Scott Barber's Google TechTalk is now available here.

Description: Google TechTalks April 24, 2006 Scott Barber Scott Barber is the CTO of PerfTestPlus, Inc. and Co-Founder of the Workshop on Performance and Reliability (WOPR).

Scott's particular specialties are testing and analyzing performance for complex systems, developing customized testing methodologies, group facilitation and authoring instructional materials.

ABSTRACT: Modeling application usage is more than just parsing log files and calculating page frequencies. Whether we are analyzing navigation path effectiveness, planning for scenario testing, documenting performance test workload models or mapping services or objects to user activity having a single, intuitive picture to reference makes the job easier.

In this session, we'll explore a highly adaptable method for visualizing application usage and how to use this model to improve cross-functional team communication without requiring team members to invest time learning some new fad of a modeling language that they'll probably never use again.

This method references UCML™ which has been described as "what collaboration diagrams should have been."

This highly recommended article by Josh Christie, Software Design Engineer for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005—Web and Load Testing, targets testers and developers who want to learn some techniques for creating effective Web tests and for debugging them to ensure they run as intended.

For those of you who do not use the Microsoft tool, but are interested to learn about some common pitfalls in performance testing, this article addresses them all.

Josh also maintains an informative blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/joshch/