Well, as a performance test lead I’ve been getting more involved in the hiring process.

To cut through the chaff, these are some of the questions I like to ask potential candidates. What’s your favourite questions? How might you answer these?

I also like to follow up these questions with a half hour practical scripting in VuGen [...]

When/if I am asked to conduct interviews again for potential performance test analysts, I think I will include this question in my repertoire to suss out those in the know, and those just, um, pretending …

Here is a great analogy of throughput and latency. I don’t pretend to understand queuing theory (just yet), but am [...]

I’ve recently started following a blog which sets weekly programming challenges. I’m getting sick of Nintendo DS brain training and thought I’d try something more relevant to my line of work. Also, this gives me a good opportunity to learn more about my favoured scripting language at present, which is Ruby. So this week’s challenge [...]