Performance Engineering: Design & Test Issues

Abstract: “Effective software performance engineering requires that the various stakeholders of the project – performance testers, engineers, architects understand the fundamentals of performance testing, analysis and tuning.
In order to carry out effective performance tests it is very important to understand the objectives – is it to figure out the break points of the system? Is it for benchmarking? Is it for capacity planning etc? In order to design effectively for performance software engineers must understand the general performance software patterns and antipatterns.
The performance engineering group at Aztecsoft has worked with various performance engineering projects and this talk describes our experience with various stakeholders of the system and highlights the common mistakes that affect such projects. The speaker will share common performance testing blunders and common performance antipatterns that affects the system”

Profile: Jyothi Bacche is a Prinicipal Architect working at Aztecsoft since past three and a half years and is a key member of Aztecsoft Labs group – a technology incubation and solutions center and works closely with the CTO of Aztecsoft. She heads the delivery excellence, SOA/SAAS practices at Aztecsoft and also provides consultancy and architectural solutions to key projects.

She has 17 years experience in the software industry and comes with a wide range of technology experience. She is a middle ware expert and has been working in the distributed computing world from DCE to J2EE technology areas and has wide experience in the design and development of large enterprise applications and software products. She has been working with distributed applications using DCE, CORBA, Java and J2EE technologies since 1999 and started the COE (Centre of Excellence) for Java based technology at Aztecsoft. She started the Performance Engineering practice at Aztecsoft, an initiative towards providing value added services to our customers. This PE team provided services to customers in the entire lifecycle of Performance Engineering including Performance requirements, Performance Testing, Analysis, Tuning, Capacity planning, Regression and Benchmarking.