testing conferences in Europe 2009

EuroSPI Conference September 2-4,2009 Madrid, Spain
Conquest 2009 September 16-18, 2009 Nuremberg, Germany
Software & Systems Quality Conferences October 5, 2009 London, UK
Agile Testing Days October 12-14, 2009 Berlin, Germany
expo:QA October 27-29, 2009 Madrid, Spain
EuroSTAR Nov 30 - Dec 03, 2009 Stockholm, Sweden

panaudotas darbo skelbimas

Programinės įrangos testuotojas (-a)
Vieta: Vilnius
Darbuotojo veiklos sritis: IT, telekomunikacija
Siūlomo darbo pobūdis: - įmonės gaminamų medicinos prietaisų programinės įrangos:
• funkcinis testavimas,
• patogumo naudotis testavimas,
• vartotojo sąsajos testavimas,
• saugumo testavimas;
- testavimo scenarijų kūrimas;
- testavimo ataskaitų rengimas.
Reikalavimai: - analitinis mąstymas, kruopštumas, užsispyrimas siekiant tikslo, iniciatyvumas;
- sugebėjimas dirbti komandoje ir savarankiškai;
- geros anglų kalbos žinios (raštu);
- testavimo darbo patirtis;
- darbo patirtis su defektų valdymo sistemomis (Bugzilla, Trac ar pan.);
- darbas su biuro programomis (MS Office, OpenOffice ar pan.) patirtis.

Privalumai: - programavimo patirtis (C/C++);
- mikrovaldiklių pagrindų išmanymas;
- elektronikos pagrindų išmanymas
Įmonė siūlo: - galimybę tobulinti žinias kursuose, seminaruose;
- papildomą lengvatų paketą;
- kvalifikaciją atitinkantį atlyginimą;
- draugišką kolektyvą bei geras darbo sąlygas.

Software Testing Automation Search Engine

New search engine from google dedicated for software automated testing. all search results relating only testing. Trie www.googleautomation.com

New topic: web bugs

Time from time while searching in the web I find interesting stuff, relating testing. Mostly grammar small bugs. Decided to share with you.
Today's picture was found in internet bank system, swedbank. Tried to edit my direct debit payment, and did not get the right button name :)

what about crisis?

everyone has been talking about crisis, The Crisis, already more than a year. so, what is the crisis impact for software testing and testers? "software consulting firm Ovum claims that the worldwide software testing services market is projected to reach 56 billion dollars by 2013, despite the global economic crisis".
In my background, all IT sector has less sofware projects. Companies save money first of all cutting IT expenses.
IT software companies may start saving with fewer testers. One person commented: "a client does want to buy testing services. He will test the product himself". Developers and coders are more valuable - they code and then test the product. And the tester remains as a luxury for better times.
When considering among testers, company would necessarily cut manual testers first over technical testers.
How do you feel crisis as a tester?

impressions: conference in Riga

My late impressions on ‚ 10th Annual Conference for Testing Professionals "TEST MORE FOR LESS". One day conference, starting early in the morning. Had a chance to see Riga old town in the evening.

It was not first time taking attending the conference – during studies at the UNI, we have prepared once. This was the first time I attended a testing related event. So many testers in one place :)
The organisers of the conference really worked hard. Our company group enjoyed everything – the presentations in English, the time management, coffy breaks and tasty luch. Now, the program and all conference material are available at is.lv website.

The main impression – automation and agile rules. Last year we also switched from waterfall to RUP iteration. and starting more serious automated testing..

What is the drawback of a conference, that presentations are short. (If you are not interested or do not understand Latvian, of course, happy it is only 20-30 minutes) When you are really interested in a topic, you will hear only a few good ideas from one person. There is no time for deeper disccusion. Had questions for myself on agile and automated testing not answered, despite many items in program on that. The next thing, many of the presentations were strongly based on theory, and that was so familiar...
The presentations I enjoyed the most:
*Test Case: one tail, 7 heads (Ainārs Galvāns);
*Session Based Exploratory Pair Testing over Skype (Oleg Stasyuk);
*Equivalence Class and Boundary Value Testing Methods – Well-Known and Unexplored (Vineta Arnicāne);
*Testing in Agile Projects – Case Study (Armands Baranovskis, Sanda Linde);
*Selection and evaluation of GUI testing tool (Olga Smorodova);
*Choosing and Implementation of OpenSource solutions for the project and testing process management in LKB ISP

Conference for Software Testing professionals in RIGA

10th Annual Conference for Software Testing professionals will take place in Riga, Latvia (University of Latvia),
on June 5, 2009.

There will be a chance to take ISTQB Advanced level exam. Anyone from LT interested?

New Software Quality Testing Certification

While reading the last issue of Testing experience, found a short message: 'Industry Leaders Announce New Software Quality Testing Certification'. QAMP® - Quality Assurance Management Professional. It sets high standards - to a broad theoretical knowledge – which needs to be demonstrated by 3 successfully passed certification examinations – it attests the practical knowledge and project experience of the certified employee. Theoretical and practical knowledge both have to be updated annually.
Upon completion of all three certificates and proof of the two year practical experience, the participant will be certified as iSQI Quality Assurance Management Professional (QAMP).

In case the applicant is not able to submit evidence of practical experience (e.g. graduates) the applicant will receive the status iSQI Quality Assurance Management Professional (QAMP) - Bachelor.

Attached the certification schema, not easy to understand. I suggest visiting their site, www.qamp.org.

My note, it is for professionals, not for beginners. And if you do not have ISTQB advanced or foundation level, forget about it for a while.
What I like the most - it is the the broad view - a few certificates and active participant in quality assurance process. That suggests that employees having it should be really professionals.