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.

Jamie Tischart, a real guru in the testing world, has confirmed his presence as speaker in QA&TEST 2008. Tischart will provide one of three keynote of the conference, entitled Fusion Testing.
Tischart has been in the Quality Assurance industry for the past 15 years working in several different industries. Desktop Software, Telecommunications Hardware, Internet Applications, Financial Applications and Managed Services. He is a published author in the area of Test Leadership and he is Certified by both QAI and ISTQB.
Nowadays, he is Vice President, Product Delivery at MX Logic Inc, a leading managed security services provider of email and Web security services.

QA&TEST 2008 is proud to present two new exhibitors: Steria and Visure Solutions.
Steria is a company that offers integrated services like critical processes business consultancy, and development and management information systems. As a European leader in global IT services to companies that consider new technologies vital part of its business strategy, Steria is focused on building relationships of trust with their customers.
Visure Solutions is a newly created Spanish company specialized in management and engineering  resulting from the spin-off of the business unit TCP SI Requirements Tools. Visure Solutions has been defined as “The Requirements Company”, because of its goal of becoming the specialized technology leader in management and engineering requirements.

Click here if you want more information about Steria and Visure.

SQS, with the Basque Enterprise Europe Network, will organize an Embedded Technologies Partnering Event, within the framework of the 7th edition of the International Conference on Embedded Software Testing, QA&TEST 2008*.

It aims to provide the embedded industry with a meeting place to find partners for product development, distribution & licensing agreements or similar partnerships.
It is open to hardware, software and tools developers as well as services providers to find business opportunities. Meet high quality suppliers, find creative solutions for your challenges and establish contacts and partners for future collaborations.
Press here if you want more information about Embedded Technologies Partnering Event.

*The fee does not include the QA&TEST 2008 conference entrance ticket but it includes access to QA&TEST 2008 commercial exhibition.

The Technical Committee has evaluated the abstracts received and has launched the preliminary Programme of the Conference. The programme will be divided into two tutorials, 20 presentations and 3 keynotes.
Derk-Jan de Grood and Paul C. Jorgesen will give the tutorials; a four hours session. They will offer their views about technologies and tools and then show the practical aspects for their implementation.
The presentations, 45 minutes sessions devoted to a topic on testing and quality software in embedded systems, will be divided in tracks: Test automation, Techniques Testing, Testing Organisations, Management and QA Test Management.
Visit our official website to check the confirmed speakers for QA & TEST 2008.

You can find QA&TEST at Twitter, a new form to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

You will find all news of QA & TEST in Twitter: ads, post on the blog, confirmation of the abstracts, etc., but the main utility will be on 29, 30 and October 31: all the information about the Conference (time, tracks, tutorials, Keynote, etc..), will be in real time on the web.