Events
The Mobile World Congress
Date: February 27 - March 1
Barcelona, Spain
Fred Berringer to attend 2012′s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Read more about it.
No longer limited only to communications, mobile is now a force transforming our world in an unprecedented way. Mobile connects, entertains, informs and inspires us, ultimately changing how we live and who we are. Mobile World Congress is the global epicenter of this redefinition as our participants enable, lead and accelerate it. Join us in Redefining Mobile at Mobile World Congress 2012, which will be held 27 February to 1 March at Fira Montjuïc in Barcelona, Spain.
StarEAST 2012
Date: April 15-20, 2012
Orlando, Florida
The Selenium Conference
Date: April 16-18
London, England
The Selenium Conference brings together Selenium developers & enthusiasts from around the world to share ideas, socialize, and work together on advancing the present and future success of the project. The conference begins Monday with all-day workshops, followed by two days of talks. We’ll have a main track and a second informal track for other presentations. There will be pair-coding sessions throughout the day, as well as opportunities to get Selenium advice and tutorials from experts. We’re having a kickoff party Monday night and a speaker dinner
Tuesday night.
STP Conference
Date: March 26-29
New Orleans, Louisiana
Software Test Professionals Conference is one of the leading conferences for testers. This Spring’s conference will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, March 26-29, 2012 at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel & Resort. Join other software test professionals including testers, test and QA managers and senior test professionals to network and receive advanced education to meet your challenges. Learn about the latest tools, trends and issues affecting software testing.
Velocity
Date: June 25-27
Santa Clara, CA
Web performance, operations, and mobile performance are essential ingredients in every company’s online strategy. The business value of “fast and reliable” has been established, and stakeholders are demanding more and better results now. Velocity gives you the skills and tools you need to master this ever-shifting, increasingly complex domain. Now in its fifth year, Velocity has become the must-attend event for web ops and performance professionals.
Structure
Date: June 20-21
San Francisco, CA
In its fifth year, Structure will convene in San Francisco to bring together the leaders innovating, shaping and defining the ongoing evolution in the technology industry – cloud computing. The shift to the cloud isn’t just a change in the way IT is organized and delivered, but it will also become the impetus for a new way of building chips, servers, networking and the other building blocks of the computing industry.
Getting Started with CloudTest Lite
Date: January 17, 2012
Join this webinar to learn the basics of test creation, execution and analysis with CloudTest Lite. SOASTA’s expert Performance Engineers will teach you to:
• Quickly build tests with visual test creation tools
• Build, compose, run and analyze web performance test of any complexity
• Scale tests up to 100 simultaneous users
• Test using the latest technologies: AJAX, Silverlight, Flash, HTML5, and SOAP and REST web services
• Analyze tests in real-time through interactive, integrated dashboards
Webinar: Run More Tests & Find More Issues
Do you get so mired in the complexity of building tests, obtaining and provisioning hardware, collecting data, and analyzing results that you only have time for a few large tests? Would you rather rapidly execute a series of tests with incremental and progressive objectives? An effective performance-testing approach minimizes pre-test preparation and focuses on productive issue identification and resolution.
In this webinar, join Dr. Neil Gunther, Creator of Guerilla Capacity Planning, and Dan Bartow, SOASTA’s VP of Performance Engineering, to learn how to execute more tests that deliver actionable information in less time. You will learn:
• How to reduce time-to-test with rapid test development
• Why it is critical to run many iterative performance tests
• Why control is key when running tests in production environments
• How to collect and correlate relevant data across the entire system under test
Dr. Gunther will explore transforming performance data into actionable information. Then Dan Bartow will demonstrate how one of the world’s largest retailers is using CloudTest to execute hundreds of tests in preparation for the upcoming holiday season.
STP Conference
Date: October 24-27, 2011
Dallas, Texas
SOASTA’s Dan Bartow will be speaking at STP Conference
201 : Real World Performance Testing in Production
Tuesday, 11:45am – 1:00pm
Online application performance is critical – no one would challenge this statement. Yet the dirty little secret in the web world is that the amount of performance testing done on applications is appallingly low. When performance testing is done it’s usually conducted in a test lab. Even with thorough testing in a lab environment, when applications are deployed to production they very frequently topple under the pressure of real-word users. The results from this investment in lab testing are not delivering the answers that leadership needs about web application performance. Simply put, the lab is not the production environment. Running a few hundred virtual users in a small lab does not mean that you can support twenty times as much load in the production environment. Yet this kind of extrapolation is being done all throughout the industry.
Testing in production is an essential component of world-class performance methodologies. However, this approach is not without it’s own set of challenges; the three most common of which are security, test data in production, and potential live customer impact. In this session you’ll learn key elements from the methodology that companies are using to enable production testing and subsequently gain the highest confidence possible in their production application performance and reliability. How can you possibly place 10,000 test orders on an e-commerce site without having that many vacuum cleaners show up on your doorstep? How could you securely create 300,000 test accounts in production and leave them out there on a financial services application? Come to this session and learn how businesses from the New York Stock Exchange to Netflix have solved these problems to enable ongoing production testing.
Mobile Application Performance Testing – Real Devices, Real Locations, Real Traffic
Date: Thursday, July 28th
Webinar
Whether your organization is developing consumer-facing mobile content, or providing mobile apps to internal employees, you are tasked with ensuring high quality, reliable applications. This means testing early and testing often. However, with the launch of new devices every month on new platforms and networks, geographically distributed users, unpredictable traffic patterns, and applications delivered through complex and distributed components, ensuring high performance is a challenge.
In this webinar DeviceAnywhere and SOASTA performance engineers will discuss and demonstrate how to:
- Test end user experience from real mobile devices, while your system is experiencing peak traffic
- Test from distributed locations with accurate test scenarios and actual devices
- Test any mobile business process under extreme conditions
- Combine and correlate end-to-end performance metrics on a single timeline
- Test with unparalleled speed and agility
Velocity – The Place for Web Performance
Date: June 14-16, 2011
Booth #510 - Santa Clara Convention Center
Now in its fourth year, Velocity—the Web Performance and Operations conference from O’Reilly Media is the premier technical event dedicated to optimizing every aspect of your company’s website. It’s the convergence of performance and site reliability experts and rock stars who share the information critical to building and scaling fast and reliable websites and services. What you’ll learn at Velocity is crucial for companies to shine when it hits the fan and will have a positive, direct impact on the bottom line. Visit us as booth #510.
Datacentres 2011
Date: May 5-6, 2011
Europe’s largest content forum will focus on data centres and cloud technologies. SOASTA’s session, “Testing Production Environment at Scale Using the Cloud”, will describe a performance testing methodology for testing all levels of infrastructure and software to uncover issues in real time, and ultimately tests true production environments at scale.
IBM Impact
Date: April 10-15, 2011
Las Vegas, NV
The IBM Impact 2011 Global Conference will bring together more than 6,600 technology and business leaders at a single event for a transformative learning opportunity. Never has it been more important to work smarter for better business outcomes.
Montgomery Technology Conference
Date: March 8 & 9, 2011
Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows
Santa Monica CA
Cloud Performance Summit
Date: March 7, 2011 1:15-4:30pm
The Cloud Performance Summit at Cloud Connect 2011 in Santa Clara, CA featured an impressive array of vendors and end users discussing important issues around performance in on-demand environments.
Cloud Connect 2011
Date: March 7 – 10, 2011
Free, Live Performance Testing in Booth 515 Santa Clara Convention Center,
Santa Clara CA
SOASTA is offering FREE performance testing at booth #515, from 12-2pm and again from 4:30-6pm. Visit our booth with your URL, and we will analyze your web site’s performance in real time. Whether it’s behind a firewall or deployed on the cloud, see how easy and affordable it can be to reduce the risk of poor performance by testing at scale. For a free Expo pass, use promotion code CNXDCC01 to register at www.cloudconnectevent.com.
