HP Discover – Las Vegas 2013

My followers on Twitter and LinkedIn will already be aware that I went to the HP Discover conference in Las Vegas last week. They’ll have heard tales of lost baggage, extreme “jet-lag induced tiredness” (body-clock waking me at 3:30 every morning) as well as various updates from the conference.

People go to the conference for a variety of reasons; to hear the keynote speeches, attend NDA sessions, see application demonstrations or to meet HP product managers,R&D teams or other experts. I’ve been part of Vivit for over 4 years now and before that I was a member of the Mercury software user group. For me the highlight of my conference was meeting up with a group of fellow testers one evening over a glass or two of whisky (thanks Mr Moore)

Left to Right. Wilson Mar, Scott Hysmith, James Pulley, Richard Bishop, Scott Moore
Left to Right. Wilson Mar, Scott Hysmith, James Pulley, Richard Bishop, Scott Moore

These testers have inspired me from my first days as a tester when I used to frequent Wilson Mar’s website and Scott Moore’s loadtester.com. I knew James Pulley through his moderation of Google, Yahoo and StackOverflow LoadRunner groups and more recently I’ve been listening to James Pulley and Mark Tomlinson’s PerfBytes podcasts.

I sincerely hope that this becomes a regular event at conferences. It was great to finally meet these people face to face and “put the testing world to rights” 🙂

Author: Richard Bishop

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