Better Software - July/August 2008 - (Page SW5) wedNesday, oCtober 1 8:30 8:45 10:00 11:00 Opening remarks — Conference Chair - Lee Copeland, Software Quality Engineering testing Lessons from Springfield—Home of the Simpsons — Rob Sabourin, AmiBug.com telling your exploratory Story — Jon Bach, Quardev, Inc. Networking Break • visit the Testing eXPO, 10:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. test Management 11:30 test techniques w Using Failure Modes to Power 2 Up Your Testing test automation w Adventures with Test Monkeys 3 John Fodeh, Hewlett-Packard Personal excellence w Five Things Every Tester 4 Must Do Julie Gardiner, Grove Consultants Special topics w Fun with Regulated Testing 5 John McConda, Mobius Test Labs w The Myth of Risk Management 1 Pete McBreen, Software Craftsmanship, Inc. Dawn Haynes, PerfTestPlus, Inc. 12:30 1:45 lunch • Visit the testing eXPo w Great Test Teams Don’t Just 6 Happen w Test Estimation: Painful or 11 Painless? Lloyd Roden, Grove Consultants Jane Fraser, Electronic Arts w Understanding Test Coverage 7 Michael Bolton, DevelopSense w Automate API Tests with 8 Windows PowerShell Nikhil Bhandari, Intuit w What Price Truth? When a 9 Tester is Asked to Lie Fiona Charles, Quality Intelligence, Inc. w The Case Against Test Cases 10 James Bach, Satisfice, Inc. w The Power of Specially Gifted 15 Software Testers 3:00 w Exploratory Testing: The Next 12 Generation David Gorena Elizondo, Microsoft w Test Automation Techniques for w Top Ten Non-Technical Skills 13 Dynamic and Data Intensive Systems 14 for Better Testing Chris Condron, The Hanover Group Krishna Iyer and Mukesh Mulchandani, ZenTEST Labs Thorkil Sonne, Specialisterne 4:00 4:30 5:30 Networking Break • Visit the testing eXPo, 3:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Six thinking Hats for Software testers — Julian Harty, Google Reception in the eXPO Hall, 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. thursday, oCtober 2 8:30 Branch Out Using Classification trees — Julie Gardiner, Grove Consultants test Management 9:45 t 1 Quality Metrics for Testers: Evaluating Our Products, Evaluating Ourselves Lee Copeland, Software Quality Engineering test techniques t 2 Patterns and Practices for Model-Based Testing Keith Stobie, Microsoft test automation t 3 End-to-End Test Automation for Complex Systems Thomas Thunell, Ericsson AB the new wave t 4 Testing AJAX Applications with Open Source Tools Frank Cohen, PushToTest Special topics t 5 Man and Machine: Combining Tools with the Human Mind Jonathan Kohl, Kohl Concepts, Inc. BOnUS SeSSiOn—testing Dialogues: Management issues — Rob Sabourin, AmiBug.com and Jon Bach, Quardev, Inc. 10:45 11:15 t 6 Networking Break • visit the Testing eXPO, 10:30 a.m.– 3:00 p.m. Calculate the Value of Testing: It’s Not Just About Cost Leo van der Aalst, Sogeti Netherlands BV t 7 The Savvy Web Tester’s Tool Kit Erik Petersen, emprove t 8 Demystifying Virtual Test Lab Management Ian Knox, Skytap, Inc. t 9 Building an SOA Quality Center of Excellence Rajeev Gupta, iTKO LISA t Beyond Functional Testing: 10 On to Conformance and Interoperability Derk-Jan De Grood, Collis 12:15 lunch • visit the Testing eXPO • meet the speakers test Management test techniques t Reloadable Test Data for 12 Manual Testing agile testing t Driving Development with 13 Tests: ATDD and TDD Performance testing Special topics 1:30 t Managing Your Personal Stress 11 Level Randall Rice, Rice Consulting Services, Inc. Tanya Dumaresq, Macadamian Technologies, Inc. Elisabeth Hendrickson, Quality Tree Software, Inc. t Performance Engineering: More t Test Management for Very 14 Than Just Load Testing 15 Large Programs: A Survival Kit Rex Black, QA Software Consultant/Trainer Graham Thomas, Independent Consultant 2:30 3:00 Networking Break • visit the Testing eXPO t The Three Faces of Quality: 16 Control, Assurance, Analysis Stephen Michaud, Luxoft Canada t Acceptable Acceptance Testing 17 Grigori Melnik, Microsoft Corporation and Jon Bach, Quardev, Inc. t Are Agile Testers Different? 18 Lisa Crispin, ePlan Services, Inc. t Life as a Performance Tester 19 Scott Barber and Dawn Haynes, PerfTestPlus, Inc. t Adding Measurement to 20 Reviews Riley Rice, Booz Allen Hamilton 4:15 5:30 Has the time for the adversarial Organization Passed? — Gerard Meszaros, Independent Consultant BOnUS SeSSiOn—State of the Software testing industry — Panel Discussion Certification exam (See page 6 for details) friday, oCtober 3 8:30 9:30 testing Microsoft Office : experiences you Can Leverage to Drive Quality Upstream — Tara Roth, Microsoft ® networking Break test Management test techniques f 2 f 7 Truths and Myths of Static Analysis Paul Anderson, GrammaTech A Modeling Framework for Scenario-Based Testing Fiona Charles, Quality Intelligence, Inc. agile testing f 3 f 8 Lessons Learned in Acceptance Test-Driven Development Antony Marcano, testingReflections.com Agile Acceptance Testing Using .NET FitNesse Gojko Adzic, Neuri Ltd. Security Special topics f 5 Database Locking: What Testers Should Know, Why Testers Should Care Justin Callison, Luxoft Canada 10:00 f 1 f 6 Toward an Exploratory Testing Culture Rob Sabourin, AmiBug.com, Inc. Keys to Successful Test Outsourcing: Win-Win for All Patricia Smith, The Hartford f 4 f 9 Automating Security Testing with cUrl and Perl Paco Hope, Cigital Integrating Security Testing into Your Process Danny Allan, IBM Rational 11:15 f Going Mobile: The New 10 Challenges for Testers Wayne Hom, Augmentum 1:15 BOnUS SeSSiOn—getting things Done—Putting the Lessons of StarWEST 2008 to work — Rob Sabourin, AmiBug.com Call 888.268.8770 or 904.278.0524 to register • www.sqe.Com/swreg 5 http://AmiBug.com http://AmiBug.com http://testingReflections.com http://AmiBug.com http://www.sqe.com/sWreg
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