Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 17:26:22 -0500 From: John Pustaver Subject: MARK YOUR CALENDAR: Software Quality Group Meeting (Book Give-away), Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2001, Phil Hollows, Best Practices in Load Testing Hi Everyone, Increase your knowledge of load testing and get a chance to win a copy of Steve Rakitin's book, Software Verification and Validation, A Practitioner's Guide. I hope to see you there! John Pustaver Director, Software Quality Group of New England Region I Councilor, ASQ Software Division P.S. There is one new job on the Jobs website at http://www.swquality.com/users/pustaver/jobs/. If your company has SQA positions to fill for permanent or contract employment, please have HR send me a .htm file for each job with all pertinent info so that it can be posted. There are many people looking. Send to pustaver@swquality.com. Software Quality Group Meeting Meetings of the Software Quality Group are held on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at the facilities of Sun Microsystems, Burlington (Driving directions below). MEETING DAY & DATE: Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2001 TIME: 6:15 PM HEADLINE: Best Practices in Load Testing SPEAKER: Phil Hollows, Response Networks, Inc MORE INFO: John Pustaver, 978-443-4254, pustaver@swquality.com LOCATION: Sun Microsystems, Burlington (Driving directions below) DESCRIPTION: Best Practices in Load Testing The outline of this presentation is as follows: * Start Now! * Test Realistically * Test Early, Test Often * Increase Collaborative Testing * Beware the Capture / Playback Trap * Maximize your ROI * Understand the Production Environment * Be Ready for Wireless and Broadband Phil Hollows is VP Product Marketing at Response Networks, Inc. Previously, Phil held a similar position at RadView. NEXT MEETING NOTE: Our next meeting will be held Jan 9, 2002: Bill Silver, Demonstration of Test Design and Automation. 2001-2002 Software Quality Group Calendar Sep 12, 2001: James Isaak, Web Page Engineering Oct. 10, 2001: Steve Rakitin, Writing Software Requirements Nov. 14, 2001: Jim Over, SEI, Personal Software Process (PSP) and Team Software Process (TSP). Dec. 12, 2001: Phil Hollows, Best Practices in Web Load Testing Jan 9, 2002: Bill Silver, Demonstration of Test Design and Automation Feb. 13, 2002: Eric Patel, Certifications for the Software Quality and Test Professional Mar. 13, 2002: Anna Allison Memorial Presentation, Rick Brenner, Topic TBD Apr 10, 2002: Mark Shelley, Metrics May 8, 2002: Marc Rene, Defect Tracking and Reporting June 12, 2002: David Heimann, Implementing Metrics in a Software Development Project - A Case Study July 10, 2002: Annual Hot Topics Night August 2002: NO MEETING The Software Quality Group holds monthly meetings. Topics covered at these meetings have included software testing, inspections, ISO 9000, metrics configuration management, and demonstrations of vendor QA tools. There is no charge. The Software Quality Group meets monthly at 6:15pm on the second Wednesday of the month at the facilities of Sun Microsystems, Burlington, MA. Driving directions: From 128/95 Take the Rt. 3 exit heading north (not the Middlesex Turnpike exit if you're coming form the south). >From Rt. 3N take the first exit (which is Rt. 62 - Bedford Ave). Turn east toward Burlington. Approximately 0.3 mile after the interchange, turn right onto Network Drive, which leads to the campus on your right. Take the second drive off of Network Drive into the Sun parking lot. Park in the visitor lot and enter the lobby opposite the Sun clock tower. Information about future meetings will be available on the Software Quality Page at http://www.swquality.com/users/pustaver. To be on the email distribution list, send a note to pustaver@swquality.com. The Software Quality Group is cosponsored by Sun Microsystems and the ASQ Software Division and all are welcome. Directors of the Software Quality Group are John Pustaver, Region I Councilor, American Society for Quality, Software Division and Jack Morrison, Sun Microsystems. To unsubscribe, reply to this message with "Unsubscribe" as the subject. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SWQuality, Inc. Software Quality Solutions voice:978-443-4254 fax:978-443-6052 pustaver@swquality.com http://www.swquality.com Visit the Software Quality Page at http://www.swquality.com/users/pustaver/index.shtml