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The Future of Performance Testing, London, 25th October

Date 29 June 2026

Author Team Capacitas

Price: £125+VAT

Scheduled Dates: Monday 25th October 2010

This seminar is designed to:

  • Identify the modern challenges in conducting performance testing
  • Discuss performance testing in an Agile development environment
  • Evaluate performance testing tools to determine which are most cost-effective
  • Meet the challenges of testing using virtualised load injectors, test environments and production environments

Seminar Agenda

Timetable
9:00 - 9:30 Registration & Coffee/Tea
9:30 - 9:45 Welcome and Introduction
Danny Quilton, Chief Executive Officer, CapacitasPerformance testing is becoming an increasingly important process for managing the risk to service performance and availability. Yet at the same time, it is becoming an increasingly complex and challenging process to deliver. This seminar will highlight those complexities and challenges and outline some approaches to address them based on our experience with client engagements.
09:45 - 10:30 KEYNOTE: The Challenge of Performance Testing
James Mackay, Test Manager, easyJet
This session will describe the key challenges that easyJet face when conducting performance testing.
10:30 - 11:15 Aligning Performance Testing with Agile Development
Thomas Barns, Consultant, Capacitas
Agile development presents the performance tester with unique challenges but also unique opportunities. Performance testing can become an integral part of the end to end development process, influencing design and development decisions and ensuring that performance issues are caught and fixed early in the development lifecycle. This paper presents processes and methods that Capacitas have successfully used with easyJet, focussing on the following benefits:
  • Early testing and intervention to fix performance issues before release
  • Faster testing and analysis, allowing more test cycles to be executed
  • Cutting infrastructure costs by ensuring minimal resource impact
11:15 - 11:30 Coffee/tea
11:30 - 12:15 Cost-effective Performance Testing Tools
Sameena Hassam, Consultant, Capacitas
Deciding on a suitable tool to conduct performance testing requires a number of factors to be considered. The objective of this session is to provide key information to assist in this decision. Three tools from various points of the cost spectrum will be evaluated against the following criteria:
  • Maturity and availability of expertise
  • Script development
  • Data generation
  • Load generation
  • Network bandwidth simulation
  • Server monitoring
  • Total cost

The following tools will be evaluated:

  • HP LoadRunner
  • Site Confidence Load Testing
  • Apache JMeter

Finally, the potential of employing multiple tools to achieve greater performance testing capability at a more competitive cost will be discussed.
12:15 - 13:00 Buffet lunch and networking
13:00 - 13:45 Performance Testing for Virtualised Environments
Paul Seaton-Smith, Principal Consultant, Capacitas
The prevalence of server virtualisation has introduced a number of complexities into the art of performance testing. This session will discuss factors to consider when:
  • Performance testing against virtualised test environments
  • Performance testing systems that will be virtualised when in production
  • Using virtual machines as load injectors
13:45 - 14:00 Question & Answer Panel Session
Chair: Danny Quilton
Panel: Thomas Barns, Sameena Hassam, Paul Seaton-Smith

 

 
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Team Capacitas

Capacitas is a cloud and AI value partner. We translate rapid technological change into enduring commercial advantage by converting every unit of compute into enterprise value.

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