DATE: Thursday, November 16, 2006

**** PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN TIME AND PLACE *****

TIME: 7:30 a.m. Registration and hot buffet breakfast; 8:00 a.m.
Presentation begins;

10:00 a.m. Adjournment

PLACE: Travelodge Hotel & Convention Centre, Ottawa West, 1376 Carling
Avenue,

Greenery Room

PARKING: free

COST: $40 (includes 6% GST)

TO REGISTER: _http://www.ocri.ca/email_broadcasts/111606spin.html_

SPEAKER: Richard Bornet, Editor-in-Chief Quality Software and Testing
Magazine

 

ABSTRACT:

Developing and deploying high quality software that successfully addresses

real-world problems is not achieved through testing. Instead,
quality-focused

processes and activities must be integrated into all stages of the software

development lifecycle.

This presentation will discuss challenges in testing that come from
increasing

complexity, and decreasing test coverage, and best practices for defining,

measuring, managing, and improving software quality. Real-world examples

and solutions will be reviewed to illustrate the state-of-the-art of
manual and

automated testing technologies and how they can be deployed to maximize

impact on an organization.

In this session, you will learn:

- the new testing crisis - increasing complexity and decreasing test
coverage;

- the use of automation throughout the development lifecycle to improve
quality;

- the use of requirements based testing to increase test coverage;

- how to implement test automation so it works and is cost effective;

- partial vs. full automation: portability, maintainability and
reliability benefits;

- why test automation fails: The traps people fall into;

- why regression is only a small portion of a test automation practice; and

- the future of testing and test automation.

Who Should Attend:

This session will be of interest to those involved in any stage of the

software development lifecycle, with specific appeal to those involved

in QA testing and requirements management.

Participants will benefit from: a broader understanding of the problems

that are beginning to overwhelm testing today; a full understanding of test

automation, and how to use it for maximum benefit; and a look at the future

of testing and test automation.

 

SPEAKER'S BIO:

Richard Bornet is Editor-in-Chief of Quality Software and Testing

Magazine.

Richard has been in the software business for over 20 years. Over the

last ten, Richard has been running various testing departments and

creating innovative approaches to improve testing. He specializes in

test automation, and is the inventor of Scenario Tester, and co-inventor

of Ambiguity Checker software. Richard is also Vice President of the

Toronto Association of Systems and Software Quality (_www.tassq.org_
<outbind://11/www.tassq.org>),

and he is a regular speaker on the topic of the future of Quality

Assurance and Testing.