Scott Barber, Chief Technologist of PerfTestPlus, is renowned as the industry leader in delivering performant systems, a thought-leading software tester who is best known for being “one of the most energetic and entertaining” speakers in the industry and as a prolific author (including his blog, over 100 articles, and the books Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications, Beautiful Testing, How to Reduce the Cost of Testing & Web Load Testing for Dummies.) Scott Co-Founded WOPR, served as a Director of both the AST and CMG, is a member of ACM, IEEE, American MENSA, the Context-Driven School of Software Testing, is a signatory to the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, and thinks of himself as an industry activist. His writing, speaking, consulting, training and industry activism all focus on improving the effectiveness and business alignment of software development practices.

Today, Scott is focused on enhancing and promoting his thoughts on delivering world-class system performance in complex business and technical environments and is actively driving the integration of commercial software testing practices with the goals of software producing businesses.

When he’s not “being a geek,” Scott enjoys spending time with his partner Dawn, and his sons Nicholas and Taylor at home and in other interesting places his accumulated frequent flier miles enable them to explore.

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