Leap into Testing for Tomorrow Our Keynote Speakers will be Rob Sabourin and local Agile & Testing expert Bob Galen. Rob has more than twenty-nine years of management experience, leading teams of software development professionals. A well-respected member of the software engineering community, Robert has managed, trained, mentored and coached thousands 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, Robert is an adjunct professor of Software Engineering at McGill University Bob Galen is an Agile Methodologist, Practitioner & Coach based in Cary, NC. In this role he helps guide companies and teams in their pragmatic adoption and organizational shift towards Scrum and other Agile methods and practices. He is currently the Director, Agile Practices for iContact, an email marketing SaaS provider. He is also Director of Agile Solutions at Zenergy Technologies where he applies his experience helping clients accelerate their agile adoption. Invited SpeakersKaren Johnson, another well-known testing consultant to present. Karen recently was a Keynote speaker at the STANZ Conference and has a focus on Database Testing, Mobile Testing, and Testing Techniques. Lynn McKee is an advocate of the software quality management practices espoused by Jerry Weinberg and provides consulting on software management, leadership and testing. Lynn is active within the software testing community by speaking at conferences, writing articles, contributing to blogs and forums. Nancy Kelln enjoys working with teams that are implementing or enhancing their testing practices and provides adaptive testing approaches to both agile and traditional testing teams. Conference FormatFebruary 29, 2012 - Track Sessions
A full-day conference containing 4 concurrent tracks focused towards: - Testing Techniques
- Test Automation
- Test Management & Metrics
- Next Wave of Testing
Cost for the conference will be $200/person with an early bird price of $155. We will be looking to provide price breaks for students and unemployed attendees at $99/person. Also, paid TISQA members will get a price break of $155/person. March 1, 2012 - Workshops
There will be a 4 Full day workshop tracks. The workshop presenters are Rob Sabourin, Lynn McKee with Nancy Kelln, Bob Galen and Karen Johnson. Cost is $250 for a full-day session, including lunch & snacks.
More InformationWe’ll be posting more information in the near future but if you have any questions email info@tisqa.com indicating your company, your name, phone & email contacts, and the # of potential attendees from your company for the conference and for the workshops. We will in turn keep you up-to-date as the conference program develops.
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