PSQT 2005 North Conference Schedule

Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday

PSQT Conference Sessions

7:00 - 8:30	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:15 - 8:30	Opening Remarks Dr. Magdy Hanna, Conference Chair
8:30 - 9:45	Keynote Robert T. Bauer QA Insight, Inc. The Future of Software Testing
	Special Topics	Test Management	Test Process	Requirement Management/Use Case Testing	Performance Testing
10:00-11:00	Untying the Metrics Knot to Yield Customer Satisfaction Nidhi Srivastava Tata Consultancy Services	FEATURE PRESENTATION Risk Based Test Strategy Clyneice Chaney Project Performance Corp.	Synchronizing Software Testing with Agile Requirements Practices Jean McAuliffe Independent Consultant	Nail Requirements Flat: The Proper Care and Feeding of Business Analysis Richard Larson, PMP Watermark Learning	Performance Testing – Managing Expectations Fazly Alahi SHPS
11:00-12:00	Visit Exhibit/Vendor Presentations
12:00-1:00	Lunch/Discussion Groups
	Special Topics	Test Management	Test Process	Requirement Management/Use Case Testing	Test Automation
1:00-2:00	Toward a Unified Test Terminology: An Interactive Workshop Sponsored by International Institute for Software Testing	FEATURE PRESENTATION Test Manager Professionalism Robin Goldsmith, JD GoPro Management Inc.	Re-Engineering the Testing Organization: Getting Out of the Delta Into the Future! Clyneice Chaney Project Performance Corporation	Use Case Overview David Haas, PMP, FLMI, ACS Thrivent Financial	Solutions for Typical Automation Test Problems Amy Zhu Cyclades Corporation
2:15-3:15	FEATURE PRESENTATION Testing Web Services, XML and SOAP – What Happened to the User Interface? Tom Igielski The Thomas Consulting Group, Inc.	Knowledge Management in Distributed Testing Projects Rajesh Khanna, Srinath Vaidyanathan & Manisha Saboo Virtusa India Pvt Ltd.	Measurement and Analysis in Independent Testing Vedavalli R S Hewlett Packard	Bringing Test Forward: Appling Use Case Driven Testing in Agile Development Jean McAuliffe Independant Consultant	Automated Testing; Dade Behring's Successful Journey Bob Mende Systems Integration Group
3:30-4:30		Creating Defect Free Defect Report Nitin C. Shah Patni Computer Systems Ltd	Test Effectiveness and Test Efficiency – a Refined Approach K.Mahesh Kumar & Dr.Gargi Keeni Tata Consultancy Services	FEATURE PRESENTATION Use Cases from Testing Perspective Dr. Magdy Hanna International Institute for Software Testing
4:45-5:45	FEATURE PRESENTATION What Test-Driven Development Can Learn from Professional Testers Robin Goldsmith, JD GoPro Management Inc.	Outsource Testing: A Process for Success Gregory S. Wells Hewlett-Packard Corporation	Do It: An Introduction to Iterative Testing Laura Rose IBM/Rational Software Group	FEATURE PRESENTATION The 8 Best Practices for Gathering Great Requirements Dr. Rebecca Staton-Reinstein Advantage Leadership
5:45-6:45	Conference Reception

Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday

PSQT Conference Sessions

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7:00-8:30	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:15-8:30	Opening Remarks Dr. Magdy Hanna, Conference Chair
8:30-9:45	Keynote Elfriede Dustin Symantec Corporation Integrating your Test Team with the Development Team
	Quality Management 1	Test Management	Test Process	Test Measurements	Automation
10:00-11:00	Bug Guts: Dissecting Your Bug Tracking Database for Quality Metrics Matt Lowrie Anark Corporation	FEATURE PRESENTATION How to Make the Definitive Argument For Ship / No Ship Marnie Hutcheson Independent Consultant	CMM for the Squeamish: An Introduction for Test Organizations Laura Rose IBM/Rational Software Group	Key Measurements for Testers Pamela Perrott Construx Software	When to Conduct Feature Testing for System Software Xu Deng & Ronggang Yu Intel Corporation
11:00-12:00	Visit Exhibit/Vendor Presentations
12:00-1:00	Lunch/Discussion Groups
	Quality Management I	Quality Management II	Security Topics	Reviews & Inspections	Test Automation
1:00-2:00	Let's End the Defect Report-Fix-Check-Rework Cycle Richard Leavitt	Tracking Bugs Requires a Process Jolene Nerdahl BlueCross BlueShield of MN	FEATURE PRESENTATION Database Security - Is Your Data Vulnerable? Mary Romero Sweeney Independant Consultant	Implementing Inspections: A Case Study Pamela Perrott Construx Software	Getting to the Heart of the Problem: Root Cause Analysis in Web Applications Steven Mostello RadView Software
2:15-3:15	Reducing Risk When You Can’t Do It All - An ERP Implementation Experience Randy Sauter University of St. Thomas	FEATURE PRESENTATION Software End Games: Learning to Finish What You’ve Started Robert Galen R.Galen Consulting Group, L.L.C.	The Web Application Security Crisis John Weinschenk Cenzic, Inc.	Reviews, Inspections & Walkthroughs: ‘One Size Does Not Fit All Akshay Gupta & Sudha Vajjhala Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd.	Test Automation and Outsourcing Smruti Pathak VERITAS Software India Pvt. Ltd.
3:30-4:30	Defining a Quality Quality Plan Pamela Perrott Construx Software	Effective Project Reporting: Developing a Customized Dashboard Reporting System Phillip Coolidge Olenick & Associates	FEATURE PRESENTATION Security Today – What You Need To Know Marnie Hutcheson Independent Consultant	The Value of Formal Inspections and Peer Reviews to the Test Process Rebecca Staton-Reinstein, Ph.D., CSQA Advantage Leadership, Inc.	Metrics for Automation Richard Wagner Catalina Marketing Corporation
4:45-5:45	Keynote Dr. Magdy Hanna International Institite for Software Testing Software Testing: From Art to Engineering

Wednesday | Thursday | Friday

Seven concurrent tutorials taught by nationally recognized quality experts. Each tutorial is one full day of an in-depth instruction in a specific software quality topic.

You must specify which tutorial you wish to attend (W1 through W7.)

Full-day Tutorials (8:30 - 4:30)

Tutorials marked with (CSTP) or (CTM) will count as one day of training towards the requirements for the Certified Software Testing Professional or Certified Test Manager and cover the Body of Knowledge areas as indicated.

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Seven concurrent tutorials taught by nationally recognized quality experts. Each tutorial is one full day of an in-depth instruction in a specific software quality topic.

You must specify which tutorial you wish to attend (H1 through H7.)

Full-day Tutorials (8:30 - 4:30)

Tutorials marked with (CSTP) or (CTM) will count as one day of training towards the requirements for the Certified Software Testing Professional or Certified Test Manager and cover the Body of Knowledge areas as indicated.

H1	Effective Test Design (CSTP #2)	Dr. Magdy Hanna
H2	Risk-Based Test Management (CSTP #3)	Marnie Hutcheson
H3	Managing the Test Process (CTM#1 or CSTP #3)	Leslie Segal
H4	Test Automation Strategies and Architectures (CTM #6)	Tom Igielski
H5	Database Testing: Structured Query Language (SQL) for Test Professionals (Elective)	Mary Romero-Sweeney
H6	Becoming an Effective Test Manager: An Interactive Workshop (Elective)	Robert Galen
H7	Testing in Incremental and Highly Iterative Software Projects (Elective)	Dr. Timothy Korson

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Seven concurrent tutorials taught by nationally recognized quality experts. Each tutorial is one full day of an in-depth instruction in a specific software quality topic.

You must specify which tutorial you wish to attend (F1 through F7.)

Full-day Tutorials (8:30 - 4:30)

Tutorials marked with (CSTP) or (CTM) will count as one day of training towards the requirements for the Certified Software Testing Professional or Certified Test Manager and cover the Body of Knowledge areas as indicated.

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