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WOPR is a series of peer workshops for performance engineers & testers, operations planners, development managers, and related
professionals. In these workshops, subject matter experts and experienced working practitioners share their experiences, which
are used to facilitate group discussions of issues in systems performance, reliability, scalability and recoverability. The
workshops emphasize mutual learning, sharing hands-on experiences and discussing practical problems.
Participants work with different kinds of technologies in large Internet businesses, life-critical embedded device
manufacturers, telecom providers, small startups, energy companies, the military, and enterprise ERP and insurance LOB systems.
As we compare our experiences from different contexts, we find commonalities and boundaries in our models, practices and thinking.
WOPR is organized
by a small team of highly experienced practitioners in
performance and reliability testing.
Invitations to WOPR Conferences
We limit the size of each WOPR conference to 20-25 seats, based on the facility, theme, and participants.
Presentations are
usually by advanced-level, seasoned practitioners, and it is fair to say that some are world-class experts.
WOPR conferences are often oversubscribed. We are not able to invite everyone that applies, and of those we invite, not
everyone presents. Nevertheless, we strive to give every serious inquirer a reasonable chance to attend. We reserve a few
invitations for newcomers who have a passion for the field.
How to Get Invited
The best way is to get invited is to submit a proposal presentation through this web site.
Another way is to provide a reference or two from experienced performance testers who know your work. Don't be intimidated
if you do not have industry recognized references - most WOPR attendees didn't when they attended their first conference,
yet still had valuable experiences to share.
A third way is to engage us in dialog and inform us about
what you have to offer and what you hope to gain by attending.
Finally, don't give up if you are not invited. There is always next time, and persistence is evidence that you share our
goals of building a community of performance testing professionals and advancing the state of the art.
Click here to learn more
about WOPR.
View articles
resulting from previous WOPRs.
View details (theme, location, date, etc) for
the next workshop
and submit the WOPR application.
Review themes, select papers,
summaries and comments from previous workshops.
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