A tiny “mini-lab” for OneNote test

As I was walking down the hallway to a coworkers office this morning, I noticed one section of the hallway was a little bit noisier than it used to be. There was a closed office door there and I heard someone inside what was a vacant office. I knocked and Gary opened the door. This is what I saw:

He's apparently setting up a "mini-lab" to run some performance tests. He and some other folks have scrounged up some machines and are getting this set up today to get the performance work going. I always enjoy seeing setups like this - it just looks like a lot of fun is about to happen in the test world.

Of course, it is a lot of hard work to get something like this set up. Simply cabling the machines together takes a good amount of time, and I know how hard it is to get automation running across several machines at once. And this is just the setup in this one office - there are plenty of other machines all tied in together here to get the entire system going.

What is really unusual here is that there are 18 visible machines (2 more are out of the camera view) but only one mouse, monitor and keyboard.

I look forward to seeing what results we get from this system!

Questions, comments, concerns and criticisms always welcome,

John

Comments

• Anonymous
  March 12, 2012
  Good One

• Anonymous
  March 13, 2012
  I keep loosing notes OneNote in 2012 as I did in the 2007 version.

• Anonymous
  March 13, 2012
  The lab is probably set up to try to fix the problems with OneNote 2010 before the release of Windows 8 and OneNote 2012 or 2015

• Anonymous
  March 14, 2012
  it's a shredder