South East European Software Testing Conference (SEETEST 2015)

SEETEST 2015 Call for Papers has been extended!

Due to the big interest to the SEETEST 2015 Conference, the period for submitting papers has been extended up to September 15, 2015

SEETEST 2015 - South East European Software Testing Conference is a conference in the area of Software Testing and Software Quality Management in South East Europe and will take place in Sofia, Bulgaria, October 15-16, 2015.

South East European Testing Board together with Quality House Ltd. are the organizers of the SEETEST 2015 Conference.

Please submit a presentation proposal for the SEETEST 2015 Conference based on your experience and insight in testing.

The conference will be 1 day of tutorials (October 15), followed by 1 day of keynotes, presentations (October 16) and exhibition.

SEETEST 2015 Conference aims to cover the following topics:

1.  Software Testing in General;

2.  Test Design & Techniques;

3.  Test Management;

4.  Risk-based Testing;

5.  Test Process Improvement;

6.  Performance Testing;

7.  Agile Testing;

8.  Security Testing;

9.  Mobile Testing;

10. Test Automation;

Important Dates:

Submission of papers until: September 15, 2015

Notification of acceptance: September 17, 2015

Submission of final paper: September 20, 2015

Submission of paper slides: September 20, 2015

Tutorials: October 15, 2015

Presentations: October 16, 2015

Speaker benefits:

In case we accept your submission, we will provide you with the following:

1. Free registration for the SEETEST conference (October, 15-16), including lunches

2. Full set of conference materials

3. Free participation in the social event

Expectations:

• Submission and presentation must be in English language;
• Track presentation is 40 min, including time for questions.
• Submit your paper according to the template which we provide at our website
• Forward the conference program and actively promote the conference to your contacts.
• We encourage technical papers (5-10 pages) to provide conference attendees with additional details, supporting material.
• We intend to publish some of the presentations on the SEETEST online at the web site and need your confirmation that we are allowed to do so.

Submission Details:

Please submit your through the submission system at

http://pc.seetest.org/openconf.php

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For registering before September 15th you will get 20% Early Bird discount!

Please find the registration form on the SEETEST website – www.seetest.org.

Make sure to take advantage of our discounts*:

- 10% discount for groups of 5 or more

- 10% discount for students

- 10% discount for members of BASSCOM, BAIT, ANIS, MASIT, SJSI, testerzy.pl, TestRSClub, VOICT

- 10% discount for ISTQB partners.

* Please bear in mind that discounts do not count additive.

It would be a great pleasure to welcome you as a guest at SEETEST 2015 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Diana Ivanova at divanova@seetb.org

For further information please visit our website at www.seetest.org.

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Lee Copeland, Software Quality Engineering, USA

Exploratory Testing Explained

Exploratory testing is testing technique that emphasizes the freedom and responsibility of the tester to continually optimize the value of his work. It is the process of three mutually supportive activities performed simultaneously—learning, test design, and test execution. The tester designs and executes tests while exploring the product. With skill and practice, exploratory testers typically uncover considerably more defects than when the same amount of effort is spent in scripted testing. In exploratory testing, the tester controls the design of test cases as they are performed rather than days, weeks, or even months before. In addition, the information the tester gains from executing a set of tests then guides him in designing and executing the next set of tests. Lee Copeland describes specific heuristics and techniques of exploratory testing to help you get the most from this highly productive approach.

Clive Bates, Experimentus, UK

How good is your testing? Check it out with TMMi

How do you know whether the testing in your organisation is good enough for the applications you test? How do you really know what is working well and what you need to do to get even better?

In this tutorial Clive will look at why organisations firstly need to consider improving the testing they do across the whole lifecycle whether they use the more traditional V-model or Agile approaches. Secondly, before undertaking any improvements how do you understand exactly what the current state of your organisation’s testing processes are? To help you with that understanding it is important to gauge your organisation against an internationally recognised model. TMMi is the most independent testing focused model that will give you the detailed understanding and knowledge about where you are now against specific maturity levels. The result of a TMMi assessment will ensure you have a clear understanding of your organisations current strengths, and just as important what areas you need to focus on improving.

In the tutorial Clive will take you through the model in enough detail to help you consider where your organisation could be against TMMi, and how to score yourselves supported by appropriate exercises. You will then be able to have a view of your own organisations maturity.

Olivier Denoo, Ps_Testware, Belgium

Should I weigh or should I go – do’s and don’ts about metrics

This half-day tutorial is targeting a broad audience of testers and test managers (whatever their former experience with projects and metrics). It is pinpointing, in a humorous way, lots of common (mis) behaviors and issues that the Test Management community has to face regarding the evaluation and measurement of the test process.

By attending this tutorial, you’ll see how metrics can be organized within a structured framework starting from requirements to defects, with a serious twist of progress and performance measurements. You will also discover how sometimes so-called obvious metrics can be misleading (and lead to wrong conclusions or lead to make wrong decisions) or misused (by management or testers). Whatever, there’s no hope without metrics as they are essential for us to know and understand what is going on (another good reason to choose and implement the right ones in a right way). Last but not least, this tutorial is totally tool-independent – it’s not about tool at all, but about strategy and methodology and return of experience in the wide.

Erik van Veenendaal, Improve Quality Services BV, Bonaire

Practical Risk-based Testing

Although most projects implicitly use some kind of risk-based approach for prioritizing testing activities, critical testing decisions should be based on a thorough product risk assessment process with key business drivers as the foundation. PRISMA (PRoduct RISk MAnagement), a practical method for performing systematic product risk assessments is presented. It is explained how to carry out risk identification and enalyzes, and how to use the outcome to select the best test approach. Learn how to use PRISMA in both traditional and agile projects, including creating an agile sprint test plan. Practical experiences are shared, problems overcome and results observed employing product risk assessments. Learn how to optimize your test effort by including product risk assessment in your testing practices. Develop a rigorous approach to inform project stakeholders about important testing decisions and provide clear visibility on product risk status.

Yaron Tsubery, Enghouse Interactive, Israel

Load & Performance – Practical Principles

Load & performance, belong to the top ten list of most freighting words in software development especially when it comes to the point of sale of your product at times of extremely competitive market. One word that is really frightening is the word … STRESS (doesn’t it give you the shivers just hearing it?). This tutorial will get you acquainted with the terms in subject and will donate to your understanding of the whole desired process stages from Sales meetings through Design and architecture, Ways of implementation, Testing aspects and finally presenting results and reports. A part of the process you’ll be advised about ways to be aligned with your customer’s expectations, means that you’ll need to know and control the required lingo of the load profession, whether you’re sales person, developer or test engineer (e.g. ‘usage & traffic model’, ‘throughput’ etc’). You’ll be exposed to design and architecture solutions among with special guidelines for code writing and implementation. The load test engineers will understand better what the required information to initiate load & performance is; what to search for and how to improve their testing coverage, how & what to report and present in order to give an added value to those who make the decisions.
This practice is focused on projects of complex systems, delivered to telecommunication companies under restricted rules and stiff exit criteria elements, among tense delivery timelines.

Klaus Olsen, Softwaretest.dk, Denmark

Using Scrum Methods as a Test Manager
This tutorial will learn you how to apply methods from SCRUM when you work as a Test Manager. Especially if you are not working in a SCRUM team or an Agile project, there will be more to learn, but members of Agile development team can also participate.

We will cover how Stand-Up meetings are very useful for you as a Test Manager, to stay on top of everything which is going on within your team. How you can use Burndown charters to communicate progress, and how Poker Planning Cards are very useful when you need to estimated the amount of work you have within your team.

The tutorial will also cover techniques to prioritise the task to cover as part of your Test Management, using a Backlog as another artefact from SCRUM.