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Venue

The Conference Centre and Concert Hall. Euskalduna Jauregia. Bilbao / Spain It received the Apex Award for Best Convention Centre of the World 2003

Euskalduna Jauregia Bilbao One of the most outstanding contemporary works carried out by Spanish architects

Opening

Opening 17 th Joseba Jauregizar and Jesús de la Maza– Innovalia (ES)

Tutorials

Tutorial 1 17 th – Software development and test measurements and metrics Doron Cherkovsky – Israel Aircraft Industries (Israel) “ Software people have ambivalent relationship with metrics, they distrust anything that looks like measurement ”

Tutorial 2 17 th – Model-Based Testing Paul Jorgensen – Grand Valley State University (USA) “ Any model is a compromise with the real world ”

Keynotes

Keynote 17 th – Virtually defect-free Software in less time Michael Fagan – Michael Fagan Associates (USA) “ Be creative; make defects but have a a method to detect them as soon as possible ”

Keynote 18 th – Psychology behind Test Management Yaron Tsubery – Comverse (Israel) “ The control of your colleague’s trust and confidence is in your hands ”

Keynote 19 th – Controlling project performance by using a defect model Ben Linders – Ericsson · Telecommunicatie, B. V (The Netherlands) “ Quality has business value ”

Tracks

TRACK · A V&V Strategies 17 th (1) – Demonstrating Genetic Algorithm: optimizing project duration while ensuring System Quality Avner Engel – Israel Aerospace Industries (Israel) “ Fitness measure” determines which solutions are better than others

TRACK · A V&V Strategies 17 th (2) – Model of measurement and analysis for processes of Embedded Software development Cláudia Elias – Quality Software (Brasil) “ Measurements help us to identify strong and weak points of our processes ”

TRACK · B Testing Reusability 18 th (1) – Reusability & modular test cases design as used in Embedded and financial projects Ori Avihail – TACT Ltd. , Project Management division (Israel) “ Small and modular components allows you to use automatic permutations of test scripts ”

TRACK · C QA Management for Embedded Systems 18 th (1) – Pitfalls of system integration Jan van Moll – Sioux Embedded Systems BV (The Netherlands) “ If there is no RISK, there is no TEST ”

TRACK · C QA Management for Embedded Systems 18 th (2) – Integrated automated test case generation and static analysis Jan Peleska – University of Bremen (Germany) Cornelia Zhalten – Verified Systems International Gmb. H (Germany) “ Interesting test cases are often hidden in a huge amount of data, automatically genarated by tools ”

TRACK · C QA Management for Embedded Systems 18 th (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) It’s important to consider scenarios that are executed more frequentl

TRACK · C QA Management for Embedded Systems 18 th (4) – Test First Practices for safety critical development: An Agile approach Brian Shoemaker – Shoe. Bar Associates (USA) “ Safety doesn’t reside in any distinct function but in the entire System

TRACK · C QA Management for Embedded Systems 18 th (5) – Risk based dynamic regression Test Model Ruku Tekchandani – Intel (USA) “ Risk based regression testing prioritizes tests based in risk info and finds defects earlier in the process ”

TRACK · D Testing Techniques 18 th (1) – Exploratory Testing, first time right Derk-Jan De Grood – Collis (The Netherlands) is an agile and close collaboration between moderators, testers and s perts that make all agreed decisions based on what they know at the t

TRACK · D Testing Techniques 18 th (2) – Advanced Test-Driven Development Peter Zimmerer – The Siemens (Germany) “ The right project specific balance is the key for cost efficiency ”

TRACK · D Testing Techniques 18 th (3) – Robustness Testing and fuzzing introduction Antti Ihalainen – Codenomicon Ltd. (Finland) “ The programmers normally say “wow” when the system works, but w testers normally say “wow” when the system crashes ”

TRACK · D Testing Techniques 18 th (4) – Testing and monitoring techniques. Applications to communication protocols for wireless networks Ana Cavalli – Institut National des Telecommunications (France) “ With good formal specifications, it is easier for making automated test generations ”

TRACK · D Testing Techniques 18 th (5) – Selective Homeworkless view Shmuel Ur – IBM Research Lab (Israel) “ If you are doing something that you know that is going to be reviewe you will do it in your best way ”

TRACK · E Metrics in testing and QA 19 th (1) – Using metrics to Improve Software Quality Anette Mirantes – Johns Hopkins University (USA) “ Software metrics help ensure that the software development efforts meet the goals and standars for software development in a organizatio

TRACK · E Metrics in testing and QA 19 th (2) – Metrics plan of Review’s effectiveness in the software life cycle Catherine Goutherot – NTE S. A. (Spain) “ 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 19 th (3) – 2 measure = 2 change René Van Eertwegh – Atos Origin Technical Automation (The Netherlands “ Start small, gain awareness, evaluate regularly, improve in small step Learn by doing, get your feet wet, automate it later, anticipate change

TRACK · F Configuration Management 19 th (1) – Configuration Management: Principles and Practises Anne Mette Jonassen Hass – Delta (Denmark) “ The only thing that does not change is that things change ”

TRACK · F Configuration Management 19 th (2) – Application of Software configuration patterns: an industry case study Julio Estela – Ministerio de Administraciones Públicas (Spain) “ Software Configuration Patterns envolve the whole code generated and also how people work ”

TRACK · F Configuration Management 19 th (3) – Configuration management for embedded systems: Software and the Hard Stuff Pat Wegerson – Patrick Wegerson Consulting (USA) “ Configuration management is needed to achieve an effective Hardware and Software integration ”

Round Table

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

Events

Speakers Warming Up – 16 th October 2007 Azurmendi Enea ( Larrabetzu ) Txakoli Testing

First lunch at Euskalduna Jauregia 17 th October 2007 Gastronomy Testers

The Sponsors

QA&TEST 2007 Sponsors SQS and Innovalia Association

Best Paper

Jan Peleska and Cornelia Zhalten Congratulations !

Closing

Closing

ank you for coming / Gracias por venir / Eskerrik asko etortzeag SEE YOU NEXT YEAR OCTOBER 29 - 31, 2008 Bilbao / Spain