Sponsors & Partners

Leveraging a wealth of IT data to optimize and accelerate the planning, delivery, and support of applications, HP Application Lifecycle Management Solutions provide the insight and automation to drive the modern application lifecycle from idea to delivery faster without compromise. So you can deliver amazing apps across devices with quality, velocity and confidence. Hp.com/go/alm

Infosys is a global leader in consulting, technology, outsourcing and next-generation services. We enable clients, in more than 50 countries, to stay a step ahead of emerging business trends and outperform the competition. We help them transform and thrive in a changing world by co-creating breakthrough solutions that combine strategic insights and execution excellence. Visit infosys.com to see how Infosys (NYSE: INFY), with US$8.7 billion in annual revenues and 176,000+ employees, is helping enterprises renew themselves while also creating new avenues to generate value.

Mindtree [NSE: MINDTREE] delivers digital transformation and technology services from ideation to execution, enabling Global 2000 clients to outperform the competition. “Born digital,” Mindtree takes an agile, collaborative approach to creating customized solutions across the digital value chain. At the same time, our deep expertise in infrastructure and applications management helps optimize your IT into a strategic asset. Whether you need to differentiate your company, reinvent business functions or accelerate revenue growth, we can get you there. Visit mindtree.com to learn more.

Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that delivers real results to global business, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT,BPS,infrastructure, engineering and assurance services. This is delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model™, recognised as the benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the Tata group, India’s largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 319,000 of the world’s best-trained consultants in 46 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $15.5 billion for year ended March 31, 2015 and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India. For more information, visit us at tcs.com. To stay up-to-date on TCS news in North America, follow @TCS_NA. For TCS global news, follow @TCS_News.

Build complete, on-demand environments for application development on Windows, Linux, and any other technology stack—in minutes. Every software development team needs the infrastructure to design, develop, test, and deliver custom applications. Microsoft Azure gives you everything you need to provision and manage a complete development and test environment in the cloud. Our scalable, on-demand infrastructure both makes you more agile, and helps you deliver value faster and with higher quality. It gives you the flexibility to use the cloud on your terms, based on team needs and project requirements. Learn more at http://aka.ms/starwest2015/azuredevtest.

Perfecto Mobile, the world’s leader in mobile app quality, provides a hybrid cloud-based Continuous Quality Lab that enables mobile app development and testing teams to deliver better apps faster. The Continuous Quality Lab supports testing processes earlier and more often in the development cycle, giving way to faster feedback and improved time to market. Users can access an exhaustive selection of real mobile devices connected to live networks around the world and leverage them for testing and monitoring throughout the mobile application development lifecycle – from development, functional and performance testing to monitoring and support. perfectomobile.com

ROKITT™ solves complex business challenges in the digital and enterprise markets. We leverage our expertise and global partnerships in order to deliver best-in-class solutions driving bottom-line results. ROKITT Test Transformation is based on practical experience from leading test organizations in major enterprises. The solution consists of people, process, and technology as well as consulting designed to overcome the obstacles most enterprises face with testing today. We emphasize elimination of manual steps and automation of all critical processes. ROKITT’s key differentiator is that once we have implemented the transformation solution we enable the existing test organization to run and maintain it. rokittech.com

SOASTA is the leader in performance analytics. The SOASTA platform enables digital business owners to gain unprecedented and continuous performance insights into their real user experience on mobile and web devices – in real time, and at scale. With more than 10 million tests performed and more than 100 billion user experiences measured, SOASTA is the digital performance expert trusted by industry-leading companies including Experian, Hallmark, Intuit, Microsoft and Netflix. SOASTA is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. For more information about SOASTA, please visit soasta.com.

Telerik empowers its customers to create compelling app experiences across any screen. Our end-to-end platform uniquely combines industry-leading UI tools with cloud services to simplify the entire app development lifecycle. Telerik Test Studio and Telerik Mobile Testing are a set of test automation tools that help teams be more efficient in regression testing, improving test coverage and reducing the number of bugs that slip into production. They offer automation solutions for GUI, load and performance testing for desktop, web, hybrid and native apps running on any device (Android/ iOS/ Windows Phone). For additional information about Telerik Testing solutions, please visit telerik.com/test-studio or follow @TelerikTesting on Twitter.

TurnKey Solutions provides Scriptless automated testing tools and application frameworks for the HP ALM family of products. TurnKey’s industry-leading platform, cFactory™, turns QC and QTP/UFT into a fully scriptless, keyword-driven testing solution that auto-creates and auto-maintains your test automation. cFactory™ supports all application technologies that HP supports and much more, through its extensive add-in libraries. cFactory™ also includes dataDriver™, a comprehensive data management platform that allows test data to determine the flow of a test vs. a traditional script. Pre-packaged frameworks are also available for the major ERP/CRM systems including Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft, Temenos, and Guidewire. For more information, visit: turnkeysolutions.com.

ASTQB is the U.S. arm of the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB), which is in 70+ countries with more than 350,000 software testers certified worldwide. ISTQB develops the body of knowledge and glossary that a software tester should understand, and tests to it with an examination to grant the professional credential. ISTQB certification has multiple levels for a complete software testing career:  Foundation (CTFL), Foundation Agile Extension (CTFL-AT), Advanced (including Test Analyst, Test Manager and Technical Test Analyst), and Expert. The ISTQB body of knowledge syllabi and glossary are downloadable at no cost from our website, ASTQB.org, where full information about the program is easily accessed. ASTQB also offers Business Analyst certification through the International Qualification Board for Business Analysis (IQBBA).

BlazeMeter provides performance testing as a platform. The company's products enable users to run performance tests on mobile apps, websites, or APIs, with more than one million concurrent users on a self-service platform, generating traffic from public clouds or inside the firewall. BlazeMeter's agile platform is compatible with open source tools such as Apache JMeter and Selenium. BlazeMeter integrates into the continuous integration and delivery process, provides sophisticated results analysis and distributed testing across multiple geographic locations. More than 100,000 users, including leading brands such as Adobe, Disney, GAP, and Walmart, rely on BlazeMeter for their performance testing needs. blazemeter.com

Checkpoint Technologies, Inc., is a solutions provider specializing in all areas of IT Performance, Quality Assurance and software testing with a focus in functional, application security, mobile, and performance testing. We provide leading-edge HP Software solutions and expert services that optimize organizations' business technology and improve their software testing process. Our product and solutions capabilities include, but are not limited to, the following: ALM/Quality Center, UFT/Quick Test Professional, BPT, Performance Center, LoadRunner, HP Fortify Software Security Center / Infrastructure - Business Class Products (Server, Storage, etc.) - Enterprise Class Mission Critical Products (Server, Storage, and Networking). checkpointech.com

Dynatrace is the innovator behind the industry’s premier Digital Performance Platform, making real-time information about digital performance visible and actionable for everyone across business and IT. We help customers of all sizes see their applications and digital channels through the lens of their end users. More than 7,500 organizations use these insights to master complexity, gain operational agility and grow revenue by delivering amazing customer experiences. dynatrace.com

Informatica Corporation is the world’s number one independent provider of data integration software. Informatica provides solutions that drive the data-ready enterprise by keeping data clean, secure and connected. Organizations around the world rely on Informatica to realize their information potential and drive top business imperatives. Worldwide, over 5,800 enterprises depend on Informatica to fully leverage their information assets from devices to mobile to social to big data residing on-premise, in the Cloud and across social networks. For more information, call +1 650-385-5000 (1-800-653-3871 in the U.S.), or visit informatica.com.

Microexcel provide end-to-end QA services in ERP, Product and Web Application testing segments across various  domain, technologies and database leveraging their proven experience and expertise in functional and non-functional testing. Their perennial focus  is in delivering “Test Consulting” services that  include ” Testing Evaluation Services”, “Customized Test Lifecycle Process”,  “Test Automation roadmap”, “Designing & Maintaining Regression test suite” and measuring  performance parameters. They have experience in  setting-up, operating and managing Testing Centers of Excellence (TCoE). As a part of  Managed Testing Services they have dedicated QA Group which help’s customer’s formulate and establish a set of standardized QA processes. Microexcel offers various automated test solutions for mobile, web and Continuous integration builds with custom frameworks and industry best practices. microexcel.com

Since 1999, PureLoad software has been helping small and large companies worldwide - to verify and load-test their Internet-based systems & solutions. Whether you want to perform a functional test simulating one virtual user, or perform a load/stress test simulating millions of virtual users - PureLoad is the right software for you. PureLoad gives you proven and trusted results whether it is for testing web, video streaming, mobile applications, or areas like VoIP and Diameter. Easy to use, no programming experience is needed, and it is HW & OS independent.Most important, it has the best price/performance value of any testing software on the market. pureload.com

Ranorex offers a cost-effective and comprehensive UI test automation framework that simplifies both integration and acceptance testing for developers, and testing professionals, regardless of their programming or scripting experience. The Ranorex Automation Framework allows testing of many different application types including Web 2.0, Mobile Devices (Android, iOS), WPF, Flash/Flex, Silverlight, Qt, .NET and Java. ranorex.com

Sauce Labs provides a cloud-based platform for testing web and native/hybrid mobile applications. Founded by the original creator of Selenium, Sauce Labs helps companies accelerate software development cycles, improve application quality and deploy with confidence across 500+ browser / OS platforms, including Windows, Linux, iOS, Android & Mac OS X. Optimized for continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD), our highly scalable cloud is built to handle the most secure data from our customers, who range from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses, located across the globe. To date, more than 250 million tests have run on the Sauce Labs cloud. For more info or to sign up for a free account, visit saucelabs.com.

SQE Training is one of the world's largest providers of software improvement training. We provide the industry’s best resources to help organizations meet their software testing, development, management, and requirements training needs. SQE Training provides a wide selection of specialized courses, developed and dispensed by industry experts, that deliver field-proven techniques for producing high-quality software. sqetraining.com

tap|QA is a consulting services firm 100% focused on Quality.  Our consultants’ wide range of experience includes Business Analysis, Quality Assurance & Testing within a vast array of industries.  Our Quality focused solutions enable IT Organizations to meet the growing demands of their business partners.  Our solutions include:
     • Strategic Quality - Strategic Consulting and Business Driven Quality® to Optimize  IT Capabilities, Technology & Organizational structure. 
     • tap|Lakeshore - cost-competitive with offshore, but embedded locally with your team, or at our site in Minneapolis.
     • QA/QC/BA Project Augmentation – From well-seasoned QA experts to bright, talented, and well-trained associate consultants, with delivery oversight included.

Headquartered just outside Fort Lauderdale, FL, Ultimate Software is a leading cloud provider of people management solutions for businesses across all industries. The vision is simple: to deliver the most flexible, comprehensive solution to manage HR, payroll, benefits, time, and talent management. Ultimate Software is #21 on FORTUNE’s 2015 list of 100 Best Companies to Work For. At Ultimate, your voice matters – we want to hear and implement your ideas, use cutting edge technologies, and continuously improve our cloud-based application. ultimatesoftware.com

Better Software magazine is the quarterly, online magazine for software professionals who care about quality. Each issue brings you relevant, timely information to help you build better software. Better Software magazine delivers in-depth articles on testing, project management, development, configuration management, DevOps, agile, mobile, and cloud technologies. In each issue you'll find solutions to common problems, coverage on emerging technologies, and more. It’s a steady stream of ideas for software professionals focused on quality. BetterSoftware.com

CMCrossroads is where configuration management and development professionals go for answers on SCM, ALM, change management, DevOps, tools, and more. CMCrossroads delivers weekly articles from industry experts, as well as interviews with thought leaders, searchable tools and books guides, Q&A, the complete Better Software magazine archive, and access to past conference presentations CMCrossroads.com.

IT Central Station is a dynamic real-time platform that offers user information that is current, objective, and relevant. IT Central Station is revolutionizing the enterprise technology buying process through the power of crowdsourced knowledge, online product reviews and social networking. Enterprise technology professionals use IT Central Station to access and share unbiased product  information and tap into a community of other real users. The Wall Street Journal has called us “The Yelp of Enterprise Technology.” itcentralstation.com 

Methods and Tools is a free e-magazine providing practical expert knowledge for software development professionals. Methods & Tools gives software development ideas more than one page to express themselves and covers all aspects of software engineering: software project planning and tracking, Agile and Lean frameworks and techniques like Scrum or Kanban, software testing and quality assurance, business analysis and requirements management, software architecture, software process improvement, user interface and UX, continuous integration and delivery, software developer psychology and management, metrics, software design, software tools presentations, etc. methodsandtools.com