On Thursday 4th February 2016, West Ham United Football Club's official ticketing system, http://www.whufcboxoffice.com, was displaying the following queuing page to visitors:
‘Move fast and break things’ is a development mantra popularised by Facebook and picked up with enthusiasm by software development teams both small and large. The idea is that if you aren’t breaking things you’re...
The post Xmas period is typically a busy period for online retailers with peak trading around the Boxing Day and New Year’s Day sales. In our experience up to 1% of the annual online sales revenue can be seen on...
The UK National Lottery web site crashed on January 9, 2016. This blog discusses the likely impact and measures to avoid crashes in the future.
Camelot Group have been operating the United Kingdom’s national lottery...
In my previous blog I touched upon several areas where the value of Agile performance testing could be improved. This blog continues with the same theme, considering 6 additional ideas to improve the testing.
The challenge of integrating performance testing into agile development methodology is not inconsiderable and often involves a steep learning curve. Performance testing pressures are amplified by constraints such as...
