Webinar: Load Testing for Your Peak Season

Calling all DevOps teams! With back-to-school, holidays, and elections right around the corner it’s important to ensure your organization’s applications are ready for peak load performance. Millions of customers will be demanding the most from your website and mobile applications, so how can you be sure they will deliver? Can your applications’ life cycles withstand the volume? Make sure your Application Development and Management teams are ahead of the curve this season. Join this webinar with Tom Chavez, CloudTest Product Manager to learn his tips and suggestions from years of helping hundreds of organizations prepare for peak load performance.

Testing in Production (TiP) has moved from taboo to accepted practice owing to its ability to measure reality and provide actionable feedback. These risks can be mitigated by using proven methodologies, methodologies borne of experience and tools built specifically to handle TiP’s unique requirements. Big Data enables TIP by analyzing user behavior then creating realistic tests. During testing, cloud-based resources are used for the huge data volumes and processed within-memory technology specifically designed for this process Microsoft’s Seth Eliot is a TiP pioneer and SOASTA’s Rob Holcomb has helped evolve the practice with hundreds of SOASTA customers. Catch this webinar, now on-demand, as they dig into: How to leverage both active and passive monitoring for TiP Testing and measuring system stress in production Experimentation and iterative improvement How SOASTA CloudTest facilitates TiP for organizations of all sizes

Two key challenges to continuous load testing are provisioning a test system to handle the load and accessing load generators to drive the traffic. In this webinar from SOASTA & CloudBees, you will learn how to: Build realistic automated web performance tests and run them in Jenkins Architect and launch a test environment that auto-provisions in the cloud Manage a load generation grid to drive load tests in a lights-out mode Establish a performance baseline in your daily Jenkins reports

SOASTA Evangelist Dan Boutin on "Accelerating Software Delivery with Continuous Integration" via SEQ TechWell Web Seminars. August 26, 2015.

This document outlines a webinar presentation on performance testing. It discusses how performance testing needs to change to keep up with trends like increased application development, continuous delivery, and more demanding users. Traditional approaches using siloed teams and infrequent testing are outdated. The presentation provides tips on breaking the status quo by increasing test frequency, embracing mobile applications, and integrating performance testing into agile development teams throughout the software lifecycle. Distributed, collaborative performance testing driven by real user data is presented as the new modern approach.

Recent Microsoft studies have demonstrated not everyone gets automated testing right; many enterprises still lack the know-how to achieve optimum results. Join our upcoming webinar on 5 Keys to your best Automated Testing Strategy. In this webinar, we will cover: Avoiding the Automation ‘Gotchas’ Visualizing end-to-end performance Predicting and solving performance issues …along with a live demo of SOASTA’s Mobile Functional Test with integrated device performance metrics.

Did you know that your customers network type affects not only the performance they see on your site but also affects your back end systems? We recently added Network Emulation to the SOASTA 57 Spring release. Come to this webinar to learn why and how to add this important feature to your load and performance tests to accurately model expected use of your web application. You will learn: How network type affects app and infrastructure load and performance How to model tests to match real user experience How to set up and run network emulation with CloudTest

It's all about conversion. Every e-commerce business that cares about improving revenue has a narrow focus of optimizing their website to improve customer experience. However, most companies still lack the ability to create realistic website performance tests due to limitations in their current test methods. In this webinar you'll learn: 1) How to tie business metrics (ROI) with website performance metrics and real user data 2) How to build performance tests that will model user behavior on your site 3) How to correlate data analytics so you can troubleshoot bottlenecks to improve performance

This document discusses how to prepare a website for holidays and major events by focusing on performance. It recommends taking a continuous improvement approach of analyzing site usage data, testing for performance issues, and monitoring site performance during events. Key steps include studying past events to understand customer impacts, projecting future usage, contingency planning, and building a feedback loop between development, product management, and engineering. The goal is to adopt a culture where performance is a key feature and the site is always being prepared through continuous delivery, instrumentation, and addressing issues before they affect customers.

Join us for this webinar that will introduce you to the latest mobile testing technology and processes implemented by Forbes Fortune 5 Companies and the Top 10 Internet Retailers, reducing time to market and giving back valuable time to your business with every test cycle. With the implementation of leading technology, people and processes, our customers have turned taxing four-week long test cycles to simple overnight automation. Give us an hour and let us show you the seven steps on the path to successful Mobile Test Automation. Topics we will cover will include: 1. Know your User 2. Know your App 3. Know your Matrix 4. Know your Devices 5. Know your plan to Automate 6. Know your Performance 7. Know your Edge

IDC, the premier global provider of IT market research, and SOASTA, an IDC industry leader in cloud testing know that maintaining leadership means moving quickly to outpace the competition. Both IDC and SOASTA work with clients to realize the benefits that cloud computing brings to delivering high quality, rapidly deployable web and mobile applications. Join them in this webinar where you will hear: IDC speak on: Perspectives on the state of cloud computing for agile web and mobile development Market dynamics and maturity around the cloud and cloud testing Recommendations for getting started with cloud testing SOASTA speak on: The business drivers for cloud and virtualization Customer goals of using and implementing cloud testing The road to implementing cloud testing in a continuous integration model Case studies of customer cloud testing success SOASTA’s services and technology will be highlighted and demonstrated as a solution for continuous web and mobile testing as utilized by the Paychex team. Who Should Attend? Senior IT Management Development and QA Executives and Directors Performance team leads and engineers Test Automation leads and engineers Mobile Development and Testing team leads and engineers

The webinar discusses continuous integration and automation for mobile development and testing. It presents tools from Atlassian, Zephyr, and SOASTA that can help automate the mobile development and testing process. Continuous integration with Bamboo can help developers integrate code changes more frequently and fail builds faster to catch bugs earlier. Zephyr provides test management to centralize test assets and provide visibility. SOASTA offers tools for test automation, real user monitoring, and performance/load testing to help achieve test completion with quality. Together these tools can help speed up the mobile development process through continuous integration, test automation, and visibility into the testing process.

Check out the latest and greatest features in the SOASTA Spring release of CloudTest and TouchTest including: – JMeter support for easy performance testing from development to production – Version control to manage all your testing assets in Git – Network emulation to build load tests that better model customer actions from desktop and mobile – iOS 9.3 support including 3D Touch – Much more that will be covered in the webinar

Paul Korenevsky and Craig Combs are battle-scarred veterans in the fight to preserve user experience and online retailer revenue. Paul is Akamai’s load testing Subject Matter Expert (SME) for major clients and Craig, a CloudTest Black Belt, has run Performance Engineering engagements at major retailers like Target, Sears, Best Buy and JCPenney. They’re taking a rare pause to share their experiences with you, live! Paul and Craig will equip you with real-world tips & advice from the trenches! · What are the two primary goals for seasonal testing? · Which critical user-scenarios should be tested first? · How do you create realistic conditions for distributed users? · When should you stress your Content Delivery Network? · Should you be hammering on live production systems? SOASTA’s CloudTest platform is an Akamai-approved solution for testing retail sites for the eminent and ever increasing crush of holiday traffic. With capabilities that distribute the load across the globe using cloud infrastructure as well as instantaneous visibility into every aspect of performance during load tests, CloudTest is the performance warrior’s weapon of choice. With real-world advice from battle-trained experts, this webinar is just in time for your seasonal planning!

Accelerating Web and Mobile Testing for Continuous Delivery Automated load and performance testing of your web and mobile apps can ensure quality throughout the application lifecycle. Automated and continuous testing can increase the speed and accuracy of application readiness, and eliminate time-consuming, error-prone manual processes. In this webinar, led by SOASTA experts, you will learn: • How to create a continuous load and performance testing framework • How to trigger testing every time code changes are delivered • How to use TouchTest for mobile apps functional testing • How to use CloudTest for load testing

VerbalizeIt, a human-powered translation platform for businesses, was selected to appear on the popular Shark Tank TV show. Launching a completely revamped website, and recognizing the opportunity to convert six million viewers into customers, VerbalizeIt turned to SOASTA for cloud testing to ensure that their technology held up under the heavy spike in traffic. In this webinar, Kunal Sarda, COO of VerbalizeIt, will be discussing: VerbalizeIt’s road to Shark Tank and SOASTA How quickly they were able to test for the anticipated increase in Website Traffic Samples of user scenarios and tests conducted How web performance bottlenecks were uncovered and fixed Don’t miss this important webinar on performance testing

Real User Measurement (RUM) helps you to stop guessing about what to test. When you see where your users are, when they lose patience, their peak usage by the minute, and precise web and mobile traffic composition, you know exactly what to test. SOASTA’s mPulse is RUM that is easy to implement and gives instant insight that will change your perspective of performance, monitoring and testing forever. Performance experts Cliff Crocker and Buddy Brewer will walk thru the latest release of SOASTA’s mPulse and show how it helps companies see every user, every second, while providing critical information for more accurate testing.

In this session, we go beyond online game servers, to explore other areas where AWS can benefit your game. First, we dive into using AWS to perform load testing of your game. We present architecture patterns, what makes a good load test, and real-world example scenarios. We then highlight emerging trends with cloud rendering, and show how you can integrate Amazon EC2 GPU-based instances into your game workflow. Finally, hear from Playcast, who brought their Cloud Gaming service to new players worldwide, by leveraging the G2 EC2 instance. Playcast share how they architected their streaming service to best leverage the cloud, things they learned, and demo their service streaming games from AWS.

Slides for my talk on Continuous Load Testing using Gatling. https://github.com/codepitbull/vertx3-gatling-docker-mvn

This document summarizes a study on the effects of top management team composition on company performance in Indonesian mining companies. The study analyzed 174 executives from 18 mining companies listed on the Indonesian stock exchange. It found that characteristics like age, gender, nationality, and education level of top managers had no statistically significant influence on the companies' return on assets. Limitations of the study included its small sample size, limited variables for measuring performance, and use of only one year of annual reports. In conclusion, the composition of top management teams was found not to affect company performance in the Indonesian mining sector based on this study.

Upper Echelons Theory - Hambrick & Mason, 1984 Various studies show that organizations are a reflection of its top managers (Finkelstein and Hambrick) 1996 Carpenter et al (2004) also repeats the composition of the TMT, in terms of diversity of the upper echelons theory due to the duties of internal and external management.

The document discusses understanding work teams. It begins by explaining that teams are more popular today because they are more flexible and responsive to change than traditional departments, allowing management to democratize organizations and increase employee motivation. It distinguishes between work groups, whose performance is the sum of individual contributions, and work teams, which generate synergy through coordinated effort. The document then covers types of teams like problem-solving teams, self-managed work teams, cross-functional teams, and virtual teams. It discusses the differences between groups and teams and factors that contribute to effective teams such as context, composition, and processes. Context includes adequate resources, leadership, trust, and rewards. Composition examines the abilities, personality, roles, diversity

An overview of what you need to know about load-testing as a pre-launch startup. Slides for my "Load-testing For Startups" workshop

This presentation will walk through some of the key considerations for planning and running load test to ensure your Cassandra application will meet you expected scaling requirements. We will also walk through some examples of using the cassandra-stress tool to construct load test for real-life application scenarios. About the Speaker Ben Slater Chief Product Officer, Instaclustr Instaclustr provides Cassandra and Spark as a managed service in the cloud. As Chief Product Officer, Ben is charged with steering Instaclustr's development roadmap, managing product engineering and overseeing the production support and consulting teams. Ben has over 20 years experience in systems development including previously as lead architect for the product that is now Oracle Policy Automation and over 10 years as a solution architect and project manager for Accenture.

It’s 4am and you don’t know it, but you're about to get three times the traffic you were expecting. Is your service ready to handle it? Systems are only as scalable as their weakest component. Large scale load testing in production is the best (and surest) way to ensure that services can truly scale to the unexpected. But the load generator itself can be difficult to scale, expensive to run on hundreds or thousands of hosts, challenging to keep the data secure, and time consuming to develop. The Amazon.com retail site is one of most heavily used sites in the world, and has to be ready for anything, at anytime. How do you design a load test for this in record time while keeping it cost effective? Well, you use AWS! Come learn Best Practices on how you can use Amazon SQS, Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon CloudWatch, Auto Scaling, and Amazon DynamoDB to design horizontally scalable large-scale load tests that can simulate the load that millions of users are putting onto your site. We met a tight schedule and did it under budget thanks to AWS and you can too!

What's the difference between doing 'Agile' and being 'Agile'? Looking through the history, tools and techniques of agile software development will help you understand the agile 'mindset'.

The Scrum methodology of Agile software development was inspired from and grew out of the shortcomings of traditional waterfall management. Unlike waterfall techniques, Scrum methods emphasize team collaboration and communication, functioning software know-how, and focus strongly on the ability to adapt and be responsive to any and all emerging business situations. The Scrum and Agile IT methodologies are proven project management styles and business approaches that assist companies in identifying company goals as well as customer needs. Through frequent adaptation and inspection, these leadership methods promote team member accountability, self-organization, and allow for high-quality projects to be completed quickly.

This document discusses teams and team dynamics. It defines what teams are, describes different types of teams, and explains advantages and disadvantages of teams. It also covers factors that affect team effectiveness such as team design, team processes, and environmental factors. Some key aspects of teams discussed include team size and composition, team development, team norms, cohesion, trust, decision making processes, and conflict resolution.

This document discusses design issues in information systems and team composition. It outlines 7 common design issues: boundary issues, scale issues, change issues, proof issues, power issues, uneven issues, and abstraction issues. It then discusses what constitutes a team and different types of team composition like homogeneous and heterogeneous teams. It also covers team structures like functional, divisional and leadership structures. Finally, it outlines techniques for team composition like Belbin team roles and Margerison's team management profile.

Recorded webinar: http://slidesha.re/1iJ2ZWu Subscribe: http://ksmartin.com/subscribe Purchase the book: http://bit.ly/VSMbk This webinar presents case studies for several client engagements that involved value stream mapping. For each case, you'll learn: • What the driver was for value stream improvement. • What the planning process consisted of. • The discoveries and challenges that surfaced—and the shifts that occurred—during the 3-day activity. • Transformation results. During the webinar, Karen also answers participant questions about facilitation, transformation plan ownership, team composition, going to the Gemba, and collecting data that's not easily measured.

This document provides an overview of agile methodology and compares it to traditional waterfall development. It describes waterfall development as a sequential process with distinct phases completed one after another. Agile approaches like Scrum and Kanban are presented as more iterative and adaptive alternatives that focus on delivering working software frequently in short cycles through self-organizing cross-functional teams. Key aspects of Scrum like sprints, daily stand-ups, and product backlogs are defined. Kanban emphasizes visualizing and limiting work in progress to optimize flow. Both aim to incorporate feedback and respond rapidly to changes over rigidly following pre-defined plans.

The document introduces agile software development methods. It discusses the goals of being able to speak confidently about agile and provide solutions to problems teams face. The agenda covers introductions to agile principles, roles, planning, reporting, retrospectives, and estimating. Popular agile methods like Scrum and XP are explained. The roles of product managers and product owners are compared.

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Is your mobile website ready for load? Can your mobile app's back-end scale to service peak demand? Mobile web and app usage is growing at a breakneck pace! Between 2014 and 2015, traffic from mobile devices increased from 40% to 75% of total retail traffic, an increase of 35%. In 2015, mobile commerce accounted for $115 billion worldwide. At the end of this year, that number is projected to reach $142 billion. Join us at this webinar to learn: • The different types of mobile traffic generated by browsing and apps • How to load test your mobile web site for mobile browsers • Why mobile apps need load testing, too, and how to create tests Whether your peak time is Black Friday and Cyber Monday, monthly filing rush, quarterly reporting, annual open enrollment, tax filing, or any other peak, this webinar will give you the steps to build load tests so your mobile site and apps will be ready for mobile peak.

This document discusses web performance testing and provides recommendations for establishing a performance testing culture. Some key points: - Performance testing is important for evaluating how a website or application will perform under load and identifying bottlenecks. It should be done continuously from development through production. - Metrics like response time, throughput, error rates should be monitored across loads. Problems may indicate scalability, capacity, or reliability issues. - Tools like JMeter and Jenkins can be used to automate performance testing and integrate it into continuous integration/delivery pipelines. This allows testing at different stages and "shifting testing left." - Real user monitoring provides insights into user behavior and key metrics that should inform realistic performance testing models and goals

As Walmart.com’s former head of Performance and Reliability, Cliff Crocker knows large scale web performance. Now SOASTA’s VP of products, Cliff is pouring his passion and expertise into cloud testing to solve the biggest challenges in mobile and web performance. The holiday rush of mobile and web traffic to your web site has the potential for unprecedented success or spectacular public failure. The world’s leading retailers have turned to the cloud to assure that no matter what load, mobile and web apps will delight customers and protect revenue. Join us as Cliff explores the key criteria for holiday web performance readiness: Closing the gap in front- and back-end web performance and reliability Collecting real user data to define the most realistic test scenarios Preparing properly for the virtual walls of traffic during peak events Leveraging CloudTest technology, as have 6 of 10 leading retailers