The talk is entitled ‘Testing Standards by Numbers’

This presentation shall consider the topic of software testing standards, briefly covering the following five main areas; the motivation for their existence, the different aspects of testing that are included in standards, the justification for their content, the process for their development, and, finally, the new ISO/IEC 29119 standard on software testing.

The rationale for standards shall be considered from a variety of perspectives, including the economics of standards and the benefits and risks to both the testing and wider communities.

The breadth of the testing discipline covered by the different types of testing standards shall be described, and the murky issue of how the authors of these standards justify (or not) the inclusion of practices into these standards will be examined.

The difficulties of developing and publishing standards will be described in the context of the new ISO/IEC standard on software testing, which is, in part, due for publication later this year.

Talks on standards are often notable for their lack of quantitative evidence.  This presentation shall, wherever possible, use numbers as an aid to understanding and to provide a different perspective on this topic.

Stuart Reid has been the convener of WG26, the working group developing the new ISO/IEC standard, since its inception in 2007 and will provide personal insights into the development of testing standards, having been involved in this area since 1990.

For more information about the event please visit the MaSST website.

Date: 06 July

Time: 0830-1030 London

TSG and ConnectSphere invites you attend to focus on how ITIL service management and agile can compliment your organisation in achieving the right services which truly meet your customers’ needs during a project roll out.

The seminar will be presented by TSG’s John Young and Michelle Hales from Connectsphere, both of which are accredited BCS  trainers and examiners in their respective fields.

Introduction to the service lifecycle and its benefits in the context of project delivery

Michelle Hales, Training Director for ConnectSphere

This session will focus on the ITIL service lifecycle and specifically at some key concepts within ITIL service management such as service portfolio management and use of the service catalogue, the benefits of the service design package for quality delivery, testing and validation and release and deployment.

Introduction to Agile and its use in successful project delivery

John Young, Principal Consultant for TSG

Who should attend?

Project managers, program managers, service owners, IT managers, service professionals, any individual working within a service management role.

Agenda

• Registration and Coffee
• Introduction to the service lifecycle and its benefits in the context of project delivery
• Introduction to Agile and its use in successful project delivery
• Q & A and CLOSE

Registration for this event is FREE.

For a registration form please click here and include the following details:

• First Name
• Last Name
• Company
• Job Title
• Email Address

Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 11 and Team Foundation Server 11

Visual Studio 11 aims to unite everyone involved in a development project. This session will look at how project managers, designers, developers, testers and operations can easily collaborate to avoid duplication of effort and improve productivity.

The VS11 (Visual Studio 2011) beta version includes a range of new features and enhancements but those of specific interest to testers will include the following:

• Enhanced exploratory testing
• Brand new feedback tool and integrated storyboarding support
• Updates not only the developers environment but also adds Exploratory Testing and Rich Text Test Steps to MTM
• Lab Manager now handles Standard Environments as well as combining all agents (Build/Test/Lab) into one
• The coded UI Test Editor is now provided as standard
• And a whole host of other improvements to ALM

To register your interest in this free webinar please click here and include the following details:

• First Name
• Last Name
• Email Address
• Company
• Job Title

The Safety-Critical Systems Club (SCSC) was formed formally in 1991. The purpose of the club is to raise awareness of the issues related to safety-critical systems and to facilitate technology transfer associated with safety-critical systems. It is a non-profit organisation aimed at organisations and individuals and any bodies involved with safety-critical systems.

Up and coming events

SoS Safety – Safety in Systems of Systems

• June 21 2012, The Cumberland Hotel, London, UK

Principled Software Safety Assurance – Tim Kelly, University of York,

• October 04 2012, London, UK

Data-centric Safety

• December 04 2012, London, UK

21st Safety-critical System Symposium

• February 05-07 2013, tba

For more information please visit the Safety-Critical Systems Club website

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The event has many well-known international speakers and provides a chance for software testers in financial institutions to learn and network with link minded professionals.

Date: 16-17 May 2012

Location:

London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square
Grosvenor Square
London, W1K 6JP
United Kingdom

Conference Day 1 May 16th: 08.00-late with a cocktail party starting at 20.00

Conference Day 2 May 17th: 08.00- closing keynote 17.35

Speakers include:

• Model based testing using acceptance tests as oracle – Adrian Rapan
• Help! My supplier works agile and I don’t – Chris C. Schotanus
• Experience in Multinational Bank with Advanced Stakeholder Value Requirements: Quantified for Testability and Tracking – Tom & Kai Gilb
• Identity fraud and the use of electronic identity – Robin John Lee
• Agile Testing in a Regulated Environment – Peter Varhol
• Agile Transitioning – all change!? – Matthew Steer
• Filling the Gap – Testing what BDD doesn’t – Matthew Archer
• Testing Credit Risk Rating Models – Ron Coppejans

For the full conference programme click here

To register for the conference click here

TSG Skills Gap Recruitment Service is especially for software testers and organisations looking for specialist test resources, whether they are permanent or temporary employment roles. The recruitment service can offer companies reduced risk and costs during the recruitment process with pre-screened candidates from an extensive database of fully accredited testing professionals.

With over 20 years experience in providing clients with software testing training consulting and managed services, TSG understand how difficult it can be finding the right people with the testing skills and knowledge required in today’s changing technology and software testing space.

The Skills Gap Recruitment service is headed up by Ben Le Tissier, ISEB ISTQB Certified recruiter. Having specialised in only software testing roles for the last 7 years, Ben provides the perfect recruitment solution. Being ISEB ISTQB Certified himself Ben explains “I have my finger on the pulse of what is going on in the software testing market today and I will be able to guide or advise candidates or organisations successfully. At TSG we understand technology employment law and candidate availability. The recruitment service provides a fast, safe and cost effective way of finding your next placement for permanent or temporary testing staff”

It is important for an organisation to have the right skills and resources for software testing development programmes and project work, which are available at the right time. In some cases an organisation may have requirements where there is irregular demand that may not justify a permanent hire or the want to acquire and implement new testing skills that are aligned with software testing industry practice.

TSG’s Skills Gap recruitment service can offer companies reduced risk and costs during the recruitment process with pre-screened candidates from an extensive database of fully accredited testing professionals. Companies will be provided with only relevant candidates who are right for the job to save trawling through 1000’s of CV’s trying to find the right ones.

A Personal Test Maturity Matrix process, developed by TSG’s Dr Stuart Reid can also be used to help clients make the right employment decisions when developing their teams. The recruitment service works with clients to create a partnership and the partners are rewarded with software testing training value add programme.

Individual candidates can also find permanent and temporary testing roles that are available and guidance on how to succeed in the next tester role.

For more information about TSG’s Skills Gap Recruitment service for the software testing industry and how they could help you or your organisation, click here or email Ben Le Tissier bletissier@testing-solutions.com

“This is a great training course, full of realistic practical exercises that I can relate to my day to day tester responsibilities. It has helped me to appreciate how different scenarios will affect my test approach.”

“The way we looked at test techniques made much more sense than they way it was covered in the ISEB/ISTQB Foundation course in software testing. I really liked the team exercises, rolling the dice made it much more interesting.”

Click here to find out when the ISTQB Advanced Test Analyst course is next running in London and the UK. This course can also be run in-house at your premises.

Thursday 21 June 2012

The next BCS Software Testing Specialist Group SIGIST conference will be held on Thursday 21 June 2012 at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in Regents Park, London. This is a great conference for you to learn, improve your skills and network with other organisations and testers.

The agenda for the conference can be viewed at http://www.bcs.org/category/9264. Speaker abstracts and bios will follow shortly.

• Fiona Charles (Quality Intelligence Inc. & Program Chair at CAST 2012) – Opening Keynote “Are you managing testing – or ‘The test process’”
• Matthew Bissett (UK Government) – “Reducing test cycles from 9 months to 1 week”
• Richard Bishop (Intechnica) – “How fast Is the Cloud”
• Theresa Pemble (Severn Trent Water) – “How do you measure your own performance?”
• Simon Stewart (Google) – “In it for the long haul: end to end testing with selenium”
• Ard Kramer (Independent Consultant) – “The testers benchmark”

Morning Workshop (12 places available) – “Agile against the V model in a race” – Angelina Samaroo (Pinta Education)
Afternoon Workshop (12 Places available) – “Mind, map and strategy: using a mindmap to develop and communicate your test strategy” – Fiona Charles (Quality Intelligence Inc. & Program Chair at CAST 2012)

Registration is now open at https://events.bcs.org/book/251/, multiple and third party bookings can be made online also. An Early Bird discount is available for bookings made by 21 April 2012.

Fees* (prices stated are inclusive of VAT @ 20%)

Early Bird Rate (up to and including 21 April 2012)

Delegate Rate: £118.80
BCS Members: £108.00
Full Time Students: £54.00

Full Rate (after 21 April 2012):

Delegate Rate: £132.00
BCS Members: £120.00
Full Time Students: £60.00

Contact Details

If you would like to discuss any of the above please contact Kerry Earl, Member Groups Coordinator, on groups@hq.bcs.org.uk or 01793 417478.

www.sigist.org.uk