QA&TEST 2012

IRay Arell manages the Software Qualification and Validation department within Intel's Corporate Quality Network. Ray has over 21 years of development, validation, and management experience, and has been with Intel for 16 years.

During that time, he has worked on a variety of teams focused on CPU, chipsets, and graphics system-level testing including the i386T, i486T, and Pentium® processors. He is also co-author of Change-Based Test Management: Improving the Software Validation Process (ISBN: 0971786127).

Mr. Doron Cherkovsky is Software Quality Assurance (SQA) Manager at the Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) -System Missiles and & Space Group, MBT Technologies Division.

He received his BSc. & MSc. degrees in Physics from the University of Zagreb (Croatia). From 1970 he is with the Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) Ltd. As an industry practitioner and manager he was involved in large Software/System projects as Software Developer, and later on for the last 20 years in various SQA and Testing positions.

He is involved in the IAI Corporate level Software Process Improvement Program activities and participated in a European Community funded project (TESTART). Mr. Cherkovsky provided consulting services on Software process improvement, SQA and Testing issues, he also collaborated in writing papers presented at national and international Software Conferences on SQA and Testing.

Odd Nordland studied nuclear physics and computing science in Hamburg. He worked for 7 years as assessor for process control in nuclear power stations in Germany, followed by 10 years as configuration manager in the International Space Station project (ISS).

Since 1997 he has been working for SINTEF in Trondheim, Norway, where he has been assessor and project manager for numerous safety assessment projects in addition to performing risk analyses and safety management. He has extensive experience in the application of international safety standards and a large number of publications in national and international fora.

He is also an external examiner for Programming Methods and System Development at the Norwegian Technical and Scientific University in Trondheim, and for Safety Critical Systems Development at the University College of Østfold in Halden.

He is a member of the European Workshop on Industrial Computer Systems (EWICS), the System Safety Society (SSS), the Safety Critical Systems Club, the International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (IIIS), the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the Norwegian Network for Safe, Secure and Reliable Software (NONSTOPP).

Industrial Engineer for the High Technical School of Bilbao - Universidad del País Vasco and Project Management Graduated at IMPI. General Manager of CARSA.

Founder of Innovalia and of Innovalia Metrology. Vice-president of ia.cmm.

Has many years of experience as an assesor, consultant and technical assesor of many R&D national and international proposals of projects.

Homologated by the European Comission as a PTA (Project Technical Assistant) for the Growth and IST programmes 2002 - 2007, V and VI Framework Programmes.

Begoña Laibarra graduated in Computer Sciene and obtained a master´s degree in Robotics and Automation. Since 1991 she works for CARSA. She has been responsible for R&D projects coordination of Manufacturing and Information Technologies. Since 1998 works as General Manager of SQS S.A.

She has been responsible of systems V&V definition and implementation for a wide range of embedded systems including safety critical systems. She has also been responsible of the design and implementation software quality process improvement actions.

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Degree in Computer Science, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 1990

Master in Knowledge Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 1992

PhD in Computer Science, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 1994

Andrés Silva works as Software Egineering professor in the Computer Science department of Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. He has also working experience in industrial area (Isolux-Wax) and has worked for the Institute for Systems, Informatics and Safety (ISIS) of the Joint Research Centre (former EURATOM) in Ispra (Italy).

In 2001 received his Ph. D. from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. His teaching and researching activity is focused on Requirements Engineering. He has published several technical articles in relevant international magazines.

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Peter Zeitler is highly innovative, results-oriented executive with an accomplished, versatile background in global telecommunications coupled with strong leadership abilities and strategic vision.He has successfully directed the development of innovative telecommunications products, solutions, and initiatives for companies such as LogicaCMG, KPN Mobile, ICL, and Orange International.

He has diverse expertise in fixed and mobile telecommunications (C450/NMT, Tetra, GSM, 3G, WLL). Mr. Zeitler has a long experience at working with senior executives, building relationships, and leading multinational teams, and he has played an instrumental role in telecommunications growth in Africa.

Jan van Moll studied Technical Physics and started his career as a research assistant in Philips Electronics. He holds a PhD in Technical Sciences from the Eindhoven University of Technology. The subject of his research was an industry-based study (2002-2007) on the adverse effects of distributed (global) development on the quality of the developed product. Jan has a fifteen year background in software engineering, verification & validation and has wide experience in test engineering, test architecture and test project management in various product domains. He was responsible for the design and improvement of the verification & validation process in many, internationally distributed development projects for consumer electronics, medical systems and industrial equipment. Jan is a lead assessor in test process maturity assessments according to various maturity models like TMM and TPI.

He is a member of the examination committee of the ISTQB-affiliated Belgium & Netherlands Testing Qualifications Board (BNTQB), ISTQB and of several professional interest groups. He is a frequent speaker at international seminars and conferences on Product Quality, Verification and Validation. Currently, Jan is Department Manager System Integration & Verification at Philips Healthcare - MRI (Best, The Netherlands), a leading company specialized in the development of medical imaging systems. Next to this, he is an independent software forensic expert on request by special boards, investigating major (software-induced) system failures that have impact on security, welfare, social or general national interest.

Juan Carlos Sánchez is Software Test Manager at NTE (Nuevas Tecnologías Espaciales) for Clinical Software Division. He is the responsible of the software quality of medical systems for In Vitro Diagnostics following IEEE standards and under European (CE Mark) and American (FDA) regulations.

Hung Nguyen, as LogiGear Chairman/CEO, is responsible for the company’s strategic direction and innovative approach to software testing, test automation, testing technology and education programs. Mr. Nguyen is author/coauthor of Testing Computer Software (Wiley, 2nd ed.), Testing Applications on the Web (Wiley, 1st and 2nd ed.) and Global Software Test Automation (HappyAbout).

He also teaches software testing at LogiGear University, at the University of California Berkeley Extension and Santa Cruz Extension in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Prior to LogiGear, Mr. Nguyen held leadership roles in software development, quality, and product and business management at Silicon Valley companies including Electronic Arts, Palm Computing, Spinnaker and PowerUp.

Dr. Anders Hessel works as Software Architect at Xware AB and Researcher at Mälardalen University. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Uppsala University (2007). Dr. Hessel has been a Developer and a Technical Project Manager at ISD Datasystem (1994-2000), and a Consultant at Ericsson (2000-2001).

Dr. Hessel has taught project methodology during his years at Uppsala University, and he is now a Certified SCRUM master. He joined ENEA 2007 as a tool developer for ENEA Optima, an Eclipse based tool for system debugging. Currently, Anders combines several skills working as a Process Developer and also doing research in the model-based testing area. In the latter he exploits his earlier work with CoVer to build a user friendly, UML-based tool suite with Eclipse as a base.

Dr. Daniel Kästner is co-founder of AbsInt Angewandte Informatik GmbH, and CTO since 2003. His work is focused on the validation of real-time systems, compiler construction, code optimization for embedded processors and on program analysis for embedded software.

Dr. Käestner studied Computer Science and Business Economics at Saarland University from 1993 till 1997. In 2000 he received his Ph.D. on code optimization for embedded processors, and was a research associate at Saarland University until 2003. He has been invited lecturer at Saarland University and was a program committee member of numerous international conferences.

In 1991 Mr. Megens started working on embedded software in several roles, varying from software engineer and tester to software designer. Since 1999 he has been working as a test- and integration-architect in different organizations (Philips Medical Systems, NXP, Siemens, Philips Applied Technology and Medtronic). Regarding the topic of this presentation he gained his experience in the working field, participating diverse large embedded systems projects (medical X-ray platform, digital TV platform, car infotainment system, proton therapy system).

He is currently working as a project leader at Enexis. Enexis is a Dutch grid operator (energy utility) introducing smart meters and smart grids on a large scale. Within Enexis he is responsible for the system-integration and testing of the new generation smart meters in the current smart grid information system.