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Conference Program
A preliminary program has been released, please click here to download.
The conference program will include a combination of plenary sessions, papers and trade exhibits as outlined below.
Please visit this page regularly for updates prior to the conference.
Conference Tutorials
A number of high quality full-day pre-conference tutorials will be presented on Monday 1 March 2010. These tutorials offer delegates a chance to learn from industry experts in a practical setting. Tutorials can be booked through the Registration Page.
NOTE: LIMITED PLACES BOOK NOW
TUTORIAL A: Measuring up to your stakeholders, Isabel Evans – Testing Solutions Group, UK
These are testing times and the pressure is on everyone to show their worth to the organisation that pays them. With so many IT projects failing to meet time, budget or business goals, we need to take stock of how we can show our stakeholders that we measure up to their expectations.
Testers already use metrics about test progress, test effectiveness and the quality of the products being tested to report on their work. However, these test metrics do not directly relate to the way that people outside IT measure success. They may obscure rather than reveal the achievement of and risks for the organisation’s goals. Senior managers in IT and in the business need to have visibility and predictability of testing, and they need this in their own terms.
In the tutorial, we will see the difference between measures, metrics and indicators and how these can be used when presenting testing results to align to common organisational goals. You will understand the need to present financial and customer results, some of which are quantitative (return on investment, profit) and others of which are more qualitative (customer and staff satisfaction). We will discuss how to present the financial impact of testing (positive and negative) and show how testing affects the total cost of quality. We’ll see how to use qualitative and quantitative assessments of the usefulness, visibility, and predictability of testing, to enable you to track progress against plans, estimates, goals and expectations. You will be able to provide information to show whether the organisation’s and the project’s goals are at risk or achievable: information for the team, the project and the customers who will use the systems we test.
As we move from the “what to measure and report” to the practical “how to” you will learn:
- What measures to make to show progress against organisational goals
• How to make those measures
- What measures to make to showing testing’s value and success
• How to make those measures
- How to present this information metrics in a way stakeholders can use for decision making
- How to improve and focus your reporting to different stakeholders.
TUTORIAL B: Using the TPI®-Next Model to Improve Test Processes, Graham Bath – T-systems, Germany
How often do we here that “something is wrong with our process”? Maybe you recognise this in your test team, or maybe your customer wants to improve in some way. Where do you start?
In this tutorial you will get hands-on, practical experience which will help you get a good start to improving test processes. First, a broad overview is given of the various strategies you can use to improve the testing process. After that, the tutorial focuses specifically on using the TPI-Next model.
Following an introduction to the model, the tutorial moves into a “live” test process assessment. You will be able to listen in on live assessment interviews and experience how the TPI-Next model helps in proposing improvements. There is a briefing before each separate interview and a discussion afterwards where you can apply the model yourself (it’s not rocket science).
This tutorial isn’t “all theory”; in fact the interviews and debate can be quite fun! We will also get some tips on interviewing technique, learn how to plan an improvement program and gain an overview on the key success factors in bringing about lasting improvement.
The TPI-Next model is brand new. It’s based on the tried and trusted TPI model and has been completely updated to meet the demands of modern-day testing. This is possibly the first ever tutorial on TPI-Next to be provided at a testing congress!
Graham Bath has many years of experience in improving test processes and has applied the TPI model to countless testing projects. He is co-author of the new ISTQB Expert Level syllabus “Improving the Test Process”.
TUTORIAL D: Agile Methods Workshop, Shane Parkinson – Planit, Australia
This full day tutorial will cover:
- Introduction to Agile Methods
- Agile Methods
- Managing Agile Projects
- Requirements Specification in Agile Methods
- Software Testing & Agile Methods
Please CLICK HERE to access detailed course description
TUTORIAL E: Non-Functional Testing, Stuart Reid - Testing Solutions
This tutorial provides an introduction to the application of non-functional testing as a set of activities throughout the software lifecycle. In traditional testing these areas are often ignored, yet the non-functional attributes of a product are often those that critically affect its success. This tutorial will provide an understanding of the breadth of non-functional attributes that should be considered, and an outline of the risks for different stakeholders.
The objectives are:
- To concentrate on the most common non-functional testing areas which critically affect the success of software.
- To explain how testers should be involved in specifying the non-functional quality attributes of the system so that the system can later be evaluated against those same requirements. This leads to new levels of testability and consistency, and also ensures that the goals of testing and development are fully integrated across the project.
- To provide guidance on the testing of a wide range of non-functional quality criteria, including: usability, performance, security, reliability, compatibility, interoperability, maintainability and portability.
- To provide a basis of knowledge to enable effective communication on this topic.
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