QA&TEST presents the Tool Lab, an area reserved to the attendees in order to try different tools. At the Tool Lab, the exhibitors will explain how their tools work, and the attendees will have the opportunity to know and test them. The technical staff of the different companies involved will give the visitors advice.
The Tool Lab will have three presentations: Telelogic, an IBM company, will give a presentation entitled “Functional Test Management and Planning with Telelogic DOORS”; José Luis Fernández, professor of the Industrial Engineering University of Madrid, will give a demonstration about PPOOA architecture under the title “PPOOA, a model based approach for the architecture and performance evaluation of real-time systems” and, finally, SQS, QA&TEST organizing company, will exhibit “SQS Test Framework”.

QA&TEST is proud to present a new speaker: Roger Derksen. Roger Derksen will give one of the three keynotes of the Conferences, in which he will explain his experience as responsible of testing of the Heathrow Terminal 5 Baggage Handling System. Derksen is a senior consultant with Transfer Solutions, an IT consulting firm based in the Netherlands. He has been working with Vanderlande Industries as a test manager for several years. Roger is an ISEB certified test practitioner. Currently he is working as a test and integration manager for a project of the 70MB programme of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.
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Juan Carlos Sánchez Mirabal, test manager of the company NTE SA / Werfen Group, has confirmed his attendance as speaker at QA&TEST 2008.
Sánchez Mirabal, linked for over ten years to the testing world, will give a presentation entitled “Control configuration: maintaining items synchronized”, belonging to Configuration Management Track.
In his presentation, Sánchez Mirabal, will explain the importance of the information associated to the software, and how it is essential to keep under control the source code and the TestWare.
If you want more information about Juan Carlos Sánchez Mirabal, please, click here.

QA&EST is proud to present a new community partner.  QAGuild.com is a platform to bring the global QA and Testing knowledge together in a central place. The group is open to everyone who wants to know about reusable assets, solutions, and tools to improve business performance and to reduce QA and Testing costs.

Through QAguild, professionals have the opportunity to contribute to the global QA and Testing knowledge base through QAGuild Techie Zone platform and get recognised.
Click here if you want more information about QAGuild.com.

QA&TEST is proud to present three news speakers: Frank Cohen, Eric Megens and Erik Boelen.
Frank Cohen, founder of PushToTest and author of FastSOA, is the expert that information technology professionals and enterprises go to when they need to understand and solve problems in complex interoperating information systems, especially Service Oriented Architecture (SOA,) Ajax, and Web services.
Erik Boelen is a test professional since 2000. As a test manager and test consultant, he has helped already a large number of companies their test process, often within an agile environment.
Eric Megens started working on embedded software in several roles in 1991. Since 1999 he has been working as a test- and integration-architect in different organizations. Currently is working as an ICT-consultant for High Tech Solutions, a consultancy company in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.

If you want more information about QA&TEST speakers, please visit our official website.

Don’t miss this unique opportunity! If you buy your ticket for QA&TEST before September 15, you’ll get 10% of discount. Remember: QA&TEST offers three different modes of registration; only the tutorials, only the conferences or conferences and tutorials.

The complete registration also includes the conference banquet, free access to the exhibition, printed and digital material, a certificate of attendance and coffee breaks and lunches.

Don’t wait anymore and register today for QA&TEST 2008!

For the seventh time QA&TEST will be held in one of Spain’s most dynamic cities; Bilbao. Bilbao used to be an industrial city, but now a days it has been transformed into an modern and attractive city with architectural highlights like; the Conference Centre and Concert Hall Euskalduna Jauregia, where QA&TEST will be held, the Guggenheim Museum (Frank Gehry), the Calatrava airport , the Metro designed by Norman Foster,  and some Isozaki projects. These are examples of the sweeping vitality that breathe in Bilbao, a city in which converge tradition and modernity.

Besides all those modern improvements we can not forget Bilbao gastronomy, well-known for the quality of its products and expertise of its chefs: menus for all tastes and accessible to everyone. And of course, the famous pintxos may be tasted in traditional areas: Casco Viejo, “Pozas” and Deusto.
So besides the high quality of the conference you have the possibility to enjoy a warm and friendly city, with a rich culture and a fantastic gastronomy.

QA&TEST is proud to present a new partner: Agile Alliance. With more than 4411 members located around the globe, the Agile Alliance is driven by the values and principles of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. Agile Alliance recommends agile approaches to software development because they deliver value to organizations and end users faster and with higher quality.

The Agile Manifesto is based on the following principles:

• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
• Working software over comprehensive documentation
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• Responding to change over following a plan

If you want more information about Agile Alliance, click here.

Increasingly in this modern world, we rely on systems where an error could cause financial disaster, organisational chaos, or in the worst case death. Software now plays a crucial role in these systems, but the disturbing fact is that the increasing use of embedded computers, controlling all sorts of devices, is moving us in the opposite direction.
Organisations like ‘Which?’ in the UK devote their energies to examining such devices. They test them thoroughly, but importantly they also examine and dismantle the devices to detect engineering defects, such as unsafe wiring. If they find a device unsafe it is rated as unacceptable and the public is protected against the dangerous device. But as soon as embedded computer systems are involved we have no such transparency. Cars, for example, are now full of computers and without access to the software details, there is no way to tell if these cars are ‘Unsafe at Any Speed’.

If you want to read Robert Dewar’s whole article at ESE Magazine, click here.

José Luis Fernández, professor of the Industrial Engineering University of Madrid, will give a demonstration at QA&TEST about PPOOA architecture.

PPOOA, Processes Pipelines in Object Oriented Architectures is an architectural style for concurrent object oriented architectures. It can be used when individual paths of execution are required to be concurrent and several processes may be positioned along the path to control the action.
PPOOA is based on the paradigm of “production line” where different software processes are acting on the information in sequence and process or transforms the data, in the same way to a production line where different operators or machines process or assemble a product.