Through the mistakes, lessons, and victories, I've developed a perspective on automation that I call Automation 2.0. Automation 2.0 involves free opensource, agile methods. It gets results, reduces costs, and adds value.2.0 centers on the essential: a tester making a test, and 2.0 has its roots in free opensource and has a pace of evolution in tools and approach that leaves traditional tools and methods in the dust.I've put together a framework that I use, called BOOM, that wraps Automation 2.0…See More

If you've been using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and your instances error, or behave strangely, especially under load, then you may have run into the same dirty secret I did.I suspected something amiss with EC2 instances go sideways a while back. As a software load tester, I am often running systems on EC2 on large scale and frequently observe these systems erroring out and performing poorly -- and otherwise behaving inconsistently with what I've observed on bare metal or even other…See More