both a craft and a science. It requires intuition and critical thinking. Traditional scripted test cases usually require much less practice and thinking, which is perhaps why, in comparison, exploratory testing is often seen as "sloppy," "random," and "unstructured." How, then, do so many software projects routinely rely on it as an approach for finding some of its most severe bugs? If one reason is because it lets testers use their intuition and skill, then we should not only study how that intuition and skill is executed, but also how it can be cultivated and taught to others as a martial art. Indeed, that's what has been happening for many years, but only recently have there been major discoveries about how an exploratory tester works and a new effort by exploratory testing practitioners and enthusiasts to create a vocabulary. Join Jon Bach as he describes the new language of exploratory testing and how it may revolutionize the way it is perceived.
Conference: STAREAST 2006
MAGAZINE ARCHIVE: Dear Glossary Builders
Author(s): Ross Collard
Summary: Ross Collard weighs in on whether there should be a testing/quality glossary.
Type of Article: Dept: The Last Word
STQE Issue: Nov/Dec 2003 (Vol. 5 Issue 6)
CONFERENCE MATERIALS: Test Metrics in a CMMI Level 5 Organization
Author(s): Shalini Aiyaroo, Motorola Malaysia Sdn. Bhd
Summary: As a CMMI® Level 5 company, Motorola Global Software Group is heavily involved in software verification and validation activities. Shalini Aiyaroo, senior software engineer at Motorola, shows how tracking specific testing metrics can serve as key indicators of the health of testing and how these metrics can be used to improve your testing practices. Find out how to track and measure phase screening effectiveness, fault density, and test execution productivity. Shalini describes the use of Software Reliability Engineering (SRE) and fault prediction models to measure test effectiveness and take corrective actions. By performing orthogonal defect classification (ODC) and escaped defect analysis, the group has found ways to improve test coverage.
CMMI® is a registered trademark of Carnegie Mellon University.
- Structured approach to outsource testing
- Framework for setting up a client-focused Testing Center of Excellence
- Measurement of the business value of test outsourcing
Conference: STAREAST 2006
MAGAZINE ARCHIVE: The Hard Truth about Soft Skills
Author(s): Esther Derby
Summary: Turn to The Last Word, where software professionals who care about quality give you their opinions on hot topics. This month, Esther Derby explains why interpersonal skills can do more than boost your popularity; they can help you excel in the workplace.
Type of Article: Dept: The Last Word
Better Software Issue: May/June 2005| Date Posted: May 11, 2005 |
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