Hyderabad, India AND Philadelphia, PA -- (SBWIRE) -- 06/16/2009 -- AppLabs, the world’s largest independent testing, quality management and certification solutions company, today announced that it will host a live Webinar entitled “Testing in the Cloud -Realistic Performance Load and Stress Testing”. The thirty-minute event will take place on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT / 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM GMT / 8.30 PM - 9.00 PM IST.

The cloud-computing phenomenon, a popular industry term, is fast evolving, from a futuristic technology to a commercially viable alternative. Owing to its benefits ranging from reductions in cost of ownership to location independence and its profound impact on IT and business, firms embrace this concept. As per Gartner’s prediction, by 2012, 80 percent of Fortune 1000 enterprises will pay for some cloud-computing service, while 30 percent of them will pay for cloud-computing infrastructure. But when comes to security, reliability and manageability, firms turn skeptics, turning their back to the potential benefits. AppLabs’ AVP, Ralph Decker presents an approach and methodology to web application performance testing from the Cloud -

• Using the Cloud to performance test your application for more realistic tests and usage scenarios
• Designing specific performance testing scenarios flush out performance rlated defects and bottlenecks
• Gaining a better understand performance from and end-user perspective

This Webinar is aimed at the following roles within organizations -

• CIO/IT Directors
• Web Application Developers
• Development Project Managers
• Head of Testing/Test Managers
• Test Environment Managers/Test Architects
• Testing Professionals

To register for this Webinar, please visit https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/594444585

Profile of the Presenter:

Ralph Decker
Account Management, AVP-SE Performance Testing
AppLabs

Ralph Decker is head of the global performance services technology practice at AppLabs, the world’s largest independent testing, quality management and certification solutions company. Ralph is an experienced IT development, testing, and deployment professional. Ralph has in-depth knowledge of Test Process Review and building test process improvement strategies for large organizations in the public and private sectors. Ralph has expertise advising business and IT directors to define, plan, and deliver quality assurance testing across a wide range of industry sectors. He is able to deliver tactical and strategic action plans to ensure continuous improvement of the quality assurance and testing capabilities of an organization.

As a consulting director of quality assurance for a large financial organization, Ralph defined and implemented release acceptance criteria, testing policies and procedures, best practices, product status and testing metrics, methodologies for counting and estimating defects, deployment guidelines, and post deployment verification strategies. In less than one year Ralph was able to take a project which was several years late to completion and successful deployment while moving the organization Quality Assurance and Test Team from a Testing Maturity Level 1 to level 2.

Ralph is regarded by his peers as a teacher and mentor. He is a technical thought leader and an accomplished speaker. Prior to working at AppLabs Ralph worked for KeyLabs (AppLabs acquired KeyLabs in April, 2005) and Corel, Novell and WordPerfect in various roles. Ralph Graduated from Brigham Young University in 1989.

About AppLabs:
AppLabs is the world’s largest independent testing, quality management and certification solutions company. With over a decade of experience, AppLabs has become a trusted partner to more than 600 companies, providing both quality assurance and third-party validation. Clients include American Airlines, Experian, JP Morgan, VocaLink and National Australia Bank amongst others. AppLabs goes beyond technical expertise when it comes to IT services and offers customers rigorous risk mitigation processes, a singular focus on quality, expert project management, communication and global delivery capabilities. It is the first software testing company to get appraised at SEI CMMI Level 5, the highest quality standard attainable in software engineering. Headquartered in Philadelphia, the company maintains advanced testing facilities in the US, India and the Europe. For more information, visit http://www.applabs.com

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