Scott Barber is the Chief Technologist of PerfTestPlus, Vice President of Operations and Executive Director of the Association for Software Testing, Co-Founder of the Workshop on Performance and Reliability and co-author of the Microsoft Patterns&Practices book, Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications. Scott’s particular specialties are training software testers, testing and analyzing application performance, developing customized testing methodologies, and authoring instructional materials. Scott is an international keynote speaker and contributor to various software testing publications. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, American MENSA, the Context-Driven School of Software Testing and is a signatory to the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.