In a special zdnet podcast Dana Gardner, as part of the BriefingsDirect podcast series, reports from the HP Software Universe 2010 Conference in Washington, D.C.

In McKesson shows bringing testing tools on the road improves speed to market and customer satisfaction the conference  focuses on major enterprise software and solutions trends and innovations making news across HP’s ecosystem of customers, partners, and developers.

The podcast contains an interview with  Todd Eaton, Director of Application Lifecycle Management Tools in the CTO’s office at McKesson.  McKesson Corp. are a provider of certified healthcare information technology, including electronic health records, medical billing, and claims management software. McKesson is a user of HP’s project-based performance testing products used to make sure that applications perform in the field as intended throughout their lifecycle.

The article contains a good insight into Testing within McKesson as well as testing on client sites.

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What is LMbench?

* Suite of simple, portable benchmarks

* Compares different systems performance

* Results available for most major vendors (SUN, HP, IBM, DEC, SGI, PCs including 200 Mhz P6’s)

* Free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.

* Bandwidth benchmarks

o Cached file read
o Memory copy (bcopy)
o Memory read
o Memory write
o Pipe
o TCP

* Latency benchmarks

o Context switching.

o Networking: connection establishment, pipe, TCP, UDP, and RPC hot potatoo File system creates and deletes.
o Process creation.

o Signal handling
o System call overhead
o Memory read latency

* Miscellaneous

Download LMbench documentation

• January ‘96 Usenix paper (76K, gzipped)
• June ‘98 Usenix paper on Mhz (239K, gzipped)
• Manual pages