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23rd Test Management Forum

23rd Test Management Forum

Submitted by Paul Gerrard on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 09:40.
NOW FULLY BOOKED - SORRY



The 23rd Test Management forum will take place on Wednesday 29th July at the conference centre at Balls's Brothers, Minster Pavement.

1.30pmRegistration/Tea/Coffee
2.00pmIntroduction
Room ARoom BRoom C
2.15pm
Roy Dalgleish, British Airways: Communication Skills for Test Managers
Communication skills form a central part of the toolkit of any tester. High quality testing is useless if the results of testing and their significance are obscured by poor quality communication to stakeholders. So why is it that so many testers say that "We don't get listened to!"? How do we bridge the gap from "data" to "meaningful communication" for our stakeholders? In fact, how would it be if we got listened to every time? This session delivers practical advice on how to identify your audience's preferred communication style, how to work with that style, and how to position yourself in a way most likely to get you heard.
Paul Rolfe/Andreas Golze/Ian Howles, HP: How Testing can make IT Lean
Today’s businesses are challenged by intense competition and growing customers demand for more and better services. This imposes on IT organizations the pressure to come up with new solutions in shorter time frames, while maintaining and improving the existing service landscape.
To achieve this IT organizations have to improve the communication with the end user and the various stakeholders who facilitate the change and the operation of a growing applications landscape.
One way to help solve these issues is to establish an end to end Testing Lifecycle which acts like a sensor in a closed-loop and feeds date into the governance system (Controller) to optimize IT provision.
This discussion explores the different perspectives and highlights potential risks and opportunities. 		Jeremy Gidlow, Chris Thompson, Intechnica: Load testing across the Internet
The testing of online applications over the internet is a growing market driven by convenience and a number of commercial benefits.

This session looks at the benefits and issues associated with Internet load testing and discusses the factors which determine the suitability and success of this testing approach.

3.30pmTea/Coffee
 Sogeti, The Value of Training in Today's marketGojko Adzic, Neuri Ltd: Specification workshops: Getting the business and developers to listen to testers
  • Involving the whole implementation team (BAs, developers, testers) in the producing the specifications leads to more complete specifications and avoid functional gaps and inconsistencies
  • Specification workshops facilitate this process efficiently
  • They also facilitate knowledge transfer and building a shared understanding of "done"
  • Testers get to learn about the future software first hand, but also influence it by participating in the workshops
  • Done frequently, this eliminates much of the waste in testing today and helps testers build in quality from the start
Gordon Cruickshank, CEO eoLogic: Can early validation of Software Architecture improve performance and reliability?

This session explores new techniques for validating software architectures aimed at complementing and increasing the effectiveness of performance testing.
Can innovations in model based testing plus pattern and anti-pattern recognition provide increased focus for the performance testing function? Can they lead to significant cost savings and reduce time-to-market? What is the relationship between static and dynamic testing?

5.15pmDrinks Reception


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