A while ago I answered the following question on SearchSoftwareQuality.com’s Ask The Software Quality Expert: Questions & Answers.

Can you please tell me which tools are suitable for load and stress testing?

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I've found all of those tools to be good solutions, depending on what I was testing. Along with each of those tools, I often use a host of monitoring tools, anything from the simple like Perfmon to the complex like CA Wily Introscope . If I had to choose one for Web services testing, I'd probably choose soapUI. If I had to choose one for websites, I like IBM Rational Performance Tester. For everything else under the sun, HP Mercury LoadRunner probably has a plug-in that supports it. In general I prefer open source to commercial, but if the commercial solution is a better solution for my problem, I'll pay up.

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A while ago I answered the following question on SearchSoftwareQuality.com’s Ask The Software Quality Expert: Questions & Answers.

I'm looking for multiple QA methodologies/methods from start to finish in software development. I need to make a recommendation on which methodology would work best for our environment. The approach to QA where testing is done at the end of the SDLC is flawed because critical decisions have been made and without input from the testers. Do know of a good resource for this information? Thank you.

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My current team uses session-based test management to manage our exploratory testing. We have to integrate that into Scrum using two-week sprints. We also have to manage large suites of regression tests, which to a great extent require us to work outside of the session-based test management chartering, testing, and debrief process. We also have to track and trace some of our work back to client-facing project plans, which requires some additional overhead and we've started to pull some V-Model elements in to help with managing that.

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