Using virtualization to improve quality and shorten QA time

Michael O'Leary at Robert Half Technology asked me to speak to some of their clients on virtualization and how it has helped me in my QA efforts. Here are the handouts and slides:

• handouts (doc format)
• slides (pdf format)

I used a variety of online resources to prepare for my presentation:

Introduction

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popek_and_Goldberg_virtualization_requirements
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor

Resources

• http://www.infoworld.com/topic-center/virtualization/&source=fssr
• http://www.virtualization.info/

x86 Hardware Support for Virtualization

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization
• http://www.intel.com/technology/virtualization/
• http://www.amd.com/us-en/0,,3715_15781,00.html

Virtualization Providers
(extremely abbreviated; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_platform_virtual_machines)

• http://www.vmware.com
• http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization
• http://www.xen.org
• http://www.virtualbox.org
• http://citrix.com

Automated Testing Tools
Continuous integration (Hudson): https://hudson.dev.java.net
Technical debt: http://sonar.codehaus.org
Automated testing: http://wtr.rubyforge.org/ http://seleniumhq.org/

Cloud Computing

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
• http://www.infoq.com/articles/cloud-comparison
• http://www.johnmwillis.com/cloud-computing/cloud-vendors-a-to-z-revised/
• http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/
• http://www.mosso.com/
• http://www.gogrid.com/

My thanks to Michael, Robert Half Technology and the attendees.