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Tutorials – March 12, 2012

Time Tutorial Room
08:00–09:00 Registration 1st floor
09:00–13:00 14:00–17:30 “Influence and Authority: Using Your Personal Power to Get Things Done”
Johanna Rothman		 TBD
09:00–13:00 14:00–17:30 “Making Test Automation Work in Agile Projects”
Lisa Crispin		 TBD
09:00–13:00 14:00–17:30 “Test Estimation, Monitoring and Control”
Lloyd Roden		 TBD
09:00–13:00 14:00–17:30 “Mobile Testing”
Karen N. Johnson		 TBD
09:00–13:00 14:00–17:30 “Essential Software Requirements”
Lee Copeland		 TBD

All tutorials include two coffee breaks (11:00 and 15:30).

 

Conference (Day 1) – March 13, 2012

Time Galaxy 1 Galaxy 2 Galaxy 3 Workshops -Atrium Sponsor Tracks
08:00–09:00 Registration

09:00–09:15

 Conference Opening
09:15–10:05 Room Galaxy 1
Keynote:
“The Future of Quality”
Goranka Bjedov
10:10–11:00 “When performance testing meets Business people”
Kris Laes		 “QA-gile: black-box on a white-board”
Maarten Van Eyken		 “Don’t Mislead Your Stakeholders (Even If They Ask You To)”
Johan Jonasson		 “Test Automation Clinic"
Dorothy Graham & Mark Fewster
- Part 1 -		 Sponsor Presenter
11:00–11:25 Coffee Break
11:30–12:20 “Perfomance Testing Case Studies – End-to-end performance testing and acceleration”
Michel Kalis		 “Hi, are you stuck in an agile project?”
Henrik Andersson		 “How to deliver value from Test Assurance”
Susan Windsor		 “Test Automation Clinic"
Dorothy Graham & Mark Fewster
- Part 2 -		 Sponsor Presenter
12:20–13:50 Lunch
13:50–14:40 “ATDD with Robot framework done right”
Sajjad Malang & Catherine Decrocq		 “Serendipty Testing – how to increase your chance of defect detection”
Elalami Lafkih		 “Quality Comes Not From Testing”
Niels Malotaux		 “The Search for Software Robustness”
Dawn Haynes
- Part 1 -		 Sponsor Presenter
14:50–15:40 “Test Automation – 10 (sometimes painful) Lessons Learned”
Michael Palotas & Dominik Dary		 “Would You Enjoy Reading Your Own Test Reports?”
Matthew G. Sullivan		 “Regulations – Where Quality Assurance meets Testing”
Jean-Paul Varwijk		 “The Search for Software Robustness”
Dawn Haynes
- Part 2 -		 “TBD”
TBD (iSQI)¹
 
15:50–16:20 Coffee Break
16:20–17:10 Room Galaxy 1
Keynote:
“QA or Test? Does it Matter? You Bet it Does!”
Johanna Rothman
17:15–18:10 Lightning Talks
Speakers: Lisa Crispin, Scott Barber, Dawn Haynes, Dorothy Graham, Susan Windsor, Lee Copeland
18:10–18:20/ 18:30–19:20 Cocktail / Improvisation act
19:20- 22:30 Dinner & Chill Out

Conference (Day 2) – March 14, 2012

Time Galaxy 1 Galaxy 2 Galaxy 3 Advanced Workshops Sponsor Tracks
08:00–09:00 Registration
09:00–09:05 Conference Infos
09:05–09:55 Room Galaxy 1
Keynote:
“Why it matters what I’m called: Quality Analyst or Software Tester”
Karen N. Johnson
10:05–10:55 “Applying Educational Assessment to Testing”
Scott Barber		 “Test automation: the return on investment myth”
Gilles Mantel		 “Offshore tester: Friend or Foe?”
Dries Baert		 “Solving practical problems with the quality assurance in the large scale”
Eveliina Vuolli & Kirsi Korhonen
- Part 1 -		 Sponsor Presenter
10:55–11.25 Coffee Break
11:30–12:20 “Planning your career to stay testing into the sunset ...”
Peter Morgan		 “Knock-knock-knockin’ on infrastructure’s doors”
Wim Demey		 “Creating balance as a tester in modern times”
George Wilkinson		 “Solving practical problems with the quality assurance in the large scale”
Eveliina Vuolli & Kirsi Korhonen
- Part 2 - 		Sponsor Presenter
12:20–13:50 Lunch
13:50–14:40 “Distributed Agile: The Need for QA Mindset in Agile Testing Teams”
Raja Bavani		 “Test Process Improvement – Answering the BIG questions!”
Graham Thomas		 “Janssen of Janssens, Thomson or Thompson, Dupont ou Dupond?”
Stefaan Luckermans		 “Advanced Hands-on Performance Testing”
Goranka Bjedov
- Part 1 -		 Sponsor Presenter
14:50-15:40 “Think out of the box with ADQA”
Björn Vanhove		 “Governance: Controlling quality like a filmdirector”
Rik Marselis		 “A Tale Of Two Cities”
Adrian Rapan & Tony Bruce		 “Advanced Hands-on Performance Testing”
Goranka Bjedov
- Part 2 -		 Sponsor Presenter
15:40-16:10 Coffee Break
16:10-17:00 “Open Source or not open Source that is the Question”
Alfonso Nocella		 “Moving the project forward – perform testing and avoid the QA”
Sigge Birgisson		 “Artful Testing”
Zeger van Hese		    
17:05-17:55 Room Galaxy 1
Keynote:
“Dispelling Testing’s Top Ten Myths and Illusions”
Lloyd Roden
18:00-18:10 Closing Session

 

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¹ 25-minute presentation

Please note that the program is subject to change.

Exhibitors & Supporters 2012

  • Coralius
  • BCS
  • PS_Testware
  • Quasus
  • Micro Focus
  • Sogeti
  • iSQI GmbH
  • HP
  • Key Performance
  • The test leaders
  • Díaz & Hilterscheid Unternehmensberatung GmbH
  • AQIS