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Neuri, Ltd.
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Gojko Adzic is a software craftsman with a passion for new technologies, programming, and writing. Gojko was bitten by the agile testing bug five years ago. Since then he has helped numerous teams implement agile testing practices, written three books on the subject—Specification by Example, Bridging the Communication Gap, and Test Driven .NET Development with FitNesse—and contributed to several open source projects in agile testing. Over the past eleven years, he has worked as a developer, architect, technical director, and consultant on software for equity and energy trading, mobile positioning, e-commerce. and online gaming. Gojko now helps ambitious teams—from web start-ups to large financial institutions—to implement specification by example and agile testing.
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Half-day Tutorial: Automating Web-based Application Testing with Cucumber Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 8:30 a.m.
Keynote: Sleeping with the Enemy Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 10:00 a.m. |
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Aetna Healthcare
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Fariba Alim-Marvasti is responsible for the Data Governance/Management teams at Aetna Life Insurance Company. She leads an innovative organization driving data manufacturing across Aetna along with delivery responsibilities for testing/quality assurance within the Informatics and Medical Management domains. Fariba is a results-oriented Senior IT Executive with more than twenty-five years of proven ability to lead and manage IT organizations, delivering cost-effective solutions, while maintaining productive customer relationships.
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Concurrent Session: Data Manufacturing: A Test Data Management Solution Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 3:00 p.m.
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Hastings Mutual Insurance Company
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Paul Ayoub has been Vice President & Chief Information Officer of Hastings Mutual Insurance Company since June 2010. Prior to joining Hastings Mutual, Paul had held the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at both Employers Insurance Company of Nevada and PMA Capital Insurance Company. Before these roles, he spent sixteen years in technical and IT management positions at CIGNA Corporation, culminating in a Divisional CIO role in the Corporate area.
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Summit Session: Balancing Business Agility and Software Quality Friday, May 6, 2011
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Satisfice, Inc.
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James Bach is founder and principal consultant of Satisfice, Inc., a software testing and quality assurance company. In the eighties, James cut his teeth as a programmer, tester, and SQA manager in Silicon Valley in the world of market-driven software development. For nearly ten years, he has traveled the world teaching rapid software testing skills and serving as an expert witness on court cases involving software testing. James is the author of Lessons Learned in Software Testing and Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar: How Self-Education and the Pursuit of Passion Can Lead to a Lifetime of Success.
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Half-day Tutorial: James Bach: On Testing Monday, May 2, 2011, 1:00 p.m.
Full-day Tutorial: Critical Thinking for Testers Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 8:30 a.m.
Keynote: Lightning Strikes the Keynotes Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 4:30 p.m. |
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eBay, Inc.
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Jon Bach recently joined eBay (San Jose) as a QA director for the Buyer Experience team. Formerly a manager of corporate intellect and senior test consultant at Quardev, he has been in testing since 1995 with experience that includes managing teams at Microsoft, HP, and LexisNexis. The co-inventor (with his brother James) of session-based test management, Jon is an award-winning speaker about test management and exploratory testing. He’s mostly known for his “half-baked” ideas about how to inspire innovation and create a learning culture for test teams. Find Jon on Facebook and Twitter (as @jbtestpilot). View his presentations at quardev.com/articles and blog at jonbox.wordpress.com.
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Half-day Tutorial: The Craft of Bug Investigation Monday, May 2, 2011, 8:30 a.m.
Half-day Tutorial: Exploratory Testing Is Now in Session Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 1:00 p.m.
Concurrent Session: Thread-based Exploratory Testing Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 11:30 a.m.
Keynote: Lightning Strikes the Keynotes Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 4:30 p.m. |
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PerfTestPlus, Inc.
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Scott Barber is the chief technologist of PerfTestPlus, executive director of the Association for Software Testing, co-founder of the Workshop on Performance and Reliability, and co-author of Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications. A recognized expert in performance testing software systems, he combines experience, science, and wit to teach a heuristic approach to testing performance to every member of the project team. Scott is an international keynote speaker and author of more than 100 published works related to software testing.
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| Bonus Session: The Workshop on Regulated Software Testing (WREST) Friday, May 6, 2011, 8:30 a.m. |
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SOASTA, Inc.
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Dan Bartow is Vice President and CloudTest Evangelist at SOASTA, the leader in performance testing from the cloud. Prior to joining SOASTA, Dan was Senior Manager of Engineering at Intuit, where his team was responsible for the speed and stability of TurboTax Online. Over the past decade, he has been responsible for the performance of websites for leading consumer brands. Dan has set multiple industry precedents including launching the world's largest stateful JBoss cluster and using more than 2000 cloud computing cores to generate load against a live website. Dan is a frequent industry presenter and has spoken at leading testing and cloud computing conferences.
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| Half-day Tutorial: Production Performance Testing in the Cloud Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 1:00 p.m. |
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Microsoft
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A Test Architect at Microsoft in the Developer Division, Dennis Bass has 29 years of experience in software design, development, and testing. He is currently a member of the Visual Studio product team focusing on performance and scalability testing of Cloud based solutions. Before joining the product team, Dennis spent eleven years as a member of the Microsoft Testing Services Labs focused on performance testing of applications with Enterprise and ISV customers. He is a frequent presenter at internal Microsoft technical conferences on Visual Studio Team Test and testing related topics.
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Concurrent Session: Performance Testing Cloud-hosted Applications Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 3:00 p.m.
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Chairman of the AST's financial services Special Interest Group
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Bernie Berger has been testing software at Wall Street firms for more than 15 years and has experience on various software projects related to the financial industry, including electronic trading and algorithmic strategies, FIX protocol and market data validation. He is a former director of the Association for Software Testing (AST) and is chairman of the AST Financial Services SIG. He founded and runs the Software Testing in Financial Services (STiFS) workshops. |
| Bonus Session: Software Testing in Financial Services Workshop Sunday - Monday, May 1 -2, 2011, 8:30 a.m. |
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Impetus Technologies
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Shirish Bhale heads the performance engineering practice at Impetus. He has been involved in various initiatives and R&D in this domain and has played a pivotal role in development of SandStorm, Impetus’ enterprise performance testing tool. For the past fifteen years, Shirish has been actively involved in performance engineering and testing space, seeing the software industry move from client server to an ASP to a SaaS and now to a cloud model. He is also in charge of account management, project deliveries, and enduring customer relationships. Shirish is a certified SCRUM Master.
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Concurrent Session: Performance Testing Mobile Applications Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 1:45 p.m.
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Independent Consultant
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For more than ten years, Rex “Red” Black has been working in the load testing and performance engineering field where he has developed and implemented performance processes/methodology for global performance services teams. Early in his career, Rex worked as a network administrator, server engineer, I/T manager, and web application developer. Much of this time was spent working as a contractor for corporations, universities, and the US Air Force. Most recently, Rex managed the Performance Engineering for Expedia, Inc., and now provides consulting services for companies in the area of performance engineering. Rex also conducts certified training courses for several HP/Mercury software products.
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Concurrent Session: Performance Engineering: More Than Just Load Testing Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 11:30 a.m.
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Polteq Test Services B.V.
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Kees Blockland joined Polteq in 2003 as test consultant. Before he joined Polteq he worked 14 years for Lucent Technologies R&D of which about 10 years in various test functions, like tester, test team leader, and supervisor of a test group. As Polteq's manager R&D he develops Polteq’s vision on testing and provides international test consultancy. Kees is an experienced (senior) test manager, gives advice on test improvement and test outsourding. He teaches a broad range of test classes, including ISTQB Advanced, TMap and Testing in SOA.
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Half-day Tutorial: Reliable Test Effort Estimation Monday, May 2, 2011, 8:30 a.m.
Half-day Tutorial: Test Process Improvement for Small-and Medium-sized Organizations Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 8:30 a.m.
Concurrent Session: End-to-End Testing: The PLACE to Be Thursday, May 5, 2011, 9:45 a.m.
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DevelopSense
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Michael Bolton has been teaching and providing consulting on software testing on five continents for nine years. He is the co-author (with senior author James Bach) of Rapid Software Testing, a course that presents a methodology and mindset for testing software expertly in uncertain conditions and under extreme time pressure. He has been Program Chair for TASSQ and is a co-founder of the Toronto Workshops on Software Testing. Michael wrote the Test Connection columns in Better Software magazine for three years and sporadically produces his own newsletter. Michael lives in Toronto, Canada, with his wife and two children and can be reached at mb@developsense.com or at developsense.com.
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Half-day Tutorial: Test Framing: Developing and Telling Your Testing Story Monday, May 2, 2011, 1:00 p.m.
Concurrent Session: Questioning Measurement Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 3:00 p.m.
Keynote: Lightning Strikes the Keynotes Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 4:30 p.m. |
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Zenergy Technologies
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A VP of Consulting Services for Zenergy Technologies, a QA and testing solutions firm, Shaun Bradshaw has more than fifteen years in the IT industry with the last thirteen committed to helping organizations improve their QA and testing processes. With an emphasis on practicality, Shaun has created and implemented customized test methodologies for numerous companies in a wide variety of industries. His specialties include effective testing and test management techniques, test metrics implementation, and agile/test team integration. Learn more about Shaun at zenergytechnologies.com.
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Concurrent Session: Managing with Metrics Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 11:30 a.m.
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LogiGear
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An internationally recognized expert in testing, Hans Buwalda is the originator of keyword-driven test automation, an approach now widely used throughout the testing industry. Originally from The Netherlands, Hans is now CTO of California-based LogiGear, directing the development of the successful Action Based Testing™ methodology for keyword-driven test automation and its supporting TestArchitect™ toolset. Among the other concepts and publications he is known for are Soap Opera Testing, 3 Holy Grails of Test Development, Testing in the Cold, and Jungle Testing. Hans is coauthor of Integrated Test Design and Automation and a frequent speaker at international conferences.
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Full-day Tutorial: Introducing Keyword-driven Test Automation Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 8:30 a.m.
Concurrent Session: Automating Embedded System Testing Thursday, May 5, 2011, 9:45 a.m.
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42 Lines
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Dawn Cannan is a software test evangelist who, for the past nine years, has been working to integrate testers as members of software development teams and to improve the working relationships among testers, developers, and the rest of the project team. When not working or speaking at conferences and user group meetings, Dawn spends her time working in the open source community on the .NET version of SeleNesse, a plug-in making it possible to create Selenium tests in FitNesse. She writes actively, publishing articles and posting on her blog passionatetester.com.
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Half-day Tutorial: Creating Executable Specifications and Tests with FitNesse and Selenium Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 1:00 p.m.
Keynote: Lightning Strikes the Keynotes Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 4:30 p.m. |
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STAQS
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Paul Carvalho has been in the IT industry for more than twenty years, with roles in testing, management, software quality assurance, development, training, and technical support. He specializes in systems analysis, test design, and exploratory testing, and has a gift of teaching for understanding. As an agile testing coach and practitioner, Paul helps testers and teams grow and adapt to complement development efforts; to increase collaboration, effectiveness, and efficiency; and to provide value to projects. He has been published in Better Software magazine, is a regular speaker at testing workshops and conferences, blogs occasionally, loves scripting with Ruby, and enjoys discovering new ways to break systems and applications.
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Concurrent Session: Real-time Test Design for Exploratory Testing Thursday, May 5, 2011, 11:15 a.m.
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Collard and Company
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A consultant who specializes in software testing and quality, Ross Collard conservatively estimates that he has helped clients save billions. They include ADP, American Express, Apple, AT&T, Bank of America, Bell Labs, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Boeing, Cisco, Citigroup, Exxon Mobil, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Google, HP, IBM, Intel, JP Morgan Chase, Merck, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, Prudential, State Farm and Verizon. Government clients include the CIA, Federal Reserve Bank and NASA. As an adjunct professor, he has taught software testing topics for several years at UC Berkeley, Harvard and NYU. Ross has been a keynote speaker for numerous major international software conferences.
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Bonus Session: Trends, Innovations and Blind Alleys Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 5:30 p.m.
Bonus Session: Test Centers of Excellence Thursday, May 5, 2011, 7:30 a.m.
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Software Quality Engineering
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Lee Copeland has more than thirty-five years of experience as a consultant, instructor, author, and information systems professional. He has held a number of technical and managerial positions with commercial and non-profit organizations in the areas of applications development, software testing, and software development process improvement. Lee frequently speaks at software conferences both in the US and internationally, and currently serves as Program Chair for the Better Software conference, the STAR testing conferences, and Software Quality Engineering’s Agile Development Practices conferences. Lee is the author of A Practitioner’s Guide to Software Test Design, a compendium of the most effective methods of test case design.
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Full-day Tutorial: Key Test Design Techniques Monday, May 2, 2011, 8:30 a.m.
Full-day Tutorial: Essential Software Requirements Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 8:30 a.m.
Bonus Session: Speaking 101: Tips and Tricks Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 5:30 p.m.
Keynote: Lightning Strikes the Keynotes Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 4:30 p.m. |
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Software Quality Engineering
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A consultant, lecturer, author, and test manager, Rick Craig has led numerous teams of testers on both large and small projects. In his twenty-five years of consulting worldwide, Rick has advised and supported a diverse group of organizations on many testing and test management issues. From large insurance providers and telecommunications companies to smaller software services companies, he has mentored senior software managers and helped test teams improve their effectiveness. Rick is co-author of Systematic Software Testing and is a frequent speaker at testing conferences, including every STAR conference since its inception.
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Half-day Tutorial: Leadership for Test Managers Monday, May 2, 2011, 8:30 a.m.
Half-day Tutorial: Essential Test Management and Planning Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 8:30 a.m.
Half-day Tutorial: Measurement and Metrics for Test Managers Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 1:00 p.m. |
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ePlan Services
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Agile testing coach and practitioner Lisa Crispin is the co-author, with Janet Gregory, of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams, and a contributor to Beautiful Testing. She also co-wrote Testing Extreme Programming with Tip House. Lisa specializes in showing agile teams how testers can add value and guide development with business-facing tests. For the past ten years, Lisa has worked as a tester on agile teams developing web applications in Java and .NET. Lisa regularly contributes articles to publications such as Better Software magazine. She enjoys sharing her experiences at conferences and user group meetings around the world. For more about Lisa’s work, visit lisacrispin.com.
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Half-day Tutorial: Making Test Automation Work in Agile Projects Monday, May 2, 2011, 8:30 a.m.
Half-day Tutorial: Agile Testing: After the First Year, What's Next? Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 1:00 p.m.
Concurrent Session: An Agile Approach to Defect Management Thursday, May 5, 2011, 9:45 a.m.
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Zenergy Technologies
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VP of Automation Solutions for Zenergy Technologies, a QA and testing solutions firm, David Dang has more than fifteen years in IT, with the last twelve focused on test automation, QA, and test process improvement. He has extensive experience designing, developing, and implementing advanced test automation frameworks that provide higher ROI by significantly reducing maintenance while increasing reusability. An HP Certified Instructor for QuickTest Professional, WinRunner, and QualityCenter, David has expertise in a wide variety of automation tools including open source. Learn more about David at zenergytechnologies.com.
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Concurrent Session: Optimizing Modular Test Automation Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 3:00 p.m.
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Delesie Solutions
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Selena Delesie is a consulting software tester and agile coach who runs her own company, Delesie Solutions. Selena has been managing and coaching on software, testing, and agile practices for a range of leading-edge technologies for about a decade. She facilitates the evolution of good teams and organizations into great ones using individualized and team-based coaching and interactive training experiences. Selena is an active speaker, participant, and leader in numerous industry-related associations and conferences. Links to Selena's published works, blog, and contact information can be found at DelesieSolutions.com.
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Concurrent Session: Freshen Up Your Software Testing Skills Thursday, May 5, 2011, 9:45 a.m.
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Progressive Insurance
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Tom Delmonte has been involved in Software Testing since 1988. He worked at several startups in the Silicon Valley until 1998 when he and his family moved to Colorado Springs. He currently leads a test team at Progressive Insurance and is involved in TCoE guidance and direction for the company at large. Family is important as well: he loves to find great places to eat and enjoy the outdoors. His favorite hobby is reading/learning a variety of subjects with a focus on leadership and resources that help him enhance or transcend his current perspectives.
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| Bonus Session: Test Centers of Excellence Thursday, May 5, 2011, 7:30 a.m. |
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Fujitsu America, Inc.
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R&D director at Fujitsu America Jacques Durand evaluates and promotes standards in B2B middleware, SOA, and cloud computing, and advises on their use in enterprise software products. He has a long-time interest in testing for conformance and interoperability, having chaired several test-related efforts in the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) consortium and OASIS, where he leads two standardization efforts for testing practices. Jacques developed test suites for the latest WS-I test tools and has authored an open-source XML-based test analyzer tool based on test assertions design from OASIS.
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Concurrent Session: Test Execution and Results Analysis: Time for a “Legal” Separation Thursday, May 5, 2011, 1:30 p.m.
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DHE
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For thirty years Dale Emery has worked in the software industry as a developer, manager, process steward, trainer, and consultant in both IT organizations and software product development companies. He helps people apply the agile values of communication, feedback, simplicity, courage, and respect to all areas of software development. Dale's combination of deep technical expertise and extensive organizational development experience makes him particularly effective in working with software teams. In 2007 he received the Ward Cunningham Gentle Voice of Reason Award, which the Agile Alliance created to recognize Dale's unique contributions to the agile community. He holds two patents for his software designs.
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Full-day Tutorial: Adapting to Agile Monday, May 2, 2011, 8:30 a.m.
Concurrent Session: The Estimate Is Nothing, The Estimating Is Everything Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 1:45 p.m.
Keynote: Lightning Strikes the Keynotes Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 4:30 p.m. |
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iContact
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Bob Galen is the director of R&D at iContact and president of RGCG, LLC, a North Carolina-based firm specializing in strategy development, coaching, and training teams making the shift to Scrum and other agile practices. Bob regularly speaks at international conferences and professional groups on topics related to software development, project management, software testing, and team leadership. He is a Certified Scrum Master Practicing (CSP), Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), and an active member of the Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance. In 2009, Bob published Scrum Product Ownership–Balancing Value from the Inside Out, which addresses the gap in guidance toward effective agile product management. You can reach Bob at bob@rgalen.com or rgalen.com.
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Half-day Tutorial: A Test Leader's Guide to Agile Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 8:30 a.m.
Keynote: Lightning Strikes the Keynotes Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 4:30 p.m. |
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Grove Consultants
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In the IT industry for nearly twenty years, Julie Gardiner has worked as an analyst programmer, Oracle DBA, and project manager. She has first-hand experience as a test analyst, test team leader, test consultant, and test manager. At UK-based Grove Consultants, Julie, a certified ScrumMaster, provides consultancy and training in all aspects of testing, specializing in risk-based testing, agile testing, test management, and people issues. She won best presentation at STAREAST; best presentation at BCS SIGiST; and best tutorial at EuroSTAR. Julie has been a keynote speaker at STARWEST, Innovate Test Management, and STANZ.
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Concurrent Session: Usability Testing in a Nutshell Thursday, May 5, 2011, 11:15 a.m.
Keynote: The 2011 Survival Guide: Lessons for Test Professionals Thursday, May 5, 2011 4:15 p.m.
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AmerisourceBergen Corporation
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Audrey Garner is currently the senior manager of the Independent Testing Organization for AmerisourceBergen Corporation–Consulting Services division. With more than twenty years of experience in quality management, software development, and project management, Audrey has built and matured testing and development organizations, optimized software lifecycle processes, and fostered high performing teams for international software development and Fortune 50 companies in the pharmaceutical, healthcare, transportation, and materials industries. Leveraging her experience in change management, she has led dispersed, diverse teams to meet the challenges of today’s globalized economies by creating innovative solutions and cultivating environments of life-long learning and continuous improvement.
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Concurrent Session: The Miracle of Change: Transforming a Testing Organization Thursday, May 5, 2011, 3:00 p.m.
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Intel Corporation
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A testing technical leader at Intel Corporation, Shmuel Gershon has experience in firmware and software testing, coaching testers, and helping friends. His experience includes working in large and small companies and as a freelancer, in South America and Israel. Shmuel used to be a programmer but discovered that testing is twice the fun. A frequent speaker at local software conferences, he is convinced that the most significant factor in our quest for quality is people—not features or technology. Shmuel writes about software testing at testing.gershon.info and recently published “Rapid Reporter,” an exploratory testing note taking tool.
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Concurrent Session: Fuzzing and Fault Modeling for Product Evaluation Thursday, May 5, 2011, 3:00 p.m.
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Software Test Consultant
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In testing for more than thirty years, Dorothy Graham is co-author of Software Inspection, Software Test Automation, and Foundations of Software Testing. She was a founding member of the ISEB Software Testing Board and a member of the working party that developed the ISTQB Foundation Syllabus. A popular and entertaining speaker at conferences and seminars worldwide, Dorothy was the program chair for EuroSTAR Conferences in 1993 and 2009, and holds the European Excellence Award in Software Testing. She has been speaking at STAR conferences since 1992. Now semi-retired, Dorothy has more time to spend on her main hobby—choral singing.
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| Full-day Tutorial: Managing Successful Test Automation Monday, May 2, 2011, 8:30 a.m. |
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DragonFire, Inc.
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The co-author of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Agile Testers and Teams, Janet Gregory specializes in helping teams build quality systems. Based in Calgary, Canada, Janet’s greatest passion is promoting agile quality processes. As tester or coach she has helped introduce agile development practices into companies and has successfully transitioned several traditional test teams into the agile world. Janet’s focus is working with business users and testers to understand their roles in agile projects. She has partnered with developers on her agile teams to implement successful test automation solutions. Janet is a frequent speaker at leading agile and testing software conferences around the world, including the STAR testing conferences.
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Half-day Tutorial: Planning Your Agile Testing: A Practical Guide Monday, May 2, 2011, 1:00 p.m.
Half-day Tutorial: Agile Testing: After the First Year, What's Next? Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 1:00 p.m.
Concurrent Session: Seven Key Factors for Agile Testing Success Thursday, May 5, 2011, 1:30 p.m. |
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eBay, Inc.
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Julian Harty was hired by ebay in August 2010 to help revamp testing across the organization, to significantly improve the effectiveness and relevance of testing. Since then he's learned plenty about testing techniques that work, some that don’t, and ways that automation can help. In the process, Julian started writing and sharing material with others who were interested in testing mobile software. That work has been shared at workshops and tutorials around the world, and the test automation techniques ended up being published as a book and now online. Julian is an active contributor to several open-source testing and development projects. Learn more at code.google.com/u/julianharty/.
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| Full-day Tutorial: Test Automation for Mobile Apps Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 8:30 a.m. |
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AgileDad
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Best known as AgileDad and author of the monthly Agile Mentor Newsletter at http://blog.agiledad.com, Lee Henson has held technical roles and responsibilities including GUI web developer, quality assurance analyst, automated test engineer, QA Manager, agile coach, consultant, and more. He has worked with hundreds of testing teams to assist their successful implementation of better agile testing practices. Lee’s client list includes Fortune 500 companies, government organizations, small and large software production facilities, and large scale e-commerce implementations. His unique blend of real-world experience combined with the ability to drive home highly technical concepts in an easy to understand manner make him a valuable resource for any team.
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| Concurrent Session: The Tester’s Role in Identifying, Managing, and Eliminating Technical Debt Thursday, May 5, 2011, 9:45 a.m. |
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Alcatel-Lucent
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Paul Holland has 15 years experience in testing telecommunications equipment and is currently the manager of a verification group at Alcatel-Lucent in Ottawa, Canada. He has an extensive background in test automation, DSL physical layer testing and performance testing. Paul has been involved in the context-driven testing community for the past 10 years. He has been on the Association for Software Testing Board of Directors for the past three years and is currently the Treasurer of AST. Just over 2 years ago Paul started to provide training in Performance Testing and Exploratory Testing. Paul has been the primary facilitator at the past four CAST conferences and has become one of the most sought after facilitators of LAWST inspired peer conferences; acting as the facilitator at over 25 workshops.
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Bonus Session: Software Testing in Financial Services Workshop Sunday - Monday, May 1 -2, 2011, 8:30 a.m.
Bonus Session: Trends, Innovations and Blind Alleys Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 5:30 p.m.
Bonus Session: The Workshop on Regulated Software Testing (WREST) Friday, May 6, 2011, 8:30 a.m. |
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Digital Media Group
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With more than eighteen years in the software business, Rick Hower's experience—in both consulting and management roles—has included software testing, process improvement, metrics, and software development. He has worked on projects including finance, government, health care, telecommunications, supply chain, ERP, data warehouse, and others in both large and small companies. A frequent speaker on testing and test automation at industry conferences, Rick has authored and maintained the popular SoftwareQATest.com website since 1996. Although still heavily involved in the technical side of software projects, he recently has given increasing focus to the human side of software engineering as a means of maximizing team effectiveness.
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| Concurrent Session: The Cassandra Syndrome: The Tester's Dilemma Thursday, May 5, 2011, 1:30 p.m. |
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Google, Inc.
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Joel Hynoski lucked into testing when the test manager left the telecommunications company in Australia where Joel was working as a software engineer. It was then that he found his passion for the creativity of testing and the engineering problems in test. Joel has now been in test for fourteen years and manages the client focus area for Google, with products like Chrome, ChromeOS, Google Toolbar, Google Updater, and Chrome Web Store under his purview. Joel has worked on Google Docs, Talk, and Contacts. Previously he worked from startup stage at Pure Networks (Cisco) and Open Telecommunications. |
| Summit Session: Testing in the Face of Relentless Change and Time Pressure Friday, May 6, 2011 |
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PayPal
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Anu Kak is a director of software quality assurance at PayPal. In his twenty-three years in the software industry, he has been an enterprise applications developer, customer support engineer, and software quality assurance professional. For the past eighteen years, Anu has been working in the field of software quality assurance in the areas of testing enterprise applications, relational database systems, and enterprise development tools. In addition to managing multiple testing teams of QA engineers spread across several locations, Anu coordinates with other QA groups in PayPal on managing new testing strategies, establishing best QA practices and guiding their strategic QA direction.
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Concurrent Session: The Net Promoter Score: Measure and Enhance Software Quality Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 1:45 p.m.
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Independent Consultant
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Cem Kaner has pursued a multidisciplinary career centered on the theme of the satisfaction and safety of software customers and software-related workers. With a law degree, a doctorate in Experimental Psychology, and seventeen years in Silicon Valley, Cem joined Florida Institute of Technology in 2000 as Professor of Software Engineering. His research focuses on How can we foster the next generation of leaders in software testing? Cem is the senior author of Testing Computer Software (with Jack Falk and Hung Quoc Nguyen), Bad Software (with David Pels), and Lessons Learned in Software Testing (with James Bach and Bret Pettichord). The Association for Computing Machinery recently honored Cem with its Making a Difference Award (sigcas.org/awards-1).
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Concurrent Session: Exploratory Validation: What We Can Learn from Testing Investment Models Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 11:30 a.m.
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Karten Associates
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Naomi Karten is a highly experienced speaker and seminar leader who draws from both her psychology background and IT experience to help organizations improve customer satisfaction, manage change, and strengthen teamwork. She has delivered seminars and presentations to more than 100,000 software professionals worldwide. The author of many books and e-books, Naomi’s most recent books include Presentation Skills for Technical Professionals: Achieving Excellence and Changing How You Manage and Communicate Change: Focusing on the Human Side of Change. Her newsletter, Perceptions & Realities (posted on her website), is well-known for providing informative, practical content in a chuckle-generating style.
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Half-day Tutorial: From Panic to Poise: Presentation Skills for Test Professionals Monday, May 2, 2011, 1:00 p.m.
Keynote: Embracing Change: Transforming Ideas and Challenges into Opportunities Thursday, May 5, 2011, 8:30 a.m.
Concurrent Session: Chatterboxes and Cave Dwellers: Making Sense of Extraverts and Introverts Thursday, May 5, 2011, 11:15 a.m.
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Institute for Leadership Excellence & Development, Inc.
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Andy Kaufman works with people around the world who are struggling with how to lead teams and deliver products. He helps professionals focus, take action, and deliver results. Andy’s keynotes, workshops, and executive coaching services have reached tens of thousands of people—from hundreds of companies—helping them deliver their projects, become more confident leaders, and achieve the results they desire while maintaining a balanced life. Andy is the author of Navigating the Winds of Change: Staying on Course in Business & in Life, Shining the Light on The Secret, and an e-book, How to Organize Your Inbox & Get Rid of E-Mail Clutter. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) and host of The People and Projects Podcast. Learn more about Andy at i-leadonline.com.
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Full-day Tutorial: The Leadership Tutorial: Improving Your Ability to Stand and Deliver Monday, May 2, 2011, 8:30 a.m.
Keynote: How to Win Friends and Influence People—and Deliver Quality Software Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 8:45 a.m. |
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Logica
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Senior test consultant Bart Knaack leads the Dutch Testing Innovation center at Logica, a full-service system integrator in Europe. He has been involved in IT for more than eighteen years with more than twelve years in testing. Bart is a trainer and coach for test managers and a frequent speaker at venues from international conferences to local colleges and high schools. In his professional life he is passionate about sharing knowledge as can be seen from his involvement in the STAR Test Lab. In his personal life, Bart is a father of two boys and a happy motorcyclist.
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Concurrent Session: When Testing Becomes a Risk Thursday, May 5, 2011, 3:00 p.m.
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Kohl Concepts, Inc.
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Jonathan Kohl is the founder and principal software testing consultant with Kohl Concepts, Inc., based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. A noted testing thinker, Jonathan is recognized as a leader in the exploratory testing community. He is a popular author and speaker who believes that testing is a challenging, intellectual craft. Jonathan’s blog on software development and testing issues is one of the most often-read testing blogs in the industry. Jonathan contributes to Better Software magazine and StickyMinds.com.
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Half-day Tutorial: Exploratory Software Testing Interactive Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 8:30 a.m.
Keynote: Lightning Strikes the Keynotes Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 4:30 p.m. |
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Overstock.com
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A software tester at Overstock.com, Bindu Laxminarayan has worked in agile, RUP, and waterfall models. Bindu is an ISTQB Advanced Level Certified Tester with experience in testing various products related to retail, airlines, and security fields. She has experience in testing web services, APIs-DLL, installation/deinstallation, functional, and websites along with experience in testing desktop and network-based applications on various operating systems. Bindu has designed several automation testing frameworks and is well versed in a number of automation tools. Her interests include root cause analysis, implementing strategies to achieve best quality, improving QA processes, and testing large scale systems.
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Concurrent Session: RESTful Web Services Testing Thursday, May 5, 2011, 3:00 p.m.
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National Archives and Records Administration
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David Leistner has served as the Section 508 Coordinator for the U.S. Mint, was on the Department of Treasury Section 508 Board, and was involved in verifying Section 508 compliance of several systems for government agencies. David has more than thirty years of experience in software development, requirements analysis, quality assurance, and testing/verification with more than seven years specializing in monitoring projects and conducting Acceptance Testing for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the Naval Research Laboratory. David has been involved with testing for the IRS, Department of Education, NASA, and NOAA, and currently serves as the Senior IT Specialist on the Electronic Records Archive project for NARA.
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Concurrent Session: Testing for Web Accessibility Thursday, May 5, 2011, 3:00 p.m.
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Construction Software Technologies
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In the software industry for more than ten years as a tester, automation developer, project manager, and manager, Brett Leonard currently manages the software testing group at Construction Software Technologies—also known as iSqFt—where he supports new development and maintenance of a business-to-business networking platform for the construction industry. At iSqFt, Brett introduced rapid testing methodologies and lightweight tools to support its agile development environment. Formerly at Fidelity Investments, he established and managed a test automation team that developed frameworks for web services, telephony, and other enterprise applications. Active with the Association for Software Testing, Brett is an assistant instructor for its Black Box Software Testing courses.
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Concurrent Session: Stop Writing Test Cases! It’s All About Models and Exploration Thursday, May 5, 2011, 9:45 a.m.
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Microsoft
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Vinod Malhotra is a Group Program Manager on the Visual Studio team at the Microsoft India Development Center. In this role, he owns planning, execution, and the product road map for the Visual Studio functional and load testing products. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2007, Vinod was vice-president of engineering at SoftJin Technologies in Bangalore. He has more than sixteen years of industry experience in software design, development, and testing at companies ranging from large enterprises to start-ups, including eleven years in Silicon Valley. Vinod holds a US patent and is passionate about software quality and agile practices.
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Concurrent Session: The Right Stuff: Testers in the Agile World Thursday, May 5, 2011, 3:00 p.m.
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Philips Healthcare
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With a fifteen year background in software engineering and verification and validation, Jan van Moll has broad experience in quality management in various product domains. He was responsible for the design and improvement of development, test, and quality management processes in internationally distributed development projects for consumer electronics, medical systems, and industrial equipment. Passionate about product quality improvement, Jan has led many test process maturity assessments using maturity models including TMM and TPI. Currently, he is Group Manager Software Verification at Philips Healthcare–MRI (Best, The Netherlands). At the request of special boards, Jan acts as an independent software-forensic expert, investigating major (software-induced) system failures that had impact on security, welfare, social, or general national interest.
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Concurrent Session: Better Than a Root Canal: Root Cause Analysis of Defects Thursday, May 5, 2011, 1:30 p.m.
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Cognizant Technology Solutions
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Manoj Narayanan is the Director of Testing Services at Cognizant Technology Solutions, a leading provider of information technology and consulting services. He manages the QA delivery and client relationship of Cognizant’s retail, travel, and hospitality verticals in North America. In his current role, Manoj provides thought leadership and implementation assistance for his clients as they transition the QA organization toward the next maturity level. During his fourteen years in the IT services industry, Manoj has successfully played multiple roles including performance services evangelist, program manager, and transition advisor. Prior to Cognizant, Manoj was a management consultant with A T Kearney with primary focus on business process re-engineering and risk optimization.
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Concurrent Session: Crowdsourced Testing: An Emerging Business Model Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 3:00 p.m.
Bonus Session: Automate, Virtualize & SmartTest: Understanding the Newer Realities of Testing Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 6:30 p.m. |
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UPS
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The Enterprise Testing Manager for UPS, Theresa O'Leary is responsible for the testing practice across all UPS IS organizations and lines of business. With an IT career that spans more than twenty-five years, her experiences range from leading large scale software delivery organizations to managing mission critical testing organizations and labs. Theresa’s career includes work in plant floor automation, import/export, telematics/fleet management, warehouse management, and quality and process improvement. She is using her combination of software development skills, management, and organizational development experience to holistically advance the QA practices across UPS.
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Concurrent Session: Building a World Class Test Organization Thursday, May 5, 2011, 11:15 a.m.
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Cognizant
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Rumesh Palaniswamy is a dynamic IT professional with more than ten years of software testing experience with two years of specialized mobile testing. His experience includes testing of business applications, products, and engineering tools in the retail and hospitality, healthcare, and logistics domains. Presently with Cognizant Technology Solutions, India as Test-Program Manager, Rumesh is proficient in managing customer relationships and leading the testing engagements for execution excellence across the gamut of testing services—test consulting, program management, testing delivery, etc. An excellent communicator with project management, quality, and process skills, Rumesh is CSTE certified and a certified Scrum Master.
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Concurrent Session: Insights into Mobile Applications Testing Thursday, May 5, 2011, 11:15 a.m.
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JCPenney
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Greg Paskal is currently with JCPenney, where he is involved in pioneering a new group called the Application Testing Center, a COE around software test engineering. Involved in software testing since the early 1980s, Greg’s background includes automated testing for satellite systems, retail applications, e-commerce solutions, and mobile devices. His passion for technology drives him to explore innovative ways to blend concepts and techniques to derive creative solutions. He is a regular speaker at the University of the Nations where he teaches Writing for the Web and Server School. Greg has spoken at StarEast, StarWest, and other testing conferences on his Minimal Essential Testing Strategy, now developed into an iPhone application. Learn more about Greg via MissionWares.com and GregPaskal.com.
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| Concurrent Session: Automation Strategies for Testing Complex Data and Dashboards Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 11:30 a.m. |
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Coveros, Inc.
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Jeff Payne is CEO and founder of Coveros, Inc., where he has led the startup and growth of the company. Prior to Coveros, Jeff was Chairman of the Board, CEO, and co-founder of Cigital, Inc. Under his direction, Cigital became a leader in software security and software quality solutions, helping clients mitigate the business risks associated with failed software. Jeff is a recognized software expert and speaks to companies nationwide about the business risks of software failure. He has been a keynote and featured speaker at CIO and business technology conferences and frequently testifies before Congress on issues of national importance, including intellectual property rights, cyber-terrorism, and software quality.
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Bonus Session: Making Agile Work: An Introduction to Agile Development Practices Sunday, May 1, 2011, 8:30 a.m.
Summit Session: Testing & Quality Leadership Summit Friday, May 6, 2011 |
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Software Quality Engineering
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With more than thirty years of experience in information technology, Dale Perry has been a programmer/analyst, database administrator, project manager, development manager, tester, and test manager. Dale’s project experience includes large systems development and conversions, distributed systems projects, and online application development and testing. A professional instructor for more than fifteen years, he has presented at numerous industry conferences on development and testing. With Software Quality Engineering for thirteen years, Dale has specialized in training and consulting on testing, inspections and reviews, and other testing and quality related topics.
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Full-day Tutorial: Risk-driven Testing with the STEP™ Process Monday, May 2, 2011, 8:30 a.m.
Half-day Tutorial: Software Performance Testing: Preparing for a Successful Test Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 1:00 p.m. |
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Polteq Test Services B.V.
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Martin Pol has played a significant role in helping to raise the awareness and improve the performance of testing worldwide. Martin provides international testing consulting services through POLTEQ Test Services BV. He’s gained experience by managing testing processes and implementing and improving structured testing in many organizations around the world. A co-author of Test Process Improvement, a classic text on models for improving testing, Martin has developed approaches to successfully manage test outsourcing services. In 2010, Martin received the Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau award from The Netherlands for his lifetime contributions to the IT and software industries.
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Half-day Tutorial: Test Process Improvement for Small- and Medium-sized Organizations Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 8:30 a.m.
Concurrent Session: Service-driven Test Management Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 3:00 p.m.
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Green Hat
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A senior manager responsible for the global testing implementation services group at Green Hat, Glyn Rhodes works with global customers to ensure a successful transition to a more progressive integration test methodology. With experience in iterative and waterfall methodologies at investment and retail banks, telecoms, and utilities, Glyn has worked in software testing for more than ten years. Viewing software quality as the responsibility of the entire project team, Glyn has worked as a test strategist, manager, automator, and performance tester. Learn more at greenhat.com.
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Concurrent Session: Accelerate Your Testing with Service Virtualization Thursday, May 5, 2011, 1:30 p.m.
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Rice Consulting Services, Inc.
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A leading author, speaker, and consultant with more than thirty years of experience in the field of software testing and software quality, Randy Rice has worked with organizations worldwide to improve the quality of their information systems and optimize their testing processes. He is co-author (with William E. Perry) of Surviving the Top Ten Challenges of Software Testing. Randy is an officer of the American Software Testing Qualifications Board (ASTQB). Founder, principal consultant, and trainer at Rice Consulting Services, Randy can be contacted at riceconsulting.com where he publishes articles, newsletters, and other content about software testing and software quality. Visit Randy’s blog at randallrice.blogspot.com.
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Half-day Tutorial: Free and Cheap Test Tools Monday, May 2, 2011, 1:00 p.m.
Full-day Tutorial: Becoming an Influential Test Team Leader Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 8:30 a.m.
Keynote: Lightning Strikes the Keynotes Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 4:30 p.m. |
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ABB Corporate Research
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ABB's designated technical expert in Software Engineering, Brian Robinson is currently working as a senior principal scientist in the Corporate Research Group. In this role, Brian is the technical lead for ABB's global software improvement initiative, which has resulted in measurable savings in development groups throughout ABB. In addition, he is leading research to advance software engineering practices. Brian particularly enjoys bridging promising academic work into industrial practice and is actively collaborating with many top universities worldwide. He received his PhD in computer science from Case Western Reserve University and participates regularly in academic and industrial conferences.
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Concurrent Session: Automated Unit Test Generation: Improve Quality Earlier Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 1:45 p.m.
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Grove Consultants
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With more than twenty-five years in the software industry, Lloyd Roden has worked as a developer, managed an independent test group within a software house, and joined UK-based Grove Consultants in 1999. Lloyd has been a speaker at STAREAST, STARWEST, EuroSTAR, AsiaSTAR, Software Test Automation, Test Congress, and Unicom conferences as well as Special Interest Groups in software testing in several countries. He was Program Chair for both the tenth and eleventh EuroSTAR conferences.
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Half-day Tutorial: Becoming a Trusted Advisor to Senior Management Monday, May 2, 2011, 8:30 a.m.
Concurrent Session: Top Testing Challenges We Face Today Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 11:30 a.m.
Keynote: Lightning Strikes the Keynotes Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 4:30 p.m. |
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AmiBug.com
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Rob Sabourin, P. Eng., has more than twenty-five years of management experience leading teams of software development professionals. A well-respected member of the software engineering community, Rob has managed, trained, mentored, and coached hundreds of top professionals in the field. He frequently speaks at conferences and writes on software engineering, SQA, testing, management, and internationalization. Rob wrote I am a Bug!, the popular software testing children’s book; works as an adjunct professor of software engineering at McGill University; and serves as the principle consultant (and president/janitor) of AmiBug.Com, Inc. Contact Rob at rsabourin@amibug.com.
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Half-day Tutorial: Using Visual Models for Test Case Design Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 8:30 a.m.
Half-day Tutorial: Generating Great Testing Ideas Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 1:00 p.m.
Concurrent Session: Active Context Listening: The Tester’s Power Tool Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 1:45 p.m.
Keynote: Lightning Strikes the Keynotes Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 4:30 p.m. |
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Borland (a Micro Focus company)
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A senior product specialist for Silk Testing Solutions at Micro Focus, Clinton Sprauve has more than fifteen years of experience in the software quality assurance industry. Previously he was the senior product marketing manager for Silk Testing Solutions at Borland Software and Segue Software, and served as a senior technical sales engineer for both companies. Clint also has been an independent consultant specializing in test management and test automation.
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Concurrent Session: Half-Truths about Agile Testing Thursday, May 5, 2011, 11:15 a.m.
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Hewlett Packard
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At HP Software & Solutions, Filip Szymanski is a director of products, responsible for the HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) product line, which he helped to launch. Responsible for current and future ALM releases, his team focuses on requirements, development, and quality assurance. Working closely with Fortune 500 customers and user community leaders, Filip sets product direction with innovative and market changing capabilities. Before joining HP through the Mercury Interactive acquisition, he was a senior product manager for Quality Center and expanded that solution from test management to quality management across the application lifecycle.
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Concurrent Session: Streamline Test Planning with Business Process Models Thursday, May 5, 2011, 1:30 p.m.
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GridPoint, Inc.
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Dan Taylor is Director of Professional Services for GridPoint, an established leader in smart electric grid software that enables utilities, industry, and consumers to manage the transformation to a clean, efficient, twenty-first century grid. Dan has more than twenty years of experience in IT services delivery and operations as both a consultant and CIO. He has focused his career on providing performance improvement services to the IT sector, helping clients improve their IT operations and their software delivery capabilities. Dan is an active member of the Project Management Institute (PMI), the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), the American Society for Quality (ASQ), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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| Summit Session: Maximizing the Value of Testing Friday, May 6, 2011 |
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Improve Quality Services BV
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A leading international consultant and trainer, and a recognized expert in the area of software testing, Erik van Veenendaal (erikvanveenendaal.nl) is the founder of Improve Quality Services BV, a company that specializes in testing and quality management. He is the author of a number of books and papers within the profession, one of the core developers of the TMap testing methodology, and currently the vice-chair of the TMMi Foundation. Erik is a frequent keynote and tutorial speaker at international testing conferences. For his major contribution to the field of testing, Erik received the European Testing Excellence Award in December 2007.
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| Half-day Tutorial: Product Risk Assessments for Better Testing Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 8:30 a.m. |
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ThoughtWorks
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In his role as the Global Test Practice Lead for ThoughtWorks, Kristan Vingrys has been involved in solution delivery, coaching, and mentoring teams with a focus on testing, agile processes, and how they compliment each other. Kristan has more than ten years of experience in software testing with hands on experience as a test analyst, test team lead, consultant, and test manager. He has worked with products and applications in a diverse range of industries including telecommunications, finance, insurance, media, and logistics.
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Concurrent Session: The Agile Build Pipeline: A Tester’s Lessons Learned Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 1:45 p.m.
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