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9/11 Can Make You a Better Tester


By Edward J. Correia
September 11, 2007 — 
Today we remember a tragic day in American history. While the events of 9/11 are clearly off-topic for this forum, I was struck by an odd feeling as I went about my work day. As my e-mail inbox filled with press releases, newsletters and coworker messages as they do every day, I noticed that they all had one thing in common: Every one treated today as just another day.

Life must go on, of course, but it doesn't seem right to treat 9/11 as if it was business as usual. So please indulge me while I make a quick observation about how my colleagues in the media covered the anniversary, and how it relates to your job.

Many memorials were covered by the major television and radio broadcast networks. Some focused on the reading of the names of those killed at Ground Zero; others reported live from the Pentagon or Shanksville, Pa. But in my opinion, the networks didn’t air enough of the horrific pictures from that day. In fact, I didn’t see any.

I heard a report that one cable network, MSNBC, re-aired unedited coverage from NBC News of that day in 2001, and repeated it throughout the morning. I would have liked to see more of that. Because only by reliving the events and the horror of that day will we truly remember how united we once were.

And when people share a common enemy—or a common goal—they are capable of amazing things. You, as testers and members of a development team, share the common goal of building the best possible software you can, and making sure it performs at its peak performance potential.

During the first week of October, some of you will be attending our annual Software Test & Performance Conference, and I’ll certainly be seeing you there. I’ll be the one introducing the keynote speakers and telling corny jokes. I’ll also be looking to meet some of you to discuss what we’ve been doing right and should therefore do more of, and where we might improve. October marks the twelfth month that I’ve served as editor of this newsletter, and I hope you’ve found it useful.

Much of this year’s fall conference is devoted to performance—improving the performance of your applications and of your testing. Among the full-day tutorials on day one are Rex Black’s methods on evaluating your team’s efficiency and effectiveness, Scott Barber’s Testing Secrets in Context, and guidance from Bob Galen on how to create and lead a high-performance test organization.

One-hour courses on day two include techniques on improving Web application performance using Six Sigma defect elimination techniques by Microsoft quality manager Mukesh Jain, performance-testing Web applications using the OpenSTA record-and-playback testing framework by consultant Dan Downing, and a course on performance testing for managers by Barber.

Also on day two is a course on continuous performance management using Java taught by Java tuning expert Steven Haines, runtime diagnostics testing by JInspired CTO William Louth, performance test data analysis by testing consultant Karen Johnson and performance testing SOA by Barber.

On day three, Barber takes on performance bottlenecks—understanding, finding and exploiting them—in a two-part class. Also on Thursday are LogiGear co-founder Michael Hackett’s tips for turning your test team into a high-performance organization, performance testing for Web 2.0 by load-test expert consultant Donald Foss, Java EE performance tuning by Haines, rooting out Java EE CPU bottlenecks by Symphony consultant Sreekanth Makam, maximizing SQL Server 2005 performance by Mary Sweeney, and performance-testing obnoxious protocols by Mark Lustig.

It all starts with the opening keynote—also delivered by the busy Barber—titled “Performance Testing: It Isn’t What You Might Think,” in which the career performance tester challenges software testing myths.

There’s still time to get the best price. Early-bird specials have been extended to Sept 14. So don’t wait—REGISTER TODAY!


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