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Past Conferences – 2011

Belgium Testing Days 2011

Tutorials
February 14, 2011

Tutorial Morning Session Afternoon Session
“Becoming a Great Test Manager”
Johanna Rothman
09:00–12:30 13:30–17:00
“Cover All Your Testing Bases with the Agile Testing Quadrants”
Lisa Crispin
09:00–12:30 13:30–17:00
“Test Automation for Mobile Applications”
Julian Harty
09:00–12:30 13:30–17:00
“Risk-Based Testing”
Stuart Reid
09:00–12:30 13:30–17:00
“A Minimal Test Method for Unit Testing”
Hans Schaefer
  13:30–17:00
“Test Estimation – A Painful or Painless Experience?”
Lloyd Roden
09:00–12:30  

All tutorials are full-day tutorials (9:00–17:00 incl. a one-hour break) except for tutorials by Hans Schaefer
and Lloyd Roden.


Conference (Day 1)
February 15, 2011

Time Track 1 Track 2 Track 3 Exhibitor Track
08:30–09:30 Conference Opening & Keynote:
“Lessons Learned from 20 years of Managing Testing”

Johanna Rothmann
09:30–10:30 “Best Practices for Software Testing: Proposing a Culture of Testing”
Tim A. Majchrzak
“Using the Machine to Predict Testability”
Miguel Lopez
“Have you met the CAT?” ¹
Jana Noack (iSQI) & Arjan Brands (Díaz & Hilterscheid)
“Improving the Developer-Tester Collaboration with Visual Studio 2010” ¹
Jan Willem van Buuren (Microsoft)
10:30–11:00 Break – Visit the Expo
11:00–11:30 “How to Create Good Testers”
Susan Windsor
“Test-Driven Development in the Embedded World”
Jeroen Boydens, Piet Cordemans & Sille Van Landschoot
TestLab
“Martial Arts in Testing? – Testing and Coding Dojos”

Markus Gaertner
“Get to know what Rational is doing in Quality Management and its surroundings” ¹
Jack Verstappen (IBM)
11:30–12:00 “Stay Agile with Model Based Testing” ¹
Jelle Calsbeek (Atos Origin)
12:00–13:00 Lunch – Visit the Expo  
13:00–14:00 “Above and Beyond the Call of Duty”
Dries Baert
“The Business in the Driver Seat with Cloud Computing/How to Test – A Dialogue Between the Old and New Generation Tester”
John Bertens & Remco Oostelaar
“Implementing a business-centric, quality-driven software approach with HP ALM” ¹
Jerry Saelemakers (HP Software)
14:00–15:00 “Poor Defects BUG Me”
Peter Morgan
“Virtualized Testing: Opening the Doors of Opportunity”
Daniël Maslyn
“The Synergy between ISEB and IREB” ¹
Erwin Vangenechten (Coralius)
15:00–15:30 Break – Visit the Expo
15:30–16:30 Keynote:
“Innovations in Software Testing: the Past, the Present and the Future”

Stuart Reid
16:30–17:30 Lightning talk
“Looking into the Future”

Dorothy Graham, Stuart Reid, Hans Schaefer, Lisa Crispin, Johanna Rothman, Julian Harty and Lloyd Roden
17:30–18:30 Conference Reception  – Networking in the EXPO Hall
18:30 Show

Conference (Day 2)
February 16, 2011

Time Track 1 Track 2 Track 3 Exhibitor Track
07:15–07:30 Breakfast
07:30–08:30 “With the invention of the chip and the arrival of the supercomputers our whole future ICT landscape changes! A challenge for QA?”
Wilfried Verachtert (Project Manager High Performance Computing imec en Lab Manager ExaScience Intel Labs Europe)
08:30–09:30 Keynote:
“Alternative Testing: Do We Have to Test Like We Always Have?”

Julian Harty
09:30–10:30 “Unusual Testing: Lessons Learned From Being a Casualty Simulation Victim”
Nathalie Rooseboom de Vries van Delft
“How to Successfully Test in the Land of Babel: A Case Study”
Rocio Guerra-Noguero
TestLab
“Martial Arts in Testing? – Testing and Coding Dojos”

Markus Gaertner
“Testing with the cloud – Cloud enabled testing services” ²
Geert Vanhove (Sogeti)
10:30–11:00 Break – Visit the Expo  
11:00–12:00 “The A(utomation)-Team”
Bjorn Boisschot
“The Fifth Dimension: You’ve Just Entered The Financial Engineering Zone”
Jamie Dobson & Jorrit-Jaap de Jong
“Security Testing, a Stranger in our Midst?” ²
Geert Colpaert (ps_testware)
12:00–13:00 Lunch – Visit the Expo
13:00–14:00 Keynote:
“bpost V2.011 – The Journey of a Complete Makeover of a State-Owned Monopolist”

Koen Van Gerven (Executive Committee, Residential Market, Postal Bank and ICT, bpost)
14:00–15:00 “How to Automate Tests Using TestLink and Hudson”
Bruno de Paula Kinoshita
“Winning Big with Agile Acceptance Testing – Lessons Learned From 50 Successful Projects”
Gojko Adzic
TestLab
“Martial Arts in Testing? – Testing and Coding Dojos”

Markus Gaertner
 
15:00–15:30 Break – Visit the Expo  
15:30–16:30 “How to Suspend Testing and Still Succeed – A True Story”
Graham Thomas
“How We Bridged the Gap Between Developers and Testers in a Scrum Context”
Jurian van de Laar
“Performance testing in a changing world” ¹
Jan De Coster (Micro Focus)
16:30–17:30 Keynote:
“Learning for Testers”

Lisa Crispin
17:30–17:45 Closing Words

Bonus Sessions (Day 3)
February 17, 2011

Time Track 1 Track 2
09:00–16:00 TMMi by Experimentus
with Geoff Thompson & Brian Wells
Work Camp: Preperation for Exams – ISTQB Foundation Level
with Werner Lieblang

Exam Center: ISTQB Foundation and Advanced Level, IREB Online Exams – Certification by iSQI

¹ 25-minute presentation
² 50-minute presentation

Exhibitors & Supporters 2012

  • Coralius
  • BCS
  • PS_Testware
  • Quasus
  • Micro Focus
  • Sogeti
  • iSQI GmbH
  • HP
  • Key Performance
  • Parasoft
  • Jamo Solutions
  • The test leaders
  • MyCom
  • ie-net
  • testnet
  • BI-Community
  • Díaz & Hilterscheid Unternehmensberatung GmbH
  • AQIS
  • Testing Experience
  • Agile Record
  • iSQI GmbH