Enterprise testing to make your application foolproof
Lone Star Software Symposium: Dallas
Dallas · June 4 - 6, 2010
About this Presentation
Enterprise software solutions are an essential part of many large enterprises. Given the critical role enterprise software solutions play, it is imperative that they are tested effectively and efficiently all the time. It is as important, if not the most important, as any other phase of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). But testing an enterprise application is easier said than done.
This presentation targets seasoned software developers, testers and project managers who are looking for guidance in implementing an effective application testing strategy. We will discuss the rationale behind application enterprise testing and explore building blocks of effective testing and explain their importance. Then we will explore how to do effective root-cause analysis. We will discuss the typical output of a performance test and how to perform effective analysis. We will learn the effects of particular software environments on testing. The approach is generic; so many details regarding your applications will depend on the characteristics of the technologies you use.
Later on we will explore at two tools PushToTest and CloudTest to automatically test web applications. Attendees will learn different test strategies for testing.
Enterprise software solutions are an essential part of many large enterprises. Given the critical role enterprise software solutions play, it is imperative that they are tested effectively and efficiently all the time. It is as important, if not the most important, as any other phase of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). But testing an enterprise application is easier said than done.
This presentation targets seasoned software developers, testers and project managers who are looking for guidance in implementing an effective application testing strategy. We will discuss the rationale behind application enterprise testing and explore building blocks of effective testing and explain their importance. Then we will explore how to do effective root-cause analysis. We will discuss the typical output of a performance test and how to perform effective analysis. We will learn the effects of particular software environments on testing. The approach is generic; so many details regarding your applications will depend on the characteristics of the technologies you use.
Later on we will explore at two tools PushToTest and CloudTest to automatically test web applications. Attendees will learn different test strategies for testing.
Director, AI & Data Architecture at Salesforce | Author | Enterprise AI
Rohit Bhardwaj is a Director of AI & Data Architecture at Salesforce, where he focuses on enterprise AI, agentic systems, cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, data platforms, security, and large-scale transformation.
Over his career, Rohit has designed and led complex enterprise platforms across AWS, Google Cloud, microservices, real-time data, API ecosystems, resilient distributed systems, and AI-enabled architectures. His work increasingly focuses on the challenges enterprises face as software evolves from deterministic services to AI-native and agentic systems—particularly around reliability, governance, evidence, security, observability, cost, and safe autonomy.
Rohit is the author of System Design with AI Interview Guide: Designing Scalable, Agentic, and Defensible Systems, published by Apress. The book presents a modern approach to system design covering scalability, distributed systems, AI architecture primitives, security, reliability, economics, agentic systems, and real-world architectures including e-commerce, ride sharing, payments, fraud detection, messaging, video streaming, file storage, and search. (Springer Link)
Book:
Amazon: https://a.co/d/09Zs1twa
Publisher / Springer Nature: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/979-8-8688-2782-2
O'Reilly: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/system-design-with/9798868827822/
Rohit is also an O’Reilly instructor and a frequent speaker at technology conferences including No Fluff Just Stuff, UberConf, GIDS, and other international events. His talks focus on practical architecture lessons from building and operating complex systems, including AI control planes, trusted agents, inference at scale, evidence-first RAG, AI security, distributed-system failure, and AI-era software architecture.
As a trusted advisor and architecture leader, Rohit works at the intersection of business strategy and deep technical architecture—helping teams translate complex business problems into scalable, resilient, secure, and economically sustainable systems.
Rohit holds an MBA in Corporate Entrepreneurship from Babson College and graduate-level education in Computer Science from Boston University and Harvard University.
Connect with Rohit:
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/rohit-bhardwaj-cloud
X / Twitter: @rbhardwaj1