Start at Intergen and perfomance testing

This is my first post since joining Intergen. A pretty scary first week just trying to get to grips with the what and how of the projects and company ... seems like a good bunch of people, though.

I'm going to have to dust off the VBScript skills for the perfomance testing I'm doing with Damon. The ACT tool has some serious shortcomings in it's 'development environment' which will have the side effect of making me think HARD. This will be kind of good because it will drum in some understanding, but will probably take longer than the PM would like. In any case, it's nice to have some under the hood work to do and is precisely the kind of thing that MoE just didn't get near.

A couple of things that DC mentioned that seemed important so I will note them here while I remember.

1. DC mentioned that the is a machine config setting that needs to be watched on the webserver under test. I think in the web server machine.config file: the enableViewStateMac="false"...
2. The Client machine needs to be quite good for even emulating 100 concurrent users. As the spec is calling for 2400 for extreme load this will be interesting to try on anything that isn't massive.
3. I'll need to ensure I get permissions on the target web and db servers so I have access to the performance metrics.
   

Here is an interesting white paper from AK uni, which have yet to digest... and an interesting idea for a converted development framework.

Good Ideas

I reckon everyone has good ideas. I mean really good ideas. Ideas that would probably make you rich, powerful or insanely popular. I have two and I'm not sharing. That's the problem. Nobody shares these - and what good are they sitting in my head? Just because they require as-yet-not-invented pre-requisite technology or ridiculously large sums of capital investment doesn't mean they should be secret. Yet most of us would rather die with them than see someone else use them, profit from them or take the credit. I am damn sure I would!

Not sure at all if this idea - writing real thoughts in diarised form for public consumption- is good. Possibly risky ... but probably ill-advised (::mental note - don't post credit card details::)

By the way, you can tell ME your good idea/s and I promise I wouldn't tell.

Foundation

Right, so the environment is ready.... now I just need something to say.