User:Rsbarber

Scott Barber is viewed by many as the world’s most prominent thought-leader in the area of software system performance testing and as a respected leader in the advancement of the understanding and practice of testing software systems in general. Scott has contributing to four books (co-author, Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications, Microsoft Press; 2007, contributing author Beautiful Testing, O’Reilly Media; 2009, contributing author How to Reduce the Cost of Testing, CRC Press; 2011, author Web Load Testing for Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011), composed over 100 articles and papers, delivered keynote addresses on five continents, served the testing community as the Executive Director of the Association for Software Testing, and co-founded the Workshop on Performance and Reliability. 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.

Today, Scott is focused on applying and enhancing his thoughts on delivering world-class system performance in complex business and technical environments with a variety of clients and is actively building the foundation for his next project: driving the integration of testing commercial software systems with the core objectives of the businesses funding the creation of those systems.

When he’s not “being a geek”, as he says, Scott enjoys spending time with his partner Dawn, and his sons Nicholas and Taylor at home in central Florida and in other interesting places that his accumulated frequent flier miles enable them to explore.

More about Scott can be found at about.me

PUBLICATIONS

Publications are available here.

• Co-Author, Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications, Microsoft Press; 2007
• Contributing Author, Beautiful Testing, O'Reilly Media; 2009
• Contributing Author, How to Reduce the Cost of Testing, CRC Press; 2011
• Author, Web Load Testing for Dummies, John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; 2011
• 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

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