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It’s time for PerfBytes News of the Damned for February 18th, 2014 - this is the birthday edition edition of PerfBytes where basically we just make fun of the crashing online ticket websites in the UK, the Veterans Administration and some more high school students flood a website trying to get into college sports. Hats off again to the folks in the IT department giving Satan some true competition in the marketplace of darkness.

Being a performance tester is a lonely life. Stranded in the data center, working long nights in the freezing cold without anyone to talk to but the little running icon man in the LoadRunner Controller. But wait, you could start a Performance Center of Excellence! That way you could join forces with other performance testers and engineers at your company and then you’ll be part of a team. And you will have friends maybe for the first time in your life. In this episode of PerfBytes we’ll talk about the different things you need to know before you start consolidating tool licenses, establishing new processes, organizing your CoE and choosing a partner. We might just be scratching the surface of this complex organizational subject, so we’re sure to come back in the future to take a deeper look at the Performance Center of Excellence.

Episode formally sponsored by www.flood.io, check it out!

It’s time for PerfBytes News of the Damned for February 7th, 2014 - this is the 2014 Super Bowl edition of PerfBytes. Some project managers from the big names in advertising are probably looking for new jobs this month after outages at Maserati, Kia and Esurance. And not to be outdone, information security mayhem sends a bunch of Germans scrambling to crash a website with a name that James can’t pronounce. Ausgezeichnete Aufmerksamkeit auf Tests von der Teufels Verwandten aus Deutschland!

It'll be hard to forget this globally diverse episode covering fantastic outages from Canada, China and the UK. PerfBytes News of the Damned, where Satan heaps a heartfelt congratulations to those in the IT department who have been highlighted in the news recently for exemplary end-user punishment, website outage and system failure.

“You put your left boundary in, you put your left boundary out. You do the hokey pokey and you turn the script about.” Dynamic data correlations. (“...that’s what it’s all about”). In this episode of PerfBytes we cover the most technically complex and challenging part of load test scripting. James and I scratch the surface on this topic of transport level traffic analysis and automated scripting practices; the basic tips to help newcomers get started on the right foot. We help test managers understand the time requirements and learning curve for payload pattern mastery. You’ll learn just a few important tips to help you to master the art of dynamic data correlations.

Episode formally sponsored by www.flood.io, check it out!

Welcome to the first PerfBytes News of the Damned independent podcast segment for January 1st, 2014. As usual, our introduction from Satan heaps a heartfelt congratulations to those in the IT department who have been highlighted in the news recently for exemplary website outage and system failures. In this episode both Myer and the Bill Nye join the News of the Damned.

”Don’t look at me, boss - it’s a problem with the tool.” In particular it’s probably an incompatibility or extreme complexity with a sophisticated performance testing tool that leads you to just throw our hands in the air and point the finger at the vendor or the technology. In this episode we’ll talk about the pitfalls of such behavior, the legitimate and not-so-legitimate arguments of tool blasphemers and also what you can do as a test manager to resolve such situations.

Episode formally sponsored by www.flood.io, check it out!

Happy New Year PerfBytes listeners, this episode is dedicated to you! In this episode we review all the best items from the last twelve months of PerfBytes shows, including the #1 rated show, the best and weirdest News Of The Damned and a little bit of Prancercizing. We announce the PerfBytes Person of the Year for 2013 and the future changes to the show in 2014. Thank you all for listening and here's to prosperous pod-casting in the new year!

In this second of two episodes our friend and sponsor Tim Koopmans will be joining us again as we cover many of the virtual user scripting tips and tricks that we've learned over the many years of using almost every tool on the planet. This episode will review tips that dig a little deeper into debug logging, parameterizing test data, building scripts by hand and combining multiple protocols in your scripts. Then we cover some not-so-interesting Industry News, The News of The Damned, Ask PerfBytes and don't forget to check out the bonus tips we shared over on SoundCloud: www.soundcloud.com/perfbytes. This episode is formally sponsored by Flood.io (www.flood.io), so check it out!

Here's a suggestion: flip up that blast shield and tell old Obi Wan Kenobi to take a try at scripting up a headless driver to generate transport-layer traffic with data correlation, randomization and parameters that simulates thousands or even millions of calls against the system. It's not so easy even when you use the force, eh old man!? In this first of two episodes Tim Koopmans will be joining us as we cover many of the virtual user scripting tips and tricks that we've learned over the many years of using almost every tool on the planet. Starting with the creation of a usage model, scripting practices, commonly used functions and all sorts of great ideas to help you get the scripting perfect and maintainable. Plus the usual mayhem from News of The Damned, Black Friday, Cyber Monday and a special interview with Tim about the birth of Flood.io and where they're headed. (52)

This episode of PerfBytes is formally sponsored by our friends at Flood.io (www.flood.io).