A few years ago, one of the companies I worked with created a “Production Application Support Team”, or PAST. These were the sysadmins and programmers intended as the next line of support after the helpdesk, who could triage some problems and perhaps actually fix them.
Matthew Heusser
Test Competition Results!
It was a quiet Friday Morning in the United States. Or, I mean, Friday afternoon in India and Singapore. Later in New Zealand, and in Europe …
The Moment We’ve Been Waiting For
It’s here! It’s here! If you are reading this, then the Test Competition is finally here!
The Consultant’s Gambit
The class where I learned method-R performance tuning also taught me something else, something I call the consultant’s gambit. This is that story.
Update: One Month To Test Competition!
On March 11th, 2013, registration for the test competition closed.
More On Power
One of our contributors, Pete Walen, recently put out a blog post on leadership and power. It is a good post; if you enjoy reading long-form articles that are more conversation than bullet-points, I suspect you’ll get a kick out of it.
Tuning Performance with Method-R
I’ve been that guy. You may be that person some day … you may be that person now. Either way, it is safe to sat that those in that position would prefer to be out of it.
Test Competition Frequently Asked Questions
It hasn’t been easy to organize our first test competition. We’ve had to look for collaboration tools, make sure they scale, plan the scoring, find a way to record the bugs, figure out what to test …
Test Competition Update
It has been two weeks since we announced the details and how to register for the NRG Global test competition. Since that time, we’ve had three teams register. No, I’m not worried, here’s why: At the same time I am organizing this, I am also co-chair of the test and quality track of the Agile … Read more
Serious Web Load Testing
It is called the basketball exercise, or sometimes inattention blindness, and it demonstrates a real problem in many kinds of automated testing.