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Wednesday, October 7, 2009 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Globally Distributed Quality Management Alex Gaber & Paul Unterberg, TechExcel • Process and tool considerations • Transitioning to agile, and the impact on your test team • Hybrid approach for automated and manual test management

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Collaborative Testing with a Twist Nivetha Padmanaban, ThoughtWorks • Explain how collaborating helps to improve the quality by capture intent/acceptance tests which in turn becomes and executable test. • Show why you need a powerful IDE to automate tests and how to evolve tests from early stages of development. • How to reuse the same of automated test steps used in manual testing process and how to speed up the manual regression.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Conformiq Qtronic “Industrial Strength” Automated Design Peter Magnusson, Conformiq • Fundamentals of automating black box test design. • Skills needed to model software and system operation to generate feature test scripts. • Conformiq Qtronic work flow.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Finding the Blue Sky – Performance Testing in the Cloud Mark Tomlinson, HP • Learn how to change and adapt to a new way of testing, tuning, analyzing and optimizing applications for the Cloud. • Discover new tips for designing and executing performance tests in Cloud computing environments. • Hear about new solutions from Cloud providers and the challenges faced by all performance testing tool vendors.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Optimize Embedded Device Testing with New Runtime Automation Technology Amit Ronen, Wind River • Identify untested code to focus on quality gaps. • Map tests to code to optimize test execution times. • Automate runtime validation of tough-to-test exception conditions

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Testing AJAX Applications – What Does It Take? Joachim Herschmann, Borland Software Corporation • Understand the challenges of testing Web 2.0 application technologies • Learn why object recognition, synchronization and speed are key for a truly robust and reliable test automation approach • Discover the importance of architecting testability into applications to optimize the testing process.

Thursday, October 8, 2009 9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Testing in the Cloud Ralph Decker, AppLabs, Inc. • Testing cloud functionality. • Application functional testing and quality assurance. • Challenges for performance testing in the cloud and unique security concerns.

Thursday, October 8, 2009 9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
How to Become a More Effective Tester with Visual Studio Team System 2010 Bruce Taimana, Microsoft • Manage and execute test cases all in one interface. • Work more efficiently with Fast Forward in Manual Testing. • Create rich and actionable bugs effortlessly.

Thursday, October 8, 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Forecast for Testing in an Online Environment: Cloudy David Allen, Chuck Rush, Chuck Hobart, & Linda Lemieux, VMC Consulting • Cloud computing concepts, tools and methods have been around for some time with a great body of work in making network applications secure, robust and scalable, and are becoming increasingly more important in our industry. • Every tester whose products or services will be deployed in the Cloud will need to start employing network testing basics to their baseline of tests. • In this presentation, VMC Consulting will demonstrate these basics, how to use them and how to go about learning and implementing more in depth in Testing in the Cloud in your company.

Thursday, October 8, 2009 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Advanced Multi-Tier Testing, Validation & Virtualization for SOA & BPM Rajeev Gupta, iTKO LISA • QA is moving beyond the user acceptance Testing paradigm, to uncover issues within every technology layer in today’s distributed enterprise software environments. • Validation of business outcomes happens within both software process tools and Governance tools. • Virtualization of constrained or unavailable software components and services allows teams to work in parallel with simulated test environments.

Thursday, October 8, 2009 1:30 p.m.
Next Generation Application Testing: Extensible, Standards-based and Application-aware Mughees Minhas, Oracle • Extensible & Standards-based - Leverage powerful, well-known industry standards like Java & Eclipse • Special integration for Oracle Apps – Provide customized accelerators for testing Oracle applications • One script for both functional testing and load testing

Thursday, October 8, 2009 1:30 p.m.
Maximizing Automation in Data Warehouse Testing Vasudeva Naidu, Infosys Technologies Ltd. • Understand the challenges in end –to-end testing of a data warehouse (source to target to reports). • Identifying effective test strategies to increase automation opportunities. • Analyze the need for a workbench to maximize automation across all stages of warehouse testing lifecycle.

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