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Eric Megens, wins the Best Speaker Award at QA&TEST

Itzi — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:06:28 +0000

The Best Speaker Award of QA&TEST 2008 has won by Eric Megens, for his presentation Lessons learned in testing and configuration management. Eric Megens is a Consultant at ITC Hight Tech Solutions, a Dutch company located in Apeldoorn.

In his presentation Lessons learned in testing and configuration management, Mr. Megens explained that during the start of projects, a lot of attention is paid to requirements and architecture. However less attention is paid to configuration management, since it is considered as a supporting process. His experiences and conclusions related to the configuration management make Eric Megens a fair winner of the Best Speaker Award of QA&TEST.

Bertrand Meyer gives a master class about testing

Itzi — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:32:26 +0000

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.

QA&TEST starts!

Itzi — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:20:38 +0000

The 7th Edition of QA&TEST, the International Conference on Testing and QA Software on Embedded Systems, started this morning at 9 at the Euskalduna Jauregia. Derk-Jan de Grood and Paul C. Jorgesen opened the Conference with two tutorials; four hour sessions that combines theory and practice.

The opening was at 14:00, and was chaired by Jesús de la Maza, President of Innovalia Group, and Cristina Oyón, Director of Technological Innovation of the SPRI, as a special guest. After the opening event, Roger Derksen gave the first dynamic keynote of the Conference, about his experience as a testing responsible of the system baggage of Terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport.
After the tracks of the afternoon, the first presentation of the Tool Lab will take place, handed by José Luis Fernández, about PPOOA architecture. The tool Lab will be followed by the Conference cocktail.

Jussi Mäkinen at QA&TEST

Itzi — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:19:00 +0000

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.

Bertrand Meyer, new QA&TEST speaker

Itzi — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:14:35 +0000

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!
Click here to see QA&TEST Programme.

Last tickets avaliable!

Itzi — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:50:21 +0000

You still have 3 weeks to buy your ticket for QA&TEST, but don’t wait too long because the tickets are limited. Order your ticket today online and be sure you have access to the 7th edition of QA&TEST, the conference on Quality and Testing on Embedded Systems.

Roger Derksen, new QA&TEST speaker

Itzi — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:50:29 +0000

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.
If you want more information about QA&TEST Programme, click here.

Juan Carlos Sánchez Mirabal, new QA&TEST speaker

Itzi — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:48:07 +0000

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.

QAGuild.com, new QA&TEST community partner

Itzi — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:32:34 +0000

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.

Three news speakers for QA&TEST!

Itzi — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:02:58 +0000

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.