Recently, Tom Cagley of Software Process and Measurement Cast interviewed me concerning load testing. Tom’s blogs and podcasts are focused on interviews, essays, facts and tips about process improvement and measurement in the Information Technology arena. INTERVIEW IS HERE
Tom is Vice President, Director of Process Improvement and Measurement at David Consulting Group, and the author of the hit book Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques. The book has received all 5-star ratings on Amazon.com.
Our load testing interview not only talks about web performance and stress testing, but it touches on several ancillary subjects of interest to Tom from his perspective with Agile software development. I have worked with LEAN manufacturing process, and Tom applies many of the best practices from this successful discipline in his approach to software development. One mantra of LEAN is, “You can’t control what you can’t measure.” Tom has a keen emphasis on measurement of any metric that can help a team deliver better software.
In fact, he has written several blog posts about Seven Deadly Sins of Measurement Programs that could be quite beneficial to developers studying load testing because measurement of metrics is critical to all web system performance.