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Sogeti Netherlands BV
Leo van der Aalst has almost twenty years experience with structured
testing in all of its aspects: strategy, co-ordination, preparation, realization,
consulting, and innovation. One of his activities was to develop a generic model
for implementing test service centers at customer locations. This model has been
used several times since by large companies in The Netherlands and Germany. He was
co-responsible for the implementation of a ‘test factory’. In this test
factory several test assignments are carried out for multiple clients (test outsourcing).
Leo is co-author of TMap® Next, a regular speaker at conferences and
author of several articles (i.e. risk based testing, benefits of a test service
centre).
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Neuri Ltd.
Gojko Adzic runs Neuri Ltd, a UK-based consultancy that helps
companies build better software by introducing agile practices and tools and improving
communication between software teams, stakeholders, and clients. During the last
nine years, Gojko has worked with a wide variety of technologies and platforms,
ranging from Python utilities for mobile devices to .NET/J2EE trading platforms
and Oracle-centric transaction processing systems. His programming story so far
includes equity and energy trading, mobile positioning, e-commerce, betting and
gaming, and complex configuration management. Read Gojko's opinions on software
development at
http://gojko.net.
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IBM Rational
Danny Allen came to Rational through the acquisition of Watchfire.
Danny brings with him several years of business and technology-related experience
including penetration testing and internal system remediation for one of Canada's
biggest universities. In his role as a security researcher he is closely involved
with enterprise global customer deployments, researching and evaluating technologies,
and helping define and recommend strategic directions for Rational’s security
solutions. Danny has published several whitepapers and articles and participates
in industry working groups. He has also spoken at security events and is often called
upon by key media including Associated Press, Bloomberg, and the Wall Street Journal
for his opinions regarding web application security. Danny holds a Bachelor of Commerce
with a major in Information Systems from Carleton University.
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GrammaTech
Paul Anderson is VP of engineering at GrammaTech, a spin-off of
Cornell University that specializes in static analysis. He received his B.Sc. from
Kings College, University of London and his Ph.D. in computer science from City
University London. Paul manages GrammaTech’s engineering team and is the architect
of the company’s static-analysis tools. He has helped a wide variety of organizations,
including NASA, the FDA, the FAA, MITRE, Draper Laboratory, GE, Lockheed Martin,
and Boeing, apply automated code analysis to critical projects. Paul has worked
in the software industry for sixteen years, with most of his experience focused
on developing static-analysis, automated-testing, and program-transformation tools.
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Satisfice, Inc.
James Bach is founder and principal consultant of Satisfice, Inc.,
a software testing and quality assurance company. In the ‘80s, James cut his
teeth as a programmer, tester, and SQA manager in Silicon Valley in the world of
market-driven software development. For nearly ten years, he has traveled the world
teaching rapid software testing skills and serving as an expert witness on court
cases involving software testing. James is the author of Lessons Learned in Software
Testing and Secrets of a Buccaneer Scholar, which will be published
in spring 2009.
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Quardev, Inc.
Jon Bach is senior consultant and manager for corporate intellect
at Quardev, Inc., a Seattle outsource test lab where he manages testing projects
ranging from a few days to several months using Rapid Testing techniques. In 2000,
Jon and his brother James invented the “Session-Based Test Management”
technique for managing and measuring exploratory testing. In his thirteen years
of testing, Jon has been a test contractor, full-time test manager, and consultant
for companies such as Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard. He has written articles for
both Better Software and IEEE Computer magazines.
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Pre-conference Tutorial (MQ) -
The Craft of Bug Investigation
Monday, September 29, 2008 1:00 p.m.
Pre-conference Tutorial (TG) -
Session-Based Exploratory Testing
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 8:30 a.m.
Keynote Presentation - Telling Your Exploratory Testing Story
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 10:00 a.m.
Bonus Session - Testing Dialogues: Management issues
Thursday, October 2, 2008 9:45 a.m.
Concurrent Session (T17) -
Acceptable Acceptance Testing Thursday
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PerfTestPlus, Inc.
Scott Barber is the chief technologist of PerfTestPlus, executive
director of the Association for Software Testing, co-founder of the Workshop on
Performance and Reliability, and co-author of Performance Testing Guidance for Web
Applications. Scott thinks of himself as a tester and trainer of testers
who has a particular passion for performance testing software systems. He is an
international keynote speaker and author of over 100 articles on software testing.
He is a member of ACM, IEEE, American MENSA, the Context-Driven School of Software
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Bender RBT, Inc.
Richard Bender has been involved in test and evaluation since 1969.
He has authored and co-authored books and courses on quality assurance and test,
software development lifecycles, analysis and design, software maintenance, and
project management. Richard has worked with an international clientele in a wide
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Intuit
Nikhil Bhandari has more than eight rich years of experience in
software testing across diverse areas which includes embedded, wireless, database,
anti-virus, and finance. Currently Nikhil is working as Senior Software Engineer
at Intuit, Bangalore with the Small Business Web group. Before joining Intuit, he
worked with companies like Oracle, McAfee, and Satyam Computers. His area of expertise
includes developing testing strategy, test planning, and test automation frameworks.
He has utilized various testing tools and scripting languages for developing test
automation frameworks for both desktop and online applications on various platforms.
He holds an engineering degree from Government College of Engineering, Amravati,
M.S., India.
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QA Software Consultant/Trainer
Rex Black has been working in the computer industry for fifteen
years. The majority of that time has been spent in software testing, QA, and test
automation, with an emphasis on developing and implementing performance processes/methodology
for global performance services teams. Early in his career, Rex worked as a network
administrator, server engineer, I/T manager, and Web application developer. Much
of this time was spent was working as a contractor for corporations, universities,
and the US Air Force. Currently, Rex is conducting certified training courses for
HP of HP/Mercury software products, including QualityCenter, PerformanceCenter,
and LoadRunner. He is also available as a consultant for companies in the area of
performance testing and services.
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DevelopSense
Michael Bolton has been teaching software testing on five continents
for eight years. He is the co-author (with senior author James Bach) of Rapid Software
Testing, a course that presents a methodology and mindset for testing software expertly
in uncertain conditions and under extreme time pressure. Michael is a co-founder
of the Toronto Workshops on Software Testing. He has a regular column in Better
Software magazine, writes for Quality Software, and sporadically
produces his own newsletter. Michael lives in Toronto, Canada, with his wife and
two children. He can be reached at
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LogiGear Corporation
Hans Buwalda is an internationally recognized expert in test development
and testing technology management and a pioneer of keyword-driven test automation.
He was the first to present this approach, which is now widely used throughout the
testing industry. Originally from The Netherlands, Hans now lives and works in California
as CTO of LogiGear Corporation, directing the development of what has become the
successful Action Based Testing™ methodology for test automation and its supporting
TestArchitect™ toolset. Prior to joining LogiGear, Hans served as project
director at CMG (now Logica) in the Netherlands. He is co-author of Integrated Test
Design and Automation and a frequent speaker at international conferences. |
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Luxoft Canada
Justin Callison is head of Luxoft’s Performance Practice,
where he works to coordinate and bring the company’s capabilities to bear
on performance problems experienced by their customers. In his time working in software,
Justin has worn many hats: support specialist, QA tester, release engineer, configuration
manager, performance engineer, development manager, and technical consultant. Justin
has built and managed performance engineering departments, worked with industry
powerhouses (like Sun, Oracle, and IBM), and helped to create highly scalable distributed
systems. He is a certified Oracle DBA, has deep technical expertise, and enjoys
sharing his experience and learning from the experience of others.
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Quality Intelligence, Inc.
Fiona Charles is a test project manager and consultant. With thirty
years experience in software development and integration projects, she has managed
testing and consulted on testing on many projects for clients in retail, banking,
financial services, health care, and telecommunications. Fiona is on the board of
the Toronto Association for Systems and Software Quality, and is co-founder and
organizer of the Toronto Workshop for Software Testing, an annual invitational conference
for senior test practitioners. She is a frequent contributor to StickyMinds.com
and Better Software magazine, and presents regularly on test management
topics at conferences.
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PushToTest
Frank Cohen is the expert that information technology professionals
and enterprises go to when they need to understand and solve problems in complex
interoperating information systems. Frank is founder of PushToTest, the open-source
test automation solutions business, and maintainer of the popular TestMaker open-source
project. Frank is the author of several books, including FastSOA, the way to use
native XML technology to build scalable service oriented architecture, and Java
Testing and Design. For the past twenty-five years he has developed and marketed
some of the software industry's most successful products, including Norton Utilities
for the Macintosh, Stacker, and SoftWindows.
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The Hanover Group
Chris Condron with over two decades of software experience,
has designed and implemented large scale automation in the US, Asia, and Europe.
A regular speaker and instructor, he was the founder and principle consultant for
The Northern Group, a company for test automation and systems certification. His
current role at The Hanover Group, Inc. is defining and implementing the enterprise
quality strategy incorporating design for test, custom test facilities, and test tools,
to support the entire SDLC process. His designs focus on the organizational structure
and the quality attributes of the automation as much as the functional requirements of
the tools.
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Software Quality Engineering
Lee Copeland has more than thirty-five years of experience as
a consultant, instructor, author, and information systems professional. He has held
a number of technical and managerial positions with commercial and non-profit organizations
in the areas of applications development, software testing, and software development
process improvement. Lee frequently speaks at software conferences both in the US
and internationally and currently serves as Program Chair for the Better Software
Conference & EXPO, the STAR testing conferences, and Software Quality Engineering’s
new Agile Development Practices conference. Lee is the author of A Practitioner’s
Guide to Software Test Design, a compendium of the most effective methods
of test case design. |
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Software Quality Engineering
Rick Craig is a consultant, lecturer, author, and test manager,
who has led numerous teams of testers on both large and small projects. In his twenty-five
years of consulting worldwide, Rick has advised and supported a diverse group of
organizations on many testing and test management issues. From large insurance providers
and telecommunications companies to smaller software services companies, he has
mentored senior software managers and helped test teams improve their effectiveness.
Rick is co-author of Systematic Software Testing and a frequent
speaker at testing conferences, including every STAR conference since its inception.
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ePlan Services, Inc.
A tester on agile teams since 2000, Lisa Crispin currently works
as a tester at ePlan Services, Inc. developing Web-based financial applications
using XP and Scrum. She also helps teams and testers transition to agile, leads
tutorials and workshops on agile testing at conferences in the US and Europe, and
regularly contributes articles about agile testing to publications such as Better
Software magazine, IEEE Software, and Methods and Tools.
Lisa co-authored Testing Extreme Programming with Tip House and is co-authoring
Agile Testing: The Tester Role on an Agile Project (2009) with Janet Gregory.
For more about Lisa’s work, visit her Web sites: http://lisa.crispin.home.att.net
and
http://www.agiletester.ca.
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Macadamian Technologies, Inc.
Tanya Dumaresq has been providing Quality Assurance for various
companies like FileMaker, Fujitsu, Entrust, and March Networks, since 2001. At Macadamian
Technologies, she just finished leading a large project automating hundreds of test
cases for Nortel. Right now, she's ensuring the quality of two Nortel hardware devices,
which explains the nine phones on her desk. Her speaking credits include a STAREAST
Lightning Talk, in-house presentations, and training sessions for customers in three
countries. In her spare time she kicks butt on the Macadamian softball team and
plays a mean tennis game. She avoids the phone as much as possible.
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Microsoft
David Gorena Elizondo joined Microsoft as a software design engineer
in test just after graduating from college, in year 2004. Since then, he has become
an expert in the testing field not just by learning, researching and applying different
testing methodologies, but also by designing and developing testing tools that Microsoft
has shipped since then. David has contributed to shipping Visual Studio® 2005
Team System, Visual Studio® 2008 Team Test Edition, and is currently working
on a test case management and manual testing solution as part of a future release
of Visual Studio® Team Test Edition.
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Hewlett-Packard
A consultant at Hewlett-Packard, John Fodeh has several years
of experience in the field of software testing, quality management, and process
improvement. He has been a key person in a Software Process Improvement (SPI) project
establishing a metrics program to support the release decision basis. John is an
active member of a Danish special interest group in software testing. He has given
presentations at a number of seminars and conferences including STAREAST,
STARWEST, EuroSPI, EuroSTAR, and at the BCS' SIGIST. John holds a MSc.
from the Technical University of Denmark and a Practitioner certificate in software
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Electronic Arts
In her role as QA director, Jane Fraser oversees the QA Department
for Pogo, which includes Pogo.com, Club Pogo and the downloadable business. She
has successfully launched over sixty games in six territories including Scrabble,
and Lottso. During her time with Pogo, Jane has provided leadership, established
testing process and managed a team of testers, which she has grown from six employees
to a robust team of sixty-eight. As an industry veteran with over fourteen years
experience, Jane joined Pogo in 2004. Prior to joining Pogo, Jane worked for companies
including Corel, Vodaphone, and Bigwords.com and has brought her expertise from
the ecommerce and telecomm industry to the online gaming world. |
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Grove Consultants
With more than eighteen years of experience in the IT industry, Julie Gardiner
has spent time as an analyst programmer, Oracle DBA, and project manager. She has
first-hand experience as a test analyst, test team leader, test consultant, and
test manager. At Grove Consultants, Julie provides consultancy and training in all
aspects of testing, specializing in risk-based testing, agile testing, test management,
and people issues. She is a certified ScrumMaster. Julie won best presentation at
STAREAST 2007 and 2005; best presentation at BCS SIGiST 2005; and best
tutorial at EuroSTAR 2006. |
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Pre-conference Tutorial (MN) - Risk-Based Testing
Monday, September 29, 2008 1:00 p.m.
Pre-conference Tutorial (TB) - How to Build, Support, and Add Value
to Your Test Team Tuesday, September 30, 2008
8:30 a.m.
Keynote Presentation - Branch Out Using Classification Trees Thursday, October 2, 2008 8:30 a.m.
Concurrent Session (W4) - Five
Things Every Tester Must Do Wednesday, October
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Collis
Derk-Jan de Grood has broad, hands-on experience as a test engineer,
manager, and advisor in a large range of industries. As manager of a test department
he learned how to implement test methods the practical way. He is author of “TestGoal”
the result-driven test approach that helps testers demonstrate the added value of
their testing. Derk-Jan provides lectures and has written the first Dutch educational
book for teaching software testing at Dutch universities. He is known as a passionate,
inspiring speaker at major international testing conferences such as the STAR conferences
in the USA and Europe.
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iTKO LISA
Rajeev Gupta has over eleven years of experience architecting,
designing, and managing large-scale SOA and enterprise Java applications. A leader
of the Value Delivery practice at iTKO, he has mentored customer teams, and led
testing and virtualization strategy for fortune 500 clients like American Airlines,
Washington Mutual, i2, Time Warner, US Navy, and others. He is a passionate advocate
of and blogger on software quality and has spoken at conferences like STPcon and
Accenture TechDays. Prior to iTKO, he was a Principal Engineer at Sun Microsystems
where he managed SOA Quality Lifecycle strategy for critical applications.
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Net Objectives
With more than thirty years of experience developing software, Bob Hartman
has served in almost every role in the software industry including developer, tester,
documentation writer, trainer, project manager, business analyst, development manager,
and executive. He brings a logic-based approach to software development and quality.
Bob is known for having a unique talent for breaking software within the first ten
minutes of using it and brings that unique insight into the testing area. He is
a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) and Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP) who does training
and coaching in agile development. Bob teaches courses on Lean Agile Testing, Implementing
Scrum, and Lean Software Development among others. |
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Google
A senior test engineer at Google, Julian Harty finds ways to test
lots of fun products, including the mobile wireless software used by millions of
users worldwide. He’s been involved in software and online systems for more
than twenty years and enjoys working with others to find ways to solve testing challenges
productively. A presenter at both STAREAST and STARWEST, Julian
has been involved in international conferences and workshops on software testing.
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PerfTestPlus, Inc.
Dawn Haynes is a software quality specialist and trainer for Security
Innovation, Inc. She has more than eleven years of experience in manual, functional,
and performance testing of software systems on both Windows and UNIX platforms,
and more than nine years of technical training experience, including course development
and training management. Her career has included technical positions at companies
like Xerox, IBM Rational Software, SoftBridge Microsystems, Ipswitch, Inc., John
Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, and New England Medical Center. She is a
contributing author of the book Quality Web Systems: Performance, Security &
Usability. Dawn holds a BSBA in MIS from Northeastern University.
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Quality Tree Software, Inc.
In the software industry since 1984, Elisabeth Hendrickson has
held positions as a tester, programmer, test automation manager, quality engineering
director, and technical writer working for companies ranging from a twenty-person
startup to a large multi-national software vendor. In 2003, Elisabeth became involved
with the agile community, became a Certified ScrumMaster, and in 2006 joined the
board of directors of the Agile Alliance. Today, Elisabeth spends her time teaching,
speaking, writing, and working on Extreme Programming teams with test-infected programmers
who value her obsession with testing. |
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EDS-Global Testing Practice
With twenty-five years of involvement in the development of IT solutions and fifteen
years of testing experience, Susan Herrick is currently a testing
consultant and corporate leader of Testing Management and Consulting for the Global
Testing Capability at EDS. She provides expertise, leadership, and guidance in “architecting
testing solutions,” particularly in the areas of testing strategy development
and testing management and measurement. Susan has contributed to the development
of supporting processes, tools, and techniques in these key areas. |
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Augmentum
Wayne Hom has twenty years of experience inventing, developing,
and delivering commercial software technologies. Prior to his position within Augmentum,
he was VP of Solutions Engineering at Vitria, VP of User Experience at Zaplet, VP
& Chief Architect at Walker Interactive, Windows Architect, Cadence Design Systems
and Chief Architect, Symantec. Wayne has driven a diverse set of software products
including shrink wrap PC project management software, workstation based CAD tools,
mainframe based ERP systems, client/server based financial reporting systems, web
based collaboration systems, and vertical industry focused reporting and business
process management systems. |
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Cigital
A managing consultant at Cigital, Paco Hope has more than twelve
years of experience in software and operating system security. His areas of expertise
include software security policy, code analysis, host security, and PKI. Paco has
worked extensively with embedded systems in the gaming and mobile communications
industries and has served as a subject matter expert on issues of network security
standards in the financial industry. Paco is co-author of Mastering FreeBSD
and OpenBSD Security. Prior to joining Cigital, he served as director of
product development for Tovaris, Inc.
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ZenTEST Labs
Krishna Iyer, CEO of ZenTEST Labs, is a young entrepreneur, a prolific
speaker, and author. Before ZenTEST Labs, Krishna was a quality manager at Kanbay
where he worked with clients such as CitiFinancial, HSBC, IBM, and GE. Krishna shapes
ZenTEST Labs strategy using his financial background, improves ZenTEST Labs operations
using his rich IT and process consulting experience, and transforms its culture
using his expertise as a behavioral trainer. Krishna is a regular presenter at testing
and quality conferences including STARWEST and STAREAST.
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DiJohn Innovative Consulting, Inc.
Dion Johnson has more than thirteen years of experience providing
IT services to both government and private industry. He has spent much of his professional
career as a consultant, tasked with handling all aspects of the delivery of on-site
customer services, particularly in the areas of quality assurance, quality control,
software process improvement, and requirements analysis. Dion has delivered award-winning
and highly acclaimed presentations at many of the most prestigious industry conferences,
including STAREAST, STARWEST, and the Better Software Conference
& EXPO. Dion also writes for Better Software magazine and StickyMinds.com. |
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Skytap, Inc.
As director of product management, Ian Knox is responsible for
all aspects of Skytap’s product management and go-to-market strategy. Ian
joined Skytap from Microsoft Corporation where he was group product manager for
Microsoft Visual Studio®. In this role, Ian led the product management team
responsible for building a new $400M enterprise tools business in the Application
Lifecycle Management (ALM) category. Prior to Microsoft, Ian was a principal consultant
at PricewaterhouseCoopers where for seven years he worked on global software delivery
projects for Fortune 500 clients. |
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Kohl Concepts, Inc.
Jonathan Kohl is the founder and principal software testing consultant
with Kohl Concepts, Inc., based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. A noted testing thinker,
Jonathan is recognized as a leader in the exploratory testing community. He is a
popular author and speaker who believes that testing is a challenging intellectual
craft. Jonathan’s blog on software development and testing issues is one of
the most often read testing blogs in the industry. A regular contributor to Better
Software magazine, Jonathan was a guest Technical Editor for the March
2007 issue. |
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Crosscheck Networks
Jason Macy is the Chief Architect at Crosscheck Networks responsible
for all implementation and product strategy of the SOA testing, simulation, and
diagnotics product suites. Jason was previously the lead architect for Raytheon
and responsible for the testing and successful commissioning of the Air Traffic
Control system at Schipol Airport in Amsterdam, Holland. Jason has extensive experience
in SOA, XML, Web Services, and Networking and participates in industry standards
initiatives around SOA web services as well as training and education of SOA web
services testing and deployments. Jason has a Computer Science degree from Plattsburg
University and a Computer Engineering degree from Clarkson University. |
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Crosscheck Networks
Rizwan Mallal is the Director of Technology at Crosscheck Networks.
A founding member and chief security architect of Forum Systems, Rizwan is responsible
for all security related aspects of Forum’s technology. Previously, Rizwan
was the chief architect at Phobos where he was responsible for developing the industry's
first embedded SSL offloader. Before joining Phobos, he was a member of the core
engineering group at Raptor Systems, which pioneered the Firewall/VPN space in the
mid 1990’s. |
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testingReflections.com
Antony Marcano has more than thirteen years of experience in software
testing across numerous sectors, including mobile and fixed telecommunications,
banking, publishing, broadcasting, advertising, law, and education. Since 2000,
much of Antony's work has been on agile projects. Now, as a practitioner, mentor,
coach, and consultant, he helps teams realize the benefits associated with agile
development. Antony is creator and curator of testingReflections.com, one of the
most influential software testing sites on the Internet, and is a Technical Editor
for Better Software magazine.
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Software Craftsmanship, Inc.
Pete McBreen is the author of Software Craftsmanship and Questioning
Extreme Programming. He is an independent consultant who actually enjoys writing
and delivering software. Despite spending a lot of time writing, teaching and mentoring,
he does hands-on coding on a live project every year. Pete specializes in finding
creative solutions to problems that software developers face. After many years of
working on formal and informal process improvement initiatives, he took a sideways
look at the problem and realized, "Software development is meant to be fun.
If it isn't, the process is wrong." |
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Moser Consulting
A career tester, John McConda spent five years in the FDA-regulated
world creating an auditable testing process for a software vendor in Chicago, and
co-founded WREST, the Workshop on Regulated Software Testing (www.wrestworkshop.com). Currently
a Senior Consultant for Moser Consulting in Indianapolis, John provides CMMI-compliant
test leadership at a Fortune 100 company, as well as getting his hands dirty with
performance testing, automation, and exploratory testing. John also enjoys guest-lecturing
at local universities on software testing, teaching online courses for AST, and
serving as Director of Certifications for the Indianapolis Quality Assurance Association
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Microsoft Corporation
Grigori Melnik, PhD is a senior product planner in the patterns
& practices group at Microsoft. He researches, does strategic planning and manages
development of the Microsoft Enterprise Library—a collection of reusable and
extensible software components designed to assist programmers with common development
challenges. Grigori also leads the new patterns & practices guidance area focusing
on acceptance testing. Prior to that, Grigori was a researcher, software engineer,
and educator with over fifteen years of industrial/research experience. Grigori
is a regular contributor to software conferences around the world. His areas of
expertise include agile methods, empirical software engineering, software testing,
and software economics. Grigori is the Program Chair of the Agile 2008 conference
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Independent Consultant
A Calgary, Canada-based consultant and trainer, Gerard Meszaros
specializes in agile development processes. He has more than twenty-five years of
experience building and testing software intensive systems in both product development
and IT environments with technologies ranging from Java and .NET to Ruby and SAP’s
ABAP. Gerard coaches cross-functional teams as they learn how to better envision,
specify, develop, and test software systems using agile methods. He is a frequent
speaker at major international software conferences and is the author of xUnit Test
Patterns–Refactoring Test Code.
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Luxoft Canada
Stephen Michaud is the General Manager for Luxoft Canada, an outsourcing
company that consults on development and software quality. Stephen started his career
at Nortel Network as a verification engineer, team leader, and project manager.
Stephen then suffered severe software quality culture shock when he moved into tools
development at IBM Canada (formerly Rational Software) as a QA manager. Moving from
a market reality that demanded five nines of quality to the development tools industry
where rebooting a desktop daily is acceptable release criteria opened his eyes and
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ZenTEST Labs
Mukesh Mulchandani, CTO of ZenTEST Labs, is responsible for establishing
ZenTEST Labs as a key player in the software testing domain. Mukesh has eight years
of experience in the information technology industry, most of which has been in
the banking and financial services sector. Before joining ZenTEST Labs, Mukesh worked
with Kanbay, Capgemini Consulting and Fortune 500 clients, including Morgan Stanley
and Merrill Lynch. He has played a major role in designing functional automation
processes at the organizational level. Mukesh is a regular presenter at STARWEST
and STAREAST. |
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Software Quality Engineering
With more than thirty years experience in information technology, Dale Perry
has been a programmer/analyst, database administrator, project manager, development
manager, tester, and test manager. Dale’s project experience includes large
systems development and conversions, distributed systems, online applications, both
client/server and Web-based. He has been a professional instructor for more than
fifteen years and has presented at numerous industry conferences on development
and testing. With Software Quality Engineering for eleven years, Dale has specialized
in training and consulting on testing, inspections and reviews, and other testing
and quality related topics. |
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emprove
Erik Petersen is based in Melbourne, Australia. For most of his
career, he has been involved in custom software development, now focussing on testing
and quality. He has also trained and mentored many testers and developers. He is
a thought leader in agile and exploratory testing, and was one of the first people
to formally propose the idea of paired exploratory testing in 2001. Erik also has
extensive experience with test automation and testing tools. He is recognized for
his mix of practical knowledge and project experience (and excessive numbers of
slides!). Visit the Software Testing Spot at www.testingspot.net Contact Erik by email via [email protected] |
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POLTEQ IT Services BV
Martin Pol has played a significant role in helping to raise the
awareness and improve the performance of testing worldwide. Martin provides international
testing consulting services through POLTEQ IT Services BV. During recent years,
he has specialized in test outsourcing/offshoring, and he has developed an approach
to successfully deal with this phenomenon. His experiences in both India and China
are of great value. He has supported many organizations to define the test service
levels, to organize the prerequisites, and to implement test outsourcing management
and monitoring. |
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Rice Consulting Services, Inc.
Randall Rice is a leading author, speaker, and consultant in the
field of software testing and software quality. He has worked with major organizations
worldwide to improve the quality of their information systems and to optimize their
testing processes. Randall has more than thirty years of experience building and
testing mission-critical projects in a variety of environments and has authored
many training courses in software testing and software engineering. He is publisher
of The Software Quality Advisor newsletter and co-author (with William
E. Perry) of Surviving the Top Ten Challenges of Software Testing. Randall
serves on the board of directors of the American Software Testing Qualifications
Board (ASTQB). |
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Booz Allen Hamilton
Riley Rice is an Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton. He obtained
his MS in Computer Science from Arizona State University in 1986, and worked at
Bell Labs in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Security, publishing in the latter
field. He moved into Software Engineering Process and Measurement Analysis, applying
heuristic techniques to prediction and measurement. Riley has spent over twenty-one
years in this specialization, at Lexis-Nexis, Sybase, Sun Microsystems, California
State University, and others. Before this technical career, Riley earned a BA in
Psychology and was an instructor and public speaker, with advanced training in cross-cultural
communication. |
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Grove Consultants
With more than twenty-five years in the software industry, Lloyd Roden
has worked as a developer, managed an independent test group within a software house,
and joined Grove Consultants in 1999. Lloyd has been a speaker at STAREAST,
STARWEST, EuroSTAR, AsiaSTAR, Software Test Automation, Test Congress,
and Unicom conferences as well as Special Interest Groups in software testing in
several countries. He was program chair for both the tenth and eleventh EuroSTAR
conferences. |
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Microsoft
The director of test for Microsoft Office®, Tara Roth has sixteen
years of professional experience in the software industry. Prior to her current
role, she worked on Windows SharePoint Services®, Microsoft Project®, and
Microsoft FrontPage®. In 2005 Tara and a few other test leaders at Microsoft,
together with countless volunteers, pulled together “Test Day”—a
day filled with engaging speakers and a tradeshow-style event—which has continued
as an annual tradition at Microsoft. Tara is very passionate about testing and the
important role we all play in software quality.
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AmiBug.com, Inc.
Rob Sabourin has more than twenty-five years of management experience,
leading teams of software development professionals. A well-respected member of
the software engineering community, Rob has managed, trained, mentored, and coached
hundreds of top professionals in the field. He frequently speaks at conferences
and writes on software engineering, SQA, testing, management, and internationalization.
The author of I am a Bug!, the popular software testing children’s
book, Rob is an adjunct professor of Software Engineering at McGill University. |
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Pre-conference Tutorial (MK) - Using Visual Models for Test Case Design
Monday, September 29, 2008 8:30 a.m.
Pre-conference Tutorial (MP) -To Infinity and Beyond: Extreme Boundary
Testing Monday, September 29, 2008 1:00 p.m.
Pre-conference Tutorial (TE) - Just-In-Time Testing Tuesday, September 30, 2008 8:30 a.m.
Keynote Presentation - Testing Lessons from Springfield-Home
of the Simpsons Wednesday, October 1, 2008 8:45
a.m.
Bonus Session - Testing Dialogues: Management issues Thursday, October 2, 2008 9:45 a.m.
Concurrent Session (F1) - Toward an
Exploratory Testing Culture Friday, October 3,
2008 10:00 a.m.
Bonus Session - Getting Things Done—Putting the Lessons
of STARWEST 2008 to Work Friday, October
3, 2008 1:15 p.m. |
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Hewlett-Packard
Caleb Sima is HP Application Security Center's chief technologist.
He is the former co-founder and CTO of SPI Dynamics acquired by HP Software in August
2007. He is responsible for directing the strategic direction of the company's Web
application security solutions. Caleb is widely recognized as an expert in Web security,
penetration testing, and identifying emerging security threats. His pioneering efforts
and expertise in Web security have helped define the direction of the Web application
security industry. Caleb is a contributing author to various magazines and online
columns and is a co-author of the book, Hacking Exposed Web Applications: Web Security
Secrets & Solutions.
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Specialisterne
Thorkil Sonne is founder and director of business development of
Specialisterne and was formerly CTO of a Danish IT company. When Thorkil’s
son was diagnosed with autism, he started the first company in the world, Specialisterne,
where people with autism are given the understanding and support needed to perform
highly specialist tasks for the business sector on market terms. Thorkil’s
keynote presentation at EuroSTAR 2006 was elected ‘Best Keynote’. Thorkil
has presented papers at test conferences in Sweden, The Netherlands, Poland, England,
and Scotland. Specialisterne was awarded ‘Best Large Social Firm 2006’
by the European Association of Social Firms and has been referred to as ‘An
example for Europe’ by the EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs,
and Equal Opportunities. Specialisterne is featured as case study at Harvard Business
School’s CIO Management program. |
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Microsoft
Keith Stobie is a test architect at Microsoft where he plans, designs,
and reviews software architecture, process, and tests for Protocol Engineering.
Prior work included Live Search and Windows Communication Foundation. Over the past
twenty-five years he has focused on software testing distributed systems including
Tandem Fault Tolerant systems, Informix Parallel database, and transactional and
collaborative software at BEA Systems. Keith provides training on inspections and
quality process, and test training, strategy, methodology, design, tools, and automation.
Keith has mentored and coached hundreds of professionals in the field. He writes
and speaks to conferences around the world on software engineering, SQA, and testing. |
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POLTEQ IT Services BV
Ruud Teunissen, International Test Consultant at POLTEQ IT Services
BV, has performed several test functions in a large number of IT projects: tester,
test specialist, test consultant, and test manager. Together with Martin Pol, he
is co-author of several books on structured testing. His main focus at this moment
is test management and test process improvement. |
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Independent Consultant
Graham Thomas wrote his first computer program at college in 1978
and started working in IT in the early 1980s as a programmer, and discovered software
testing in the early 1990s. He has formal qualifications in programming, analysis
and design, project management, and software testing. He worked for a large consultancy,
several smaller management consultancies, and also for a systems house, as well
as various end users. He has a wide ranging experience of IT, development and software
testing, covering the public sector, retail, finance, banking insurance, and treasury.
Currently he works as either a program test manager or implementing testing change.
Prior to this he worked as a test manager.
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Ericsson AB
Thomas Thunell is currently working as a senior specialist in Test
Automation at Ericsson in Linköping (Sweden). He is the leader in this domain
at Mobile Radio Networks and is also working as a product manager for a Test Automation
Framework on an Ericsson-wide level. Thomas has several times made presentations
on Ericsson internal test conferences on the subject End-to-End Test Automation
and also Simulated Test Environments. He has been working at Ericsson since 1995. |
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Integrated Productivity Solutions, LLC
Ed Weller has more than forty years of experience in hardware,
test, software, systems, and software process engineering. His primary focus for
the past fifteen years has been on software process and metrics. Edward is the principal
of Integrated Productivity Solutions, LLC, a consulting company focused on improving
quality and productivity. Edward is an SEI-Certified SCAMPISM High Maturity Lead
Appraiser for SCAMPISM V1.2 and instructor for the Introduction to the CMMI®.
Edward has given nearly fifty presentations and tutorials at conferences. Edward
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Crosscheck Networks
Mamoon Yunus is an advisor to Crosscheck Networks and an industry
honored CTO and visionary in Web services-based technologies. As the founder of
Forum Systems, Mamoon pioneered Web Services Security Gateways & Firewalls.
He has spearheaded Forum's direction and strategy for six generations of award-winning
Web Services Security products. Prior to Forum Systems, Mamoon was a global systems
engineer for webMethods where he developed XML-based business integration and architecture
plans for Global 2000 companies. |
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