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Capgemini
Murat Aksu heads Capital Markets Testing for North America in Capgemini. He has played several leadership roles in sales, service delivery, account management, competitive intelligence, product marketing and marketing in his career span of more than 13 years. During the 7 successful years working with HP Mercury Interactive, he was the Manager of Competitive Intelligence and Director of Product Marketing responsible for the Performance Testing and SOA solution tool sets. Prior to joining Capgemini, Murat was the VP of Products and Marketing at Zenoss. |
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Concurrent Session - World Quality Report: Trends in Technology, Organization, and Outsourcing Wednesday, October 7, 2009 11:30 a.m. |
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Intel
A senior engineering manager and agilist at Intel, Ray Arell has more than twenty-one years of hardware and software development, validation, and management experience. During his tenure, he has worked on a variety of teams focused on CPU, chipsets, and graphics system-level testing. Today, Ray manages an agile software engineering team in Intel’s Digital Office Platform Divisions and is a leading force in the agilization of Intel. Co-author of Change-Based Test Management: Improving the Software Validation Process, Ray has delivered keynotes and spoken at conferences worldwide. |
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Keynote Presentation - Moving to an Agile Testing Environment: What Went Right, What Went Wrong Wednesday, October 7, 2009 4:30 p.m. |
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Satisfice, Inc.
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, which will be published in spring 2009. |
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Full-day Tutorial - How to Teach Yourself Testing Tuesday, October 6, 2009 8:30 a.m. |
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Bender RBT, Inc.
Richard Bender has over forty years experience in software with a primary focus on quality assurance and testing. He has consulted internationally to large and small corporations, government agencies, and the military. He has been involved with establishing industry standards for software quality, serving as the Technical Lead for the International Y2K Test Certification Standards, and assisting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in defining their Software Quality Guidelines. He was one of the first programmers ever awarded IBM’s Outstanding Invention Award—for his breakthroughs in code based testing. |
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Half-day Tutorial - Finding Ambiguities in Requirements Tuesday, October 6, 2009 8:30 a.m.
Concurrent Session - The Role of the Analyst in Testing Wednesday, October 7, 2009 1:45 p.m. |
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Expedia, Inc.
Rex Black has been working in the computer industry for over fifteen years. The majority of that time has been spent in software testing, QA, and test automation, with an emphasis on developing and implementing 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. Rex has conducted certified training courses for HP of HP/Mercury software products, including QualityCenter, PerformanceCenter, and LoadRunner. Currently, Rex is managing the Performance Engineering for Expedia, Inc., which includes points of presence globally, such as Expedia.com, Hotels.com and Hotwire.com. |
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Concurrent Session - Performance Engineering: More Than Just Load Testing Wednesday, October 7, 2009 1:45 p.m. |
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DevelopSense
Michael Bolton has been teaching software testing on five continents for eight 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. Michael is a co-founder of the Toronto Workshops on Software Testing. He has a regular column in Better Software magazine, writes for Quality Software, and sporadically produces his own newsletter. Michael lives in Toronto, Canada, with his wife and two children. He can be reached at mb@developsense.com or through his Web site, http://www.developsense.com. |
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Half-day Tutorial - Tester's Clinic: Dealing with Tough Questions and Testing Myths Tuesday, October 6, 2009 8:30 a.m.
Concurrent Session - The Skill of Factoring: Identifying What to Test Thursday, October 8, 2009 3:00 p.m.
Bonus Session - Using the Secrets of Improv to Improve Your Testing Wednesday, October 7, 2009 1:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. |
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Oracle Corporation
Jennifer Bonine serves as the Strategic Quality and Process Improvement Executive for Oracle in their Retail Global Business Unit. She began her career in consulting, implementing large ERP solutions. She has held director level positions leading development, quality assurance and testing, organizational development, and process improvement teams for Fortune 500 companies. Throughout her career Jennifer has built several testing teams from the ground up while managing the organizational change that is required when creating these teams. She has had the opportunity to implement several CMMI and ITIL initiatives in various organizations. Jennifer has both practical experience and training in cultural change management techniques. |
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Concurrent Session - Understanding and Managing Change Thursday, October 8, 2009 3:00 p.m. |
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LogiGear
Hans Buwalda is an internationally recognized expert in test development and testing technology management and a pioneer of keyword-driven test automation. He was the first to present this approach, which is now widely used throughout the testing industry. Originally from The Netherlands, Hans now lives and works in California as CTO of LogiGear Corporation, directing the development of what has become the successful Action Based Testing™ methodology for test automation and its supporting TestArchitect™ toolset. Prior to joining LogiGear, Hans served as project director at CMG (now Logica) in the Netherlands. He is co-author of Integrated Test Design and Automation and a frequent speaker at international conferences. |
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Concurrent Session - Offshoring Test Automation: Double Benefit or Double Backlash Thursday, October 8, 2009 1:30 p.m. |
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PushToTest
Through his speaking, writing and consulting, Frank Cohen 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. Frank is Founder of PushToTest, the open-source test automation solutions business, and maintainer of the popular TestMaker open-source project. PushToTest customers include Jackson Labs, eBay, General Motors, TIBCO, BEA, Microsoft, and other Fortune 1000 companies. Frank is the author of several books, including FastSOA, The Way to Use Native XML Technology to Build Scalable Service Oriented Architecture, and Java Testing and Design. For the past 25 years he has developed and marketed some of the software industry's most successful products, including Norton Utilities for the Macintosh, Stacker, and SoftWindows. |
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Concurrent Session - Testing AJAX Applications Wednesday, October 7, 2009 11:30 a.m. |
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Software Quality Engineering
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 & EXPO, the STAR testing conferences, and Software Quality Engineering’s new Agile Development Practices conference. 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, October 5, 2009 8:30 a.m.
Bonus Session - Speaking 101: Tips and Tricks Tuesday, October 6, 2009 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Bonus Session - Testing Dialogues: Management Issues Thursday, October 8, 2009 9:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. |
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Ross Collard, Collard and Company
As an unusually experienced and accomplished consultant, Ross Collard functions best as a trusted senior advisor in information technology. He has been known as a Jedi Master of testing and quality. In 1980 Ross founded Collard & Company, a training and consulting firm, which specialized during its first 10 years in strategic planning for information technology, and in technology architecture, forecasting and assessment. About 20 years ago, C&C began to focus on software testing and software quality improvement. Ross has trained over 10,000 professionals and managers in software testing and quality, and his materials have been used to train another 60,000. Collard has taught as an adjunct professor for several years at UC Berkeley, Harvard, NYU, and George Washington U. He has also been a keynote speaker for about 25 major international software conferences. Collard founded a non-profit organization of experts in advanced areas of software testing, see www.performance-workshop.org. Ross is writing a wide and deep series of 25 books, currently 90% complete, on software testing and quality. |
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Bonus Session - The Reality of Testing Tuesday, October 6, 2009 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. |
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Software Quality Engineering
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 range 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 a frequent speaker at testing conferences including every STAR conference since its inception. |
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Half-day Tutorial - Measurement and Metrics for Test Managers Monday, October 5, 2009 1:00 p.m.
Full-day Tutorial - Essential Test Management and Planning Tuesday, October 6, 2009 8:30 a.m.
Keynote Presentation - The Marine Corps Principles of Leadership Wednesday, October 7, 2009 10:00 a.m. |
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Ultimate Software
Lisa Crispin is an agile testing coach and practitioner. She is the co-author, with Janet Gregory, of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams. She specializes in showing testers and agile teams how testers can add value and how to guide development with business-facing tests. Her mission is to bring agile joy to the software testing world and testing joy to the agile development world. Lisa joined her first agile team in 2000, having enjoyed many years working as a programmer, analyst, tester, and QA director. She is a tester on a Scrum team and Director of Agile Software Development for Ultimate Software. Previously, she spent more than five years as a tester on a Scrum/XP team at ePlan Services, Inc. She frequently leads tutorials and workshops on agile testing at conferences in North America and Europe. Lisa regularly contributes articles about agile testing to publications such as Better Software magazine, IEEE Software, and Methods and Tools. Lisa also co-authored Testing Extreme Programming with Tip House. For more about Lisa’s work, visit www.lisacrispin.com |
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Half-day Tutorial - Making Test Automation Work in Agile Projects Monday, October 5, 2009 8:30 a.m. |
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Independent Test Consultant
Dale Emery has worked in the software industry since 1980 as a developer, manager, process steward, trainer, and consultant. He helps clients improve by applying the agile principles of alignment on shared goals, focus on business value, early and frequent delivery, collaboration, communication, feedback, and visibility. |
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Concurrent Session - Resistance as a Resource: Moving Your Organization to Higher Quality Thursday, October 8, 2009 9:45 a.m. |
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IBM
IBM Distinguished Engineer Chris Ferris is CTO of Industry Standards, Software Group Standards Strategy organization. He has been involved in the architecture, design, and engineering of distributed systems for most of his twenty-eight year career in IT and has been engaged in open standards development for XML and Web services since 1999. He chaired the WS-I Basic Profile Working Group and is editor for the WS-I Basic Profile 1.2 and 2.0. He co-chairs the W3C Web Services Policy WG and the W3C XML Protocols WG. He represents IBM on the OASIS WS-RX TC. He is an author and editor of the WS-Reliable Messaging specification and the IBM RAMP profile. |
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Concurrent Session - Coloring Outside the Lines: Web Services Interoperability Testing Wednesday, October 7, 2009 3:00 p.m. |
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Electronic Arts
An industry veteran with more than fifteen years of experience, Jane Fraser joined Pogo (a division of Electronic Arts) in 2004. As QA director, Jane now oversees the QA Department for Pogo.com, which includes a micro transaction service (Pogo.com) and a subscription service (Club Pogo). She has successfully launched more than sixty games including Scrabble and Lottso. At Pogo, she has provided leadership, established testing process, and managed a team of testers, which has grown from six employees to a team of sixty-eight. Prior to joining Pogo, Jane worked for companies including Corel, Vodafone, and Bigwords.com and has brought her expertise from the e-commerce and telecom industry to the online gaming world. |
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Concurrent Session - Test Planning: Defining Boundaries and Setting Expectations Thursday, October 8, 2009 11:15 a.m. |
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Cognizant Technology Solutions
Pradeep G heads the Automation Center of Excellence (ACoE) at Cognizant Technology Solutions. For more than ten years, his professional career has been dedicated to improving the testing process through innovative approaches to test automation and providing automation strategies to large engagements. As leader of a team of 650+ automation experts at Cognizant, Pradeep is recognized for his ability to work with a variety of automation projects to solve problems and address issues in the organization. He brings immense experience in a variety of commercial, open source automation, and test management tools.
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Concurrent Session - Choosing the Right Test Cases for Automation Thursday, October 8, 2009 11:15 a.m. |
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Grove Consultants
Julie Gardiner started working in the IT industry in the late 1980s and has spent time 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 Grove Consultants, Julie provides consultancy and training in all aspects of testing, specializing in risk-based testing, agile testing, test management, and people issues. She is a certified ScrumMaster. Julie won best presentation at STAREAST 2007 and 2005; best presentation at BCS SIGiST 2005; and best tutorial at EuroSTAR 2006. In 2008, she was a keynote speaker at STARWEST and STANZ. |
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Half-day Tutorial - Branch Out Using Classification Trees for Test Case Design Monday, October 5, 2009 8:30 a.m.
Half-day Tutorial - Risk-based Testing: Focusing Your Scarce Resources Monday, October 5, 2009 1:00 p.m.
Full-day Tutorial - How to Build, Support, and Add Value to Your Test Team Tuesday, October 6, 2009 8:30 a.m.
Concurrent Session - Test Environments: The Weakest Link in Your Testing Chain Thursday, October 8, 2009 1:30 p.m. |
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Software Testing Consultant
Dorothy Graham has been in testing for more than thirty years and is co-author of three books: Software Inspection, Software Test Automation, and Foundations of Software Testing. Dorothy helped to start testing qualifications in the UK. She holds the European Excellence Award in Software Testing and is Programmer Chair for EuroSTAR 2009. |
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Full-day Tutorial - Test Automation: The Smart Way Tuesday, October 6, 2009 8:30 a.m.
Concurrent Session - Test Automation Objectives Wednesday, October 7, 2009 3:00 p.m. |
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DragonFire, Inc.
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, 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. Her 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 agile and testing software conferences in North America, including the STAR testing conferences. |
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Half-day Tutorial - Planning Your Agile Testing: A Practical Guide Monday, October 5, 2009 1:00 p.m.
Concurrent Session- Seven Factors for Agile Testing Success Thursday, October 8, 2009 9:45 a.m. |
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iTKO Lisa
Rajeev Gupta is a solution strategist with more than twelve years of hands-on experience in software architecture, design, development, and testing of large-scale enterprise applications. As a leader of the Value Delivery practice at iTKO, he has mentored customer teams and led testing and virtualization strategies for Fortune 500 clients including eBay, American Airlines, Washington Mutual, Time Warner, US Navy, and others. Rajeev is a passionate advocate of and blogger on software quality and has presented at STARWEST and other prestigious conferences. Prior to iTKO, he managed SOA Quality for enterprise applications at Sun Microsystems. |
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Concurrent Session- Testing Without Constraints: Service Virtualization Thursday, October 8, 2009 3:00 p.m. |
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CardioNet, Inc.
JeanAnn Harrison has ten years of experience in software quality assurance testing and three years testing embedded software on portable devices. She currently works for CardioNet, Inc. where her primary role is testing software embedded in medical devices that provide diagnostic data for physicians to determine their patient's heart condition. Jean Ann’s project experience includes large multiple systems testing. She has been a key developer and trainer in documentation generation for testers, developers, project managers, and trainers. Jean Ann has gained broad experience in various software testing processes and applying practices to large multi-million dollar corporations, venture capital, and start-up companies. |
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Concurrent Session - System Integration Testing of Portable Devices Thursday, October 8, 2009 11:15 a.m. |
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Borland - a Micro Focus Company
A director of product management at Borland, Joachim Herschmann is responsible for the company's Lifecycle Quality Management (LQM) products. He joined Borland in April 2006 as the LQM Solutions Marketing Manager for Europe through the acquisition of Segue, a leading testing solutions provider. At Segue, Joachim was technical account manager and consultant for software testing and quality assurance. With more than fifteen years of experience in software development and testing, Joachim has been a frequent speaker and instructor on these topics. |
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Concurrent Session - Improving Software Testing: One Oraganization's Journey Thursday, October 8, 2009 1:30 p.m.
Summit Session - The Future of Testing - How Testing and Technology Will Change October 9, 2009 1:45 p.m. |
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Cigital
Paco Hope is a technical manager with Cigital, Inc., and has twelve years of experience in application security at the software and operating system level. He has focused on analyzing the security of Web-based applications and embedded systems (online gaming, lottery systems, cell phones, casino gaming devices, and smart cards). He is a frequent speaker on software security, security testing, and Web application security. Paco is co-author of the Web Security Testing Cookbook and is a subject matter expert for the Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) certification. |
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Half-day Tutorial - Testing Rich Internet Applications Tuesday, October 6, 2009 1:00 p.m.
Concurrent Session - Automating Web Testing with cURL and Perl Wednesday, October 7, 2009 1:45 p.m. |
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Antti Huima, CTO for Conformiq, is a well-known speaker in the area of advanced model-based testing. The original creator of Conformiq’s model-based testing technology, Antti works closely with the company’s strategic customers. He has delivered several invited talks and tutorials internationally and serves on program committees regularly. Antti has taught multiple university-level courses on the mathematics behind automated test design. |
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Concurrent Session - Automated Test Design: Its Time Has Come Thursday, October 8, 2009 3:00 p.m. |
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ZenTEST Labs
Krishna Iyer, CEO of ZenTEST Labs, is a young entrepreneur, a prolific speaker, and author. Before ZenTEST Labs, Krishna was a quality manager at Kanbay where he worked with clients such as CitiFinancial, HSBC, IBM, and GE. Krishna shapes ZenTEST Labs strategy using his financial background, improves ZenTEST Labs operations using his rich IT and process consulting experience, and transforms its culture using his expertise as a behavioral trainer. Krishna is a regular presenter at testing and quality conferences including STARWEST and STAREAST. |
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Concurrent Session - Seven Habits of Highly Effective Automation Testers Thursday, October 8, 2009 9:45 a.m. |
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Microsoft
Ken Johnston is the group manager for the Microsoft Office Internet Platform & Operations team, which develops manageability features for server products and services and provides live site operations support for Office Online, Office Live, CRM Online, and several other services. Since joining Microsoft in 1998, Ken has filled many other roles, including test lead on Site Server and MCIS and test manager on Hosted Exchange, Knowledge Worker Services, Net Docs, and the Microsoft Billing and Subscription Platform service. From 2004 to 2006, he served as the Microsoft Director of Test Excellence. |
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Half-day Tutorial - What We Can Learn from Big Bugs that Got Away Tuesday, October 6, 2009 1:00 p.m.
Concurrent Session - Testing the Client and the Cloud Wednesday, October 7, 2009 1:45 p.m. |
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SAIC
Sara Jones has more than fourteen years of professional experience in the software development industry including independent verification and validation of application software for commercial and government use. Sara currently is a test manager at SAIC in San Diego. As test manager, she is responsible for the software testing of the enterprise-wide applications which include the Financial ERP applications, Human Resource ERP applications, data storage and retrieval, and security applications. This support includes providing test resources, test planning, test execution, user acceptance test strategies, and test metrics and reports. Sara specializes in test planning and test management strategies. |
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Concurrent Session- Managing a Successful User Acceptance Test Thursday, October 8, 2009 11:15 a.m. |
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PayPal
Anu Kak is a director of software quality assurance at PayPal. In his twenty-three years in the software industry, Anu has been an enterprise applications developer, customer support engineer, and software quality assurance professional. For the past eighteen years, he 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 various locations, Anu coordinates with other QA groups in PayPal on managing new testing strategies, establishing best QA practices, and strategic QA direction. |
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Concurrent Session- Managing a Globally Distributed Test Organization Thursday, October 8, 2009 9:45 a.m. |
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Kohl Concepts, Inc.
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 is a regular contributor to Better Software magazine. |
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Half-day Tutorial - Exploratory Software Testing Interactive Monday, October 5, 2009 8:30 a.m.
Half-day Tutorial - Managing Exploratory Testing Tuesday, October 6, 2009 8:30 a.m. |
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Net Objectives
Amir Kolsky is a Lean/Agile coach and trainer. He has been coaching teams on both the process and technical aspects with emphasis on testing and test driven development. He has worked with teams from a myriad of industries, from semiconductor fabrication, to web and windows applications, to embedded systems. Before that, he used to work in IBM Research and worked for and started several companies. He actually writes code. |
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Full Day Tutorial - Transition to Agile Development: A Tester's View Monday, October 5, 2009 8:30 a.m. |
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Capgemini
The vice president of Global Quality and Testing Services for Capgemini’s Financial Services Sector, Charlie Li helps customers mitigate the risks of IT deployments and reduce the overall cost of IT. He is the author of Optimize Quality for Business Outcomes: A Practical Approach to Software Testing, now in its third edition in both English and Japanese. Charlie has published several white papers in the automated quality software industry and has spoken at leading industry events throughout the country including both the STAREAST and STARWEST conferences. |
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Concurrent Session - World Quality Report: Trends in Technology, Organization, and Outsourcing Wednesday, October 7, 2009 11:30 a.m. |
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Hewlett-Packard
Senior Security Consultant with Hewlett-Packard’s Application Security Center (ASC), Rafal Los has more than thirteen years of experience in network and system design, security policy and process design, risk analysis, penetration testing, and consulting. For the past eight years, he has focused on information security and risk management, leading security architecture teams, and managing successful enterprise security programs for General Electric and other Fortune 100 companies, as well as SMB enterprises. Previously, Rafal spent three years in-house with GE Consumer Finance, leading its security programs. |
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Concurrent Session - Detective Work for Testers: Finding Workflow-based Defects Wednesday, October 7, 2009 3:00 p.m. |
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Workroom Productions, Ltd.
Based in London, James Lyndsay is an independent test strategist who has been testing for twenty-three years. Since forming Workroom Productions in 1994, James has worked in a variety of businesses and project styles from retail to telecommunications and from rapidly-evolving Internet start-ups to more traditional, large-scale enterprises. James was an internal irritant to the ISEB exam process for five years, is a regular speaker and occasional teacher, and organizes the London Exploratory Workshop in Testing. |
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Keynote Presentation - The Irrational Tester Thursday, October 8, 2009 4:15 p.m. |
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Arizona State Retirement System
With more than fifteen years in the software industry, Molly Mahai is currently QA Manager at the Arizona State Retirement System. After obtaining a bachelor’s degree in computer science, she worked as a developer for nine years before entering management. After a year of managing developers, Molly found her place managing QA engineers and testers. With only a technical background, Molly pursued an MBA to enhance her skills in the management arena. Her passion lies in developing and empowering people to reach their full potential thereby bringing success to the organization. |
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Concurrent Session - The Journey from Chaos to Credibility Wednesday, October 7, 2009 1:45 p.m. |
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ZenTEST Labs
Mukesh Mulchandani, CTO of ZenTEST Labs, is responsible for establishing ZenTEST Labs as a key player in the software testing domain. Mukesh has eight years of experience in the information technology industry, most of which has been in the banking and financial services sector. Before joining ZenTEST Labs, Mukesh worked with Kanbay, Capgemini Consulting and Fortune 500 clients, including Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch. He has played a major role in designing functional automation processes at the organizational level. Mukesh is a regular presenter at STARWEST and STAREAST. |
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Concurrent Session - Seven Habits of Highly Effective Automation Testers Thursday, October 8, 2009 9:45 a.m. |
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Microsoft
A tester since 1993, Alan Page joined Microsoft in 1995 and currently is the Director of Test Excellence, where he oversees the technical training program for testers and other activities focused on improving testers, test tools, and testing across Microsoft. At Microsoft, Alan has worked on various versions of Windows, Internet Explorer, and Windows CE. He is the lead author of How We Test Software at Microsoft (http://www.hwtsam.com) and writes about testing on his blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/alanpa). Alan is a board member of the Seattle Area Software Quality Assurance Group (SASQAG) and speaks frequently about software testing and careers for software testers. |
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Concurrent Session - Virtualization: The Path to Multiple Efficiencies Wednesday, October 7, 2009 3:00 p.m. |
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Coveros, Inc.
Jeffery 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 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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Summit Session - The ROI of Testing and Quality: A Business Executive’s View Friday, October 9, 2009 12:45 p.m. |
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POLTEQ IT Services BV
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 IT Services BV. He’s gained experience by managing testing processes and implementing and improving structured testing in many organizations in different branches. |
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Full-day Tutorial - Test Process Improvement Monday, October 5, 2009 8:30 a.m.
Concurrent Session - Test Process Improvement on a Shoestring Thursday, October 8, 2009 1:30 p.m. |
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Intuit
A senior engineering manager at Intuit, Shoba Raj is responsible for the Autolab and the Testing Center of Excellence (TCOE). Very passionate about test automation for more than twelve years, Shoba works closely with development and test teams and provides tools, work flows, and processes. She provides training to write efficient GUI automation frameworks and spearheads the continual improvement of the Autolab, while providing process improvements for Intuit's Software Testing strategy. Shoba also works with global teams providing them with these shared processes.
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Concurrent Session - Maximize Your Investment in Automation Tools Thursday, October 8, 2009 1:30 p.m. |
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MetLife Auto and Home
Marc René is currently a business Director at MetLife Auto and Home. Marc's experience with software quality assurance, testing, software engineering, process improvement, and customer support spans more than twenty years. Marc has experience in the defense, process control for manufacturing and production, gaming, and insurance industries. In addition, he has published articles in The Journal of Software Testing Professionals, Software Quality Professional, Better Software magazine, and other industry trade journals. Marc has spoken multiple times at the STAREAST Conference as well as for many other quality, testing, and project management groups. Marc is also an adjunct professor of computer science at Rhode Island College. |
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Rice Consulting Services, Inc.
Randy Rice is a leading author, speaker, and consultant in the field of software testing and software quality. He has worked with major organizations worldwide to improve the quality of their information systems and to optimize their testing processes. Randy has more than thirty years of experience building and testing mission-critical projects in a variety of environments and has authored many training courses in software testing and software engineering. He is publisher of The Software Quality Advisor newsletter and co-author (with William E. Perry) of Surviving the Top Ten Challenges of Software Testing. Randy serves on the board of directors of the American Software Testing Qualifications Board (ASTQB). |
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Full-day Tutorial - Becoming an Influential Test Team Leader Monday, October 5, 2009 8:30 a.m.
Concurrent Session - Free and Cheap Test Tools Wednesday, October 7, 2009 11:30 a.m.
Concurrent Session - Make Defects Pay with Root Cause Analysis Thursday, October 8, 2009 9:45 a.m. |
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Grove Consultants
Lloyd Roden has been in the software industry since 1980, beginning his career as a programmer and moving into software testing in 1988. Three years later, he joined Peterborough Software where he started the Independent Test Unit. Since 1999, Lloyd has been with Grove Consultants, based in the UK, where he provides consultancy and training in all aspects of testing, specializing in test management, people issues in testing, and test automation. Lloyd has been a keynote speaker at conferences and software testing special interest groups worldwide. He received the European Software Testing Excellence Award in 2004. |
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Half-day Tutorial - Becoming a Trusted Advisor to Senior Management Monday, October 5, 2009 8:30 a.m.
Full-day Tutorial - How to Build, Support, and Add Value to Your Test Team Tuesday, October 6, 2009 8:30 a.m.
Keynote Presentation - The Top Testing Challenges—or Opportunities—We Face Today Thursday, October 8, 2009 8:30 a.m.
Concurrent Session - Effective and Efficient Testing: Reality or Myth? Wednesday, October 7, 2009 11:30 a.m. |
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Microsoft
Harry Robinson is Principal Software Development Engineer in Test for Microsoft's Bing team. He has twenty years of software development and testing experience at AT&T Bell Labs, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, and Google as well as time spent in the startup trenches. While at Bell Labs, Harry created a model-based testing system that won the 1995 AT&T Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Area of Quality. At Microsoft, he pioneered the model-based test generation technology, which won the Microsoft Best Practice Award in 2001. Harry holds two patents for software test automation methods, maintains the site www.model-based-testing.org, and speaks and writes frequently on software testing and automation issues. |
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Half-day Tutorial - Model-based Testing Monday, October 5, 2009 1:00 p.m.
Concurrent Session - What Would MacGyver Do? Wednesday, October 7, 2009 11:30 a.m. |
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AmiBug.com
Robert 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, Robert 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. Robert 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 Robert at rsabourin@amibug.com. |
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Half-day Tutorial - Testing Under Pressure: Five Key Principles Tuesday, October 6, 2009 1:00 p.m.
Concurrent Session - Testing Lessons from Classic Fairy Tales Wednesday, October 7, 2009 3:00 p.m.
Bonus Session - Testing Dialogues: Management Issues Tuesday, October 8, 2009 9:45 a.m. 12:15 p.m. |
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Borland - a Micro Focus Company
Dietmar Strasser is Borland's Director of Quality Assurance in Borland's largest development facility in Linz, Austria. He has been on the Silk development team for more than ten years in various engineering roles and is currently providing quality management services to their agile development teams. Before this he was responsible for the overall quality across the entire suite of Borland's quality testing and management tools. His experience in traditional, agile, and requirements-based testing approaches has resulted in Borland's delivery of high-quality, high-value products and services for customers worldwide. |
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Concurrent Session - Toward 21st Century Automation for Agile Testing Thursday, October 8, 2009 11:15 a.m. |
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POLTEQ IT Services BV
Ruud Teunissen has performed several test functions in a number of IT projects: tester, test specialist, test consultant, and test manager. Ruud participated in the development of the structured testing methodology TMap®—Test Management Approach. Together with Martin Pol and Erik van Veenendaal, Ruud is co-author of several books on structured testing, including Software Testing: A Guide to the TMap® Approach.
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Full-day Tutorial - Test Process Improvement Monday, October 5, 2009 8:30 a.m.
Half-day Tutorial - Reliable Test Effort Estimation Tuesday, October 6, 2009 1:00 p.m. |
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GDI InfoTech
Quality and technology management consultant for GDI Infotech, Paul Trompeter has almost twenty-five years of experience in the computer industry. He has worked as a technical principal and director in software development, program management, software quality assurance and testing, quality management, and software education. Paul has worked in the domains of satellite and data communications, fault tolerant operating systems, Web file/cache servers, computer manufacturing, and information technology. He has successfully led efforts for methodology development, test automation, and process improvement.
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Concurrent Session - Six Budget Killers for Testing Organizations Thursday, October 8, 2009 3:00 p.m. |
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Lockheed Martin
Tom Wissink has worked in software development, software configuration management, integration and test, and different levels of software management for more than thirty years. As a Lockheed Martin Fellow, he is responsible for identifying and incorporating integration and test best practices throughout Lockheed Martin. co-chair of the National Defense Industry Association’s Developmental Test & Evaluation Committee, Tom has helped influence legislation and policy changes to improve software testing in US Government acquisition and program execution.
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Summit Session - Changing the Software Test Culture: Step-by-Step Friday, October 9, 9:00 a.m. |
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Google
James Whittaker has spent his career in software testing. He was an early thought leader in model-based testing where his Ph.D. dissertation became a standard reference on the subject. While a professor at the Florida Institute of Technology, James founded the world’s largest academic software testing research center and helped make testing a degree track for undergraduates. While at FIT, he wrote How to Break Software and the series follow-ups How to Break Software Security (with Hugh Thompson) and How to Break Web Software (with Mike Andrews). As a software architect for Visual Studio® Team System at Microsoft, James transformed many of his testing ideas into tools and techniques for developers and testers and wrote the book Exploratory Software Testing. He is currently the Test Engineering Director for the Kirkland and Seattle offices of Google where he’s busy forging a future in which software just works.
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Half-day Tutorial - Whittaker: On Testing Tuesday, October 6, 2009 8:30 a.m.
Keynote Presentation - Large-scale Exploratory Testing: Let's Take a Tour Wednesday, October 7, 2009 8:45 a.m.
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