The current state of software test automation is in flux. Today’s technologies—the Web, JAVA, wireless technologies, etc.—have changed how we do business and how we need to test. Test automation technologies are changing to keep up. Edward Kit summarizes the key shifts in the automated software quality industry and presents a new automation model, including an integrated set of testing processes and techniques. Explore test design and automation solutions for testing real-time, non-standard, high-reliability, complex architectures—including a prepaid wireless voice recognition telecommunication system and embedded network processor case studies. Learn the key to performing coordinated, synchronized automated testing of systems containing all of the following: TCP/IP, Voice, Call Control, proprietary protocols, and SS7 GSM.

Gerald Weinberg

The New Economy is changing the dynamics of the market and the economics of test automation. There has never been a better time to invest the time and money to deploy the processes and tools necessary to achieve successful automation. In this keynote presentation, Linda Hayes discusses ways to reposition your test organization from a technical cost center to a business investment opportunity to gain the attention and commitment of senior management. Find out how to get more time and money, and what to deliver instead of bug reports. Discover why testing must change—and learn ways to "reinvent by rethinking" your purpose. Develop an understanding of what test automation really means in the New Economy and how it can successfully impact your organization.