A Speakers review of ICS_Test Dusseldorf April 2005
Submitted by neill mccarthy on Sun, 08/05/2005 - 20:06.
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It has taken longer then I expected to update from this conference, however I feel I can now that I have finally done my expenses.
It is not the first time I have spoken at conference but it is the first of the ICS events I have spoken at. I have to say it was a wonderful event to have spoken at. The level of professionalism of the event crew was wonderful. There was a separate speakers room which gave me some where to prepare prior to the speech and there were radio mikes in all the rooms, each presenters slides where held on a laptop in the room and it was set up so that the slides displayed the running time as the default on the speakers PC. The team were helpful and attentive and they really helped make the event a great success. There was a speaker’s meal on one of the evenings and overall the stay was wonderfully well organised and arranged.
A pleasure to speak at, it should be considered an event to go to on all European testers calendars.
Of the conference talks them selves there were some wonderful sessions, the two non keynotes that really stood out for me were in two different streams from Philips where two similar testing groups had taken two different approaches to test improvement one having gone down the TPI route and one down the TMM approach. Interestingly from similar start points they ended up in very similar and improved places.
There were some excellent keynotes, Carol Dekkers gave a wonderful talk with a lot of real and useful metrics, and there was a good talk on personality types using the myers briggs model for how to communicate with testers, though it was called motivating testers, I am not sure it did.
I was impressed with the key note on Model based testing and the associated tool, there were some interesting metrics on the time it saves in the generation of the test cases and the test models, for me a real gap was in the automation of testing via the models, however this was not the focus of the tool as the savings they had seen to be most effective was in the generation of the test cases and conditions over manual scripting. I am sure from the stats given there is value in this however the calculation and understanding of the most appropriate level of abstraction for the model I feel is a real challenge and I have yet to feel has been well addressed, though I must admit there is still a lot on the subject I have yet to read.
There were a few excellent talk from Latvian QA and Testers that make me feel that there is a near shore out sourcing wave waiting to happen as there was a great deal of understanding of the subject and of the issues in testing and quality being shown from this region, I look forward to hearing more from some of these people who I got details from in this area.
Elfriede Dustin, though not a keynote, gave an interesting talk on how to bring testing up the lifecycle and how to demonstrate its value in this new world where testers are becoming more technical and more focussed on the early lifecycle and white box techniques.
The one downside to this conference where the large number of talks that turned into - buy my product or buy my service, a shame as it spoiled a number of interesting and potentially good talks.
It is not the first time I have spoken at conference but it is the first of the ICS events I have spoken at. I have to say it was a wonderful event to have spoken at. The level of professionalism of the event crew was wonderful. There was a separate speakers room which gave me some where to prepare prior to the speech and there were radio mikes in all the rooms, each presenters slides where held on a laptop in the room and it was set up so that the slides displayed the running time as the default on the speakers PC. The team were helpful and attentive and they really helped make the event a great success. There was a speaker’s meal on one of the evenings and overall the stay was wonderfully well organised and arranged.
A pleasure to speak at, it should be considered an event to go to on all European testers calendars.
Of the conference talks them selves there were some wonderful sessions, the two non keynotes that really stood out for me were in two different streams from Philips where two similar testing groups had taken two different approaches to test improvement one having gone down the TPI route and one down the TMM approach. Interestingly from similar start points they ended up in very similar and improved places.
There were some excellent keynotes, Carol Dekkers gave a wonderful talk with a lot of real and useful metrics, and there was a good talk on personality types using the myers briggs model for how to communicate with testers, though it was called motivating testers, I am not sure it did.
I was impressed with the key note on Model based testing and the associated tool, there were some interesting metrics on the time it saves in the generation of the test cases and the test models, for me a real gap was in the automation of testing via the models, however this was not the focus of the tool as the savings they had seen to be most effective was in the generation of the test cases and conditions over manual scripting. I am sure from the stats given there is value in this however the calculation and understanding of the most appropriate level of abstraction for the model I feel is a real challenge and I have yet to feel has been well addressed, though I must admit there is still a lot on the subject I have yet to read.
There were a few excellent talk from Latvian QA and Testers that make me feel that there is a near shore out sourcing wave waiting to happen as there was a great deal of understanding of the subject and of the issues in testing and quality being shown from this region, I look forward to hearing more from some of these people who I got details from in this area.
Elfriede Dustin, though not a keynote, gave an interesting talk on how to bring testing up the lifecycle and how to demonstrate its value in this new world where testers are becoming more technical and more focussed on the early lifecycle and white box techniques.
The one downside to this conference where the large number of talks that turned into - buy my product or buy my service, a shame as it spoiled a number of interesting and potentially good talks.