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Programme Software & Systems Quality Conferences
Dublin, 5th March 2008
 
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Time
     
9.00 - 9.45
Conference opening by:
Tom Kitt TD
Government Chief Whip and Information Society Minister

9.45 - 10.30
KEYNOTE
The Quality Ecosystem
Colm Butler     
Department of AnTaoiseach, Information Policy Unit

10.30 - 11.15
COFFEE BREAK
 
Round Table Discussions

Track Chair:
Jim Friars
Irish Computer Society
Lecture Theatre

Track Chair:
Rob McConnell
SQS
Interactive Discussions

Track Chair:
Claire Murphy
SQS
Supplier Seminars
11.15 - 12.00
Testing During The Development Phase Using OpenSource Tools



Richard Thompson
Liberty IT
The Quality Challenge for joined up Government -
A Criminal Justice
Case Study

Mary Scullion   
Northern Ireland Civil Service
Performance Testing - From Best Efforts to Best
Practice



Patricia Costelloe  
AIB
From The Trenches:
A Microsoft Testing Perspective


Martha Rotter
Microsoft

Share DSI's Experience of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition

Peter Buckley
DeCare Systems Ireland
12.00 - 12.45
Panel Discussion          
"Software Testers: Perceptions and Professionalism"



Mary Cleary
Irish Computer Society iCS

Test-Driven Development: Ensuring Quality From a Developer Perspective



Jedidja Bourgeois   
Microsoft

Performance Stress
Testing: Activity Profiling




Fergal Downey/  
Emer McVeigh
HBOS
An intensive case study of test offshoring



Paul Cronin
SQS
12.45 - 1.45
LUNCH
Automation strategies for different lifecycle approaches

Ken Brennock
Insight
The Practitioner's View of Test Automation

Jiri Machala
QASight/Moravia IT
1.45 - 2.30
KEYNOTE
Formula One is a Sport which Revolves around Testing and Quality
Mark Gallagher    
Eddie Jordan's Formula One Team

2.30 - 3.00
COFFEE BREAK
The Application Performance Lifecycle

Elma Cusack
Hewlett-Packard
 
Round Table Discussions

Track Chair:
Fran O'Hara
SoftTest Ireland
Lecture Theatre

Track Chair:
Paul Cronin
SQS
Interactive Discussions

Track Chair:
Fergal O'Riordan
Anglo Irish Bank
Supplier Seminars
3.00 - 3.45
Testing in a Service
Oriented Architecture      


Dave Rigler 
SQS
Making Sure Information Quality Matches Software Quality


Daragh O'Brien 
International Association for Information & Data Quality (IAIDQ)
End-User Computing: Risks in Spreadsheets


Patrick O'Beirne
SoftTest Ireland
From The Trenches:
A Microsoft Testing Perspective


Martha Rotter
Microsoft

Share DSI's Experience of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition

Peter Buckley
DeCare Systems Ireland
3.45 - 4.30
The Truth about
Outsourcing
Looking Forward to
Outsourcing 2.0           
  

Arpit Kaushik   
Crystals Design Limited
Green Testing:
The Race Against Waste





Joan Jordan 
o2
Virtualisation of
Test Environments





Mark Scully/ 
Sean O'Sullivan
Irish Stock Exchange
Caught In The Middle Testing - the 'No Mans Land' between Systems Test and UAT on Vendor-supplied software


Adrienne Reddan
Delphi Technologies
4.30 - 5.15  
Running a centralised Performance testing service in an Ecommerce World



Peter Pinto
Friends Provident
SQuaRE standard




Michael O'Duffy
The Centre for Software Engineering
Requirements-Driven Testing:
The Clear Solution for Improving Application Quality


Fergal McGovern
Compuware
5.15 -6.15
NETWORKING SESSION