Bertrand Meyer opened the second day of QA&TEST, with his keynote “Programs that test themselves”. Mr. Meyer, father of the Eiffel programing language, talked about functional testing and unit testing. Bertrand Meyer explained that being a tester actually means a desire for failing of the programme. That’s why every testing team needs someone like Mefistofeles between them, someone who is looking for flaws constantly.

Mr. Meyer explained what are the seven principles of testing,  among we can highlight the following:

•  Tests are not substitutes for the specifications
• Determine success or failures should be done automatically
• The most important criterion is the number of bugs found as a function of time

After the master class of Bertrand Meyer, the tracks Testing Management y Testing Techniques will start, with Chris Schotanus and Erik Boelen’ s presentations.

Jussi Mäkinen will give the 31 October keynote at QA&TEST. Mr. Mäkinen has started his studies for Doctor’s degree at the University of Oulu, Department of Information Processing Science in 2008. His main interest area is the effects of globalization process for the Finnish wireless industry. Also converging wireless technologies in the Future Internet context will be under his careful examination on top of his present position as a CTO of Octopus Network.

His presentation is taking place to illuminate the challenges of testing work from the point of view of telecommunications and other wireless industries and also to give the audience better understanding of the opportunities in the rapidly changing testing business.

QA&TEST is proud to present a new speaker: Bertrand Meyer, who will give one of the three keynotes of the Conference. Mr. Meyer is an academic, author, and consultant in the field of computer languages. He created the Eiffel programming language.
Since October 2001, he has been Professor of Software Engineering at ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, where he pursues research on building trusted components (reusable software elements) with a guaranteed level of quality.
In 2005, Mr. Meyer was a winner of the AITO Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard prize, which is awarded annually to two people who have made significant technical contributions to the field of Object Orientation
On June 2007, Meyer received the Software System Award of the ACM for “impact on software quality” in recognition of the design of Eiffel.
Come to QA&TEST and enjoy Bertrand Meyer’s keynote!
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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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