Interviewing & Hiring Software Performance Test Professionals

Interviewing & Hiring Software Performance Test Professionals
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Forward
Contents
List of Figures
Chapter 1 Who Is This Book For?
Chapter 2 Who Do You need?
	Your Funnel
		Economic Oddities
		Systems Reliability Engineer (SRE)
			Resource Flowchart Legend
Chapter 3 The Performance Test
	Dude! I Just Need Someone Who Can Run A Test!
	Where Is Value Added In The Process?
Chapter 4 Foundations
	Role Legend
	Architecture
		Monitoring extensibility
	Communications Skills
		Always A Good Story (Or Two Or Three or …)
	Programming Skills
	Project Management Skills
		Planning and Budgeting
	Statistics
	Research Skills
	Requirements!
	Testing Acumen
	Tool Skill vs Human Skill
		Futures
	(Finally) That Tool Thing
		Open–Source vs Commercial capabilities
			Figure 4.4 keys
	Closing Out The Foundations
		The Chart!
Chapter 5 Challenges
	Online Banks of Questions
	“Meat Puppet”
	In–Person Interviews
	Social Promotion
	Exit Strategy
	Antipatterns & Candidates
Last Word
Appendix
	Figure 4.3 Support Data
		Apache JMeter
		Gatling
		Locust
		SmartBear LoadNinja
		Micro Focus LoadRunner
		Akamai CloudTest
		CA BlazeMeter
		Tricentis Flood.io
		Octoperf
Glossary