User:Rsbarber

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Scott Barber is a recognized thought leader in the field of software performance testing is the Chief Technologist of PerfTestPlus, Executive Director of the Association for Software Testing (AST) and Co-Founder of the Workshop on Performance and Reliability (WOPR). His specialties are testing and analyzing performance for complex systems, developing customized testing methodologies, testing embedded biometric identification and security systems, group facilitation and authoring instructional materials. He is an international speaker and contributer to various software testing publications. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, American MENSA, the Context-Driven School of Software Testing and is a signatory to the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.

[edit] PUBLICATIONS

Publications are available here.

  • Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability by Microsoft Corporation - Contributed content, reviewed & wrote forward
  • Software Test and Performance Magazine
    • “Peak Performance” – Monthly Column
    • “Diagnosing Symptoms of Poor Performance” – July 2005
    • “Performance Tuning: Detecting and Eliminating Bottlenecks” – May 2005
  • Better Software Magazine
    • “Investigate Performance Early, Validate Performance Last” – Jan/Feb 2006
    • “High-Performance Testing” – May/June 2005
  • IBM Developerworks
    • “User Community Modeling Language (UCML™) for Performance Test Workloads”
    • “Beyond Performance Testing” – 14 part article series extending traditional performance testing
    • “User Experience, not Metrics” – 13 part article series about commonly misunderstood performance testing topics
    • “Automated Testing for Embedded Devices” – describes automated functional and performance testing of embedded devices

[edit] PRESENTATIONS

Presentations are available here.

  • Google Tech Talk - "Visual Application Usage Modeling", 2006
  • BCS SIGiST – “Performance Testing for Managers”, 2005
  • Software Test and Performance Conference (multiple), 2004-5
  • 3rd World Consortium on Software Quality by iSQI (multiple), 2005
  • Florida Institute of Technology – “Performance Testing Pitfalls”, 2005
  • Web Site Evolution by IEEE – “Creating Performance Models Without Empirical Data”, 2004
  • Software Test And Review (multiple), 2004-6
  • IBM/Rational User’s Conference (multiple), 2002-4
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology – “Automated Testing of Embedded Devices”, 2004
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