PSQT
2008 West
May 5-9, 2008
Las Vegas, NV

PSQT 2008 West Complete Conference Schedule

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Monday, May 5th, 2008

You must specify which tutorial you wish to attend (M1 through M7)

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

  CSTP Required Course   CTM Required Course   Elective Courses for CSTP or CTM

M1 Principles of Software Testing
(CSTP #1) or (CTM Elective)
Dr. Magdy Hanna
M3 Risk-Based Test Management
(CSTP #3) or (CTM Elective)
Marnie Hutcheson
M4 Test Process Management
(CTM #1 or CSTP Elective)
Judy McKay
M5 Test Process Measurements and Improvement
(CTM #3) or (CSTP Elective)
Alfred Sorkowitz
M6 Essentials of Graphical User Interface Testing
(CSTP or CTM Elective)
Jay Ruuska

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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

You must specify which tutorial you wish to attend (T1 through T7)

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

  CSTP Required Course   CTM Required Course   Elective Courses for CSTP or CTM

T1 Effective Test Design
(CSTP #2) or (CTM Elective)
Dr. Magdy Hanna
T2 Effective Test Management
(CSTP #3) or (CTM Elective)
Judy McKay
T3 Identifying and Executing the Most Important Tests
(CSTP #4 or CTM Elective)
Marnie Hutcheson
T4 Managing the Test Project
(CTM #2 or CSTP Elective)
Robin Goldsmith
T5 Building and Managing a Test Team
(CTM #4 or CSTP Elective)
Joe Raassi
T6 Database Testing: Structured Query Language (SQL) for Test Professionals (CSTP or CTM Elective) Dr. Timothy Korson
T7 Testing Web and eCommerce Applications
(CSTP or CTM Elective)
Michael Lawler

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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

PSQT Conference Sessions

7:00 to
8:00
Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 to
8:15
Opening Remarks by Conference Chair
Dr. Magdy Hanna, International Institute for Software Testing
8:15 to 9:15 Keynote:
Eric Newcomer, Chief Technology Officer at IONA
Meeting New Challenges in Testing Service Oriented Architectures
Test Process
Performance Testing
Test Management
Quality Management
Quality Management
Test Automation
9:30
to
10:30
GRIT: A Practical experience of the independent software test group at C.E.S.A.R.
Luiz Carlos da Silva, Karina Karla de Oliveira Gomes & Melissa Barbosa Pontes
C.E.S.A.R.
Use Case Driven Performance Testing – A Practical Approach to Engineering Level Testing
Rob Carrick
Fiserv
Characteristics of an Effective Test Group
Joe Levens
Wolters Kluwer
FEATURE PRESENTATION
Some of the ‘Not-So-Visible’ Traits of Effective SQA Organizations

Joe Raassi
OnTest
Revitalizing Software Inspections
Roger Stewart & Lew Priven
Stewart-Priven Group
SOA Test Management and Automation
Deepak Kumar
Capgemini FSSBU, US
10:45
to
11:45
Agile Teams Require Agile QA: How to make it Work
Tracy Beeson &
Kealy Opelt
Menlo Innovations LLC
Optimizing Performance Testing Through Innovative Strategies
Niraj Visvanathan
Wipro Technologies
FEATURE PRESENTATION
Tips & Templates for Test Managers

Tony Simms
Roque Consulting
Agile Meets eCommerce: Controlling eChaos
Tony Brill
ChannelAdvisor
Mend the Gap: Using Defect Reviews to Identify Gaps in Process
Colleen Voelschow
ProtoTest
Automated Software Testing 101
Ken White
Advanced Solutions International, Inc.
11:45
to
12:15
Visit Exhibit/Vendor Presentations
12:15
to
1:15
Lunch/Discussion Groups
Test Process
Performance Testing
Test Management
Quality Management
Quality Management
Web and SOA
1:15
to
2:15
The Anatomy of a Test Strategy
Tony Simms
Roque Consulting
"The Component-Based Testing Approach" or "How to Build a Better Test Case"
Jeff Roberts
Convergys Corporation
Creating and Implementing Efficiencies in your QA Team
Melissa Tondi
eCollege
FEATURE PRESENTATION
From Ad hoc Testing to Quality Assurance using Process as the Guide

Greg Stone
IFMC
Continuous Software Process Improvement using Microsoft Office Based Tools for Centralized Web Based SDLC Deployment and Project Management
Mark Snedecor
Ajilon Consulting
Why Performance Testing SOA Based Applications Need a Non-traditional Approach?
Venkataraghavan Seshadri
Infosys Technologies Ltd.
2:30
to
3:30
Establishing a Quality Assurance Regression Test Bed
Donald Mark Haynes
Synova Inc
Answering Challenge of End-to-End Testing in Complex Programs with Multi-Component Architectures
Alex Saveliev &
Benedetto Pietrabella &
Julie Regalado
Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.
When NOT to stop testing!
Nikhil Gupta &
Subrahmanya Manjunath
Wipro Technologies
FEATURE PRESENTATION
Software Quality Metrics for Critical Decision Making

Patrick Freeman
PDR – Professional Data Resources, Inc.
Designing End to End Test Management System
Pradeep Verma & Sandeep Grover
Adobe Systems Inc.
FEATURE PRESENTATION
Ensuring Quality in Web Services

Chris Hetzler
Appolis Mobile Business Solutions
3:45
to
4:45
Test Driven Quality
Bill Miller
Yuwantitwhen.com
FEATURE PRESENTATION
Testing Dashboards in 2008: Publish Status and Predict Outcome Automatically

Marnie Hutcheson
iDeva
How to Keep & Motivate your QA Team without Increasing your Budget
Marina Gil-Santamaria
Empirix
FEATURE PRESENTATION
Grabbing Authority

Thomas Cutting, PMP
Cutting’s Edge
Triage – Determining What to Fix and When to Fix It
Dave Whalen
Whalen Technologies
Testing E-Commerce Web Applications
Sankara Narayanan
Adobe Systems
5:00
to
6:00
Closing Keynote:
Billy Hoffman, Lead Security Researcher, HP Software
Implementing Application Security: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach

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Thursday, May 8th, 2007

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

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

  CSTP Required Course   CTM Required Course   Elective Courses for CSTP or CTM

H1 Requirement-Based Testing
(CSTP #5) or (CTM Elective)
Dr. Magdy Hanna
H2 Developing Reusable Test Designs
(CSTP #2) or (CTM Elective)
Robin Goldsmith
H3 Functional Test Automation Fundamentals
(CSTP #6 or CTM Elective)
Michael Lawler
H4 Risk Based Testing: Analysis and Strategy Development
(CTM #5 or CSTP Elective)
Clyneice Chaney
H5 Project Management for QA Professionals
(CSTP or CTM Elective)
Barbara Ainsworth
H6 Testing in Incremental and Highly Iterative Software Projects
(CSTP or CTM Elective)
Dr. Timothy Korson

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Friday, May 9th, 2008

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

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

  CSTP Required Course   CTM Required Course   Elective Courses for CSTP or CTM

F1 Software Inspections and Reviews for QA Professionals
(CSTP #7) or (CTM Elective)
Barbara Ainsworth
F2 Discovering and Testing Requirements with Use Cases
(CSTP #5 or CTM Elective)
Clyneice Chaney
F3 Software Quality Assurance Methods and Techniques
(CTM #7or CSTP Elective)
Barbara Patterson
F4 Test Automation Strategies and Architectures
(CTM #6) or (CSTP Elective)
Michael Lawler
F6 Programming Concepts for Test and QA Professionals
(CSTP or CTM Elective)
Dr. Timothy Korson

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