SEE YOU NEXT YEAROCTOBER 29 - 31, 2008

Bilbao / Spain

Closing / Cierre / Amaiera

Venue

It received the Apex Award for Best Convention Centre of the World 2003

The Conference Centre and Concert Hall.

Euskalduna Jauregia. Bilbao / Spain

One of the most outstanding contemporary workscarried out by Spanish architects

Euskalduna Jauregia Bilbao

Opening

Joseba Jauregizar and Jesús de la Maza– Innovalia (ES)

Opening 17th

Tutorials

“ Software people have ambivalent relationship with metrics, they distrust anything that looks like measurement ”

Tutorial 1 17th – Software development and test measurements and metrics

Doron Cherkovsky – Israel Aircraft Industries (Israel)

“ Any model is a compromise with the real world ”

Tutorial 2 17th – Model-Based Testing

Paul Jorgensen – Grand Valley State University (USA)

Keynotes

“ Be creative; make defects but have a a method to detect them as soon as possible ”

Keynote 17th – Virtually defect-free Software in less time

Michael Fagan – Michael Fagan Associates (USA)

“ The control of your colleague’s trust and confidence is in your hands ”

Keynote 18th – Psychology behind Test Management

Yaron Tsubery – Comverse (Israel)

“ Quality has business value ”

Keynote 19th – Controlling project performance by using a defect model

Ben Linders – Ericsson · Telecommunicatie, B.V (The Netherlands)

Tracks

“ Fitness measure” determines which solutions are better than others ”

TRACK · A V&V Strategies 17th(1) – Demonstrating Genetic Algorithm: optimizing project duration while ensuring System Quality

Avner Engel – Israel Aerospace Industries (Israel)

“ Measurements help us to identify strong and weak points of our processes ”

TRACK · A V&V Strategies 17th(2) – Model of measurement and analysis for processes of Embedded Software development

Cláudia Elias – Quality Software (Brasil)

“ Small and modular components allows youto use automatic permutations of test scripts ”

TRACK · B Testing Reusability 18th(1) – Reusability & modular test cases design as used in Embedded and financial projects

Ori Avihail – TACT Ltd., Project Management division (Israel)

“ If there is no RISK, there is no TEST ”

TRACK · C QA Management for Embedded Systems 18th(1) – Pitfalls of system integration

Jan van Moll – Sioux Embedded Systems BV (The Netherlands)

“ Interesting test cases are often hidden in a huge amount of data,automatically genarated by tools ”

TRACK · C QA Management for Embedded Systems 18th(2) – Integrated automated test case generation and static analysis

Jan Peleska – University of Bremen (Germany)Cornelia Zhalten – Verified Systems International GmbH (Germany)

“ It’s important to consider scenarios that are executed more frequently ”

TRACK · C QA Management for Embedded Systems 18th(3) – The method, the tools and rationales for assessing dynamic memory efficiency in Embedded Real-Time Systems in practice

Christian Del Rosso – Nokia Research Center (Finland)

“ Safety doesn’t reside in any distinct function but in the entire System ”

TRACK · C QA Management for Embedded Systems 18th(4) – Test First Practices for safety critical development: An Agile approach

Brian Shoemaker – ShoeBar Associates (USA)

“ Risk based regression testing prioritizes tests based in risk info and finds defects earlier in the process ”

TRACK · C QA Management for Embedded Systems 18th(5) – Risk based dynamic regression Test Model

Ruku Tekchandani – Intel (USA)

“ ET is an agile and close collaboration between moderators, testers and systemexperts that make all agreed decisions based on what they know at the time ”

TRACK · D Testing Techniques 18th(1) – Exploratory Testing, first time right

Derk-Jan De Grood – Collis (The Netherlands)

“ The right project specific balance is the key for cost efficiency ”

TRACK · D Testing Techniques 18th(2) – Advanced Test-Driven Development

Peter Zimmerer – The Siemens (Germany)

“ The programmers normally say “wow” when the system works, but wetesters normally say “wow” when the system crashes ”

TRACK · D Testing Techniques 18th(3) – Robustness Testing and fuzzing introduction

Antti Ihalainen – Codenomicon Ltd. (Finland)

“ With good formal specifications, it is easier for makingautomated test generations ”

TRACK · D Testing Techniques 18th(4) – Testing and monitoring techniques. Applications to communication protocols for wireless networks

Ana Cavalli – Institut National des Telecommunications (France)

“ If you are doing something that you know that is going to be reviewed,you will do it in your best way ”

TRACK · D Testing Techniques 18th(5) – Selective Homeworkless view

Shmuel Ur – IBM Research Lab (Israel)

“ Software metrics help ensure that the software development effortsmeet the goals and standars for software development in a organization ”

TRACK · E Metrics in testing and QA 19th(1) – Using metrics to Improve Software Quality

Anette Mirantes – Johns Hopkins University (USA)

“ Efficiency of the Reviews depends on the people involved. A Review should be active in order to find significant issues ”

TRACK · E Metrics in testing and QA 19th(2) – Metrics plan of Review’s effectiveness in the software life cycle

Catherine Goutherot – NTE S.A. (Spain)

“ Start small, gain awareness, evaluate regularly, improve in small steps,Learn by doing, get your feet wet, automate it later, anticipate change “

TRACK · E Metrics in Testing and QA 19th(3) – 2 measure = 2 change

René Van Eertwegh – Atos Origin Technical Automation (The Netherlands)

“ The only thing that does not change is that things change ”

TRACK · F Configuration Management 19th(1) – Configuration Management: Principles and Practises

Anne Mette Jonassen Hass – Delta (Denmark)

“ Software Configuration Patterns envolve the whole codegenerated and also how people work ”

TRACK · F Configuration Management 19th(2) – Application of Software configuration patterns: an industry case study

Julio Estela – Ministerio de Administraciones Públicas (Spain)

“ Configuration management is needed to achieve an effective Hardware and Software integration ”

TRACK · F Configuration Management 19th(3) – Configuration management for embedded systems: Software and the Hard Stuff

Pat Wegerson – Patrick Wegerson Consulting (USA)

Round Table

Willem Van Den Biggelaar, Yaron Tsubery,Jesús de la Maza and Michael Fagan

Round Table

Events

Azurmendi Enea ( Larrabetzu ) Txakoli Testing

Speakers Warming Up – 16th October 2007

Gastronomy Testers

First lunch at Euskalduna Jauregia 17th October 2007

The Sponsors

SQS and Innovalia Association

QA&TEST 2007 Sponsors

Best Paper

Congratulations !

Jan Peleska and Cornelia Zhalten

Closing

Closing

SEE YOU NEXT YEAROCTOBER 29 - 31, 2008

Bilbao / Spain

Thank you for coming / Gracias por venir / Eskerrik asko etortzeagatik