PSQT 2006 West Conference Schedule

Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday

PSQT Conference Sessions

7:00 - 8:00	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 - 8:15	Opening Remarks by Conference Chair Dr. Magdy Hanna, International Institute of Software Testing
8:15 - 9:15	Keynote: Patrick Towsend Cheif Quality Officer, UICI Leadership, Quality and Democracy?
	Advanced Topics	Test Process	Project Management	Customer Requirements	Test Automation
9:30-10:30		Tracking Bugs Requires Process Jolene Nerdahl Test Manager and Senior Methods & Tools Practitioner BlueCross BlueShield of MN	Software Quality Composite Metric Evelyn F. Moritz Consulting Member of Technical Staff AVAYA	Unleash the User - The Power of Usability Testing Sloban Dumuzlski Software Test Engineering Manager Boston Scientific	Defining Test Data and Data Centric Application Testing Chris Hetzler Software Development Engineer in Test Microsoft
10:45-11:45	High Level Petri Net Approach to Model Based Testing Marco Piumatti Software Development Lead	Choosing the Right Test Strategy for Effective Testing Subbarao Jagannatha Principal Quality Assurance Engineer Openwave Systems	Quality Project Management Angela Carraway Director of QA/PMO Advance Auto Parts	FEATURE PRESENTATION Avoid Creep-Discover the REAL Requirements Robin Goldsmith J.D. Go Pro Management, Inc.	Metrics for Automation Richard L. Wagner Manager, Software Test Automation Catalina Marketing Corp.
11:45-12:30	Visit Exhibit/Vendor Presentations
12:30-1:30	Lunch/Discussion Groups
	Advanced Topics	Test Process	Project Management	Customer Requirements	Test Automation
1:30-2:30	Through The Glass Box - A Tester's Guide To Static Analysis Andy Roth Software Quality Engineer, IBM	Ever-changing Test Process: Case Study of a Large Scale Application Testing Alexei Saveliev Senior Software Test Engineer, Test and Integration Department, Comcast Media Centers	Saving a Runaway Project: A Case Study for Project Turnaround Yury Makedonov, Ph.D. Senior Technical Consultant, CGI	Introduction to Requirements Management Barry Schrimsher Principal, GlenTalon Consulting, Inc.	FEATURE PRESENTATION Testing in .NET: What you Need to Know about Integrating Testing & Development Mary Romero Sweeney Independent Consultant
2:45-3:45	FEATURE PRESENTATION The Role of Test Professionals in Agile Projects Alan Koch AKS Process, Inc.	Test Metrics: A Practical Approach to Tracking & Interpretation Shaun Bradshaw Director of Quality Solutions, Questcon Technologies	Upsetting Project Managers and Pleasing Project Sponsors: A Practical Approach Using Earned Value to Judge Project Schedule and Budget Compliance Brian M. Waddoups Manager of Quality Assurance, Sprint Nextel Corporation	Model-Based Requirement Management Dr. Magdy Hanna International Institute for Software Testing	Don't be a Statistic Raul DeLeon Managing Director Utopia Solutions
4:00-5:00	Linda Hayes, CTO, Worksoft, Inc. Creating Agility and Effectiveness in Software Testing: Agile Functional Test Automation
5:00-6:30	Conference Reception

Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday

PSQT Conference Sessions

Monday | Tuesday | 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 W6.)

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

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

Monday | Tuesday | 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 (H1 through H6.)

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

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

Monday | Tuesday | 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 (F1 through F6.)

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

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