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If all testers put all their many skills in a pot, surely everyone would come away with something new to try out. Every tester can learn something from other testers. But can a tester learn something from a ski-instructor?

An inflexible approach to performance testing is a prelude to disaster. "What you see at the start isn't always what you get in the end," says Jeff Jewell.

The system of apprenticeship was first developed in the late Middle Ages. The uneducated and inexperienced were employed by a master craftsman in exchange for formal training in a particular craft.

Learning from a production system failure is not a model MassMutual Financial Group would have chosen.

The PMBOK outlines the specific actions required for proper risk management. In this third installment of Michele Sliger's four-part column series, she looks at this risk management process and determines how compliance with the PMBOK practices correspond to activities that an agile team might do.

As a manager, you want to select and develop people with the talents to become great testers, the ability to learn the skills of great testers, and the willingness to work hard in order to become great testers.

Join experts Scott Barber and Ross Collard for a lively discussion/debate on leading edge performance testing tools and methods.