Comments on: New book on Performance Testing

By: Sargon Benjamin

Sargon Benjamin — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:55:37 +0000

Kudos to Scott for helping author the guide. I actually worked for Alberto Savoia (Agitar Founder/CTO), one of the folks who wrote a foreward for the guide. The guide itself is awesome and informative though it can be verbose in some areas. Maybe thats just the MS guidelines at work :) I’ll keep my eyes on the lookout for an update should you choose to do so. For now, I can only say thanks BIG time.

By: Corey Goldberg

Corey Goldberg — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:25:21 +0000

Well hopefully you will go forward with your book anyway. The more published material about performance testing, the better!

all you need is a new title :)

By: Scott Barber

Scott Barber — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:12:47 +0000

I guess it’s lucky for me then, that the only part of the title that I had any part in selecting was the word “Guidance”. ;)

I can’t tell you how good it feels to read positive feedback about the book. I won’t bore you with the details, but imagine what it’s like trying to write a tool, technology, & process agnostic book where 3 members of the core team and at least half of the reviewers have more than enough content to write the book on their own, with a goal of not alienating any of the industry factions, with remote & asynchronous team members, within the bounds of the MS style-guide and bureaucracy, and without the message getting watered down to the point of uselessness. I think it was almost as complicated as actually *doing* good performance testing! :)

All kidding aside, there are parts of the book that I love and parts that I’m already ready to re-write. That said, if the book does nothing other than give the authors, trainers, bloggers, researchers, and doers a common point of reference to debate over and grow from, then I will be happy with the outcome (even if ALL of the growth ends up being counter to the guidance in the book!)

I would like to encourage folks to submit reviews on Amazon. I don’t make any money off of book sales, so please don’t hesitate to add the link to the .pdf version or the MSN web-based version if you’d rather not promote the “dead tree” format, as Stuart put it.

Happy reading!
Scott

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Scott Barber
President & Chief Technologist, PerfTestPlus, Inc.
Vice President & Executive Director, Association for Software Testing
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http://www.associationforsoftwaretesting.org
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By: Linden

Linden — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:03:09 +0000

Thanks Stu…I love you in a professional way ;)

By: Chris Meisenzahl

Chris Meisenzahl — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:05:13 +0000

I grabbed that last week myself, good stuff! ;-)

Chris
http://amateureconblog.blogspot.com/

By: Dmitry Motevich

Dmitry Motevich — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:02:29 +0000

I’ve started reading of this book.
Actually, this is an excellent book for any performance tester. A kind of “must have” book :)

Thank you, Stuart, for sharing info on this book!

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:57:20 +0000

ooh excellent! I will get started reading immediately and share this link with my coworkers! (The props will all be mine)

Thanks Stu!