Past Conferences
2009 Conference At-a-Glance
The following is an at-a-glance view of the program schedule for the three-day PNSQC 2009 conference.
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Monday, October 26, 2009
Registration Open, 7:30 – 8:30 AM
Workshops, 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM
W1. Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) in Practice, Elisabeth Hendrickson
W3. Transparent Decisions: Managing the Project Portfolio, Johanna Rothman
W4. Exploratory Testing Explained, James Bach
W5. What to Performance Test – Choose Wisely, Scott Barber
W6. SQL for Testers, Part II, Karen Johnson
Conference Social Kickoff with Poster Papers (open to the public), 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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7:30-8:00 AM |
Registration and Exhibits Open |
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8:00-8:15 AM |
Welcome and Opening Remarks |
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8:15-9:45 AM |
Keynote |
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9:45-10:15 AM |
Break in Exhibit Hall |
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Testing |
Automation |
Management |
Soft Skills |
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10:15-11:00 AM |
Reducing Test Case Bloat |
Build Robust Test Automation Solutions for Web Applications |
INVITED SPEAKER Learning from Pragmatic Project Managers: Make Your Project Successful |
Improve Quality by Making Clear Requests and Commitments |
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11:10-11:55 AM |
The Effect of Highly-Experienced Testers on Product Quality |
Too much automation or not enough? When to automate testing. |
The Elephant in the Room: Using Brain Science to Enhance Working Relationships |
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12:00-1:25 PM |
Birds of a Feather Lunch (Dessert in the Exhibit Hall) | |||
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Testing |
Automation |
Retrospectives |
Process Improvement |
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1:30-2:15 PM |
INVITED SPEAKER Building Alliances |
Some Observations on the Transition to Automated Testing |
Can’t Travel? Virtual Retrospectives Can Be Effective! |
Moving Software Quality Upstream: The Positive Impact of Lightweight Peer Code Review |
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2:25-3:10 PM |
Web Security Testing with Ruby and Watir |
Retrospective Analysis and Prioritization Areas for Beta Release Planning Improvement |
Quality Cost Management |
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3:15-3:45 PM |
Break | |||
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Testing |
Process Improvement |
Requirements |
Testing |
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3:45-4:30 PM |
Testing IPv6 Enabled Applications |
INVITED SPEAKER Lessons Learned in Large Scale Process Improvement |
A Distributed Requirements Collaboration Process |
The Search for Software Robustness |
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4:40-5:20 PM |
Test Faster |
Developing Requirements for Legacy Systems: |
Lightning Talks |
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5:30-6:30 PM |
Evening Reception in the Exhibit Hall Complimentary hors d’oeuvres & beverages, open to all attendees |
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6:30-7:30 PM |
Presentation, co-sponsored with the Rose City SPIN | |||
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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7:30-8:00 AM |
Registration Open |
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8:00-9:30 AM |
Keynote |
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9:30-10:15 AM |
Break with Poster Papers |
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Testing |
Quality Techniques |
Agile |
Software Quality |
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10:15-11:00 AM |
Half-Baked Ideas for Rapid Test Management |
Software Pedigree Analysis: |
Distributed Team Collaboration |
INVITED SPEAKER The Myths of Rigor |
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11:10-12:00 PM |
Best Practices for Security Testing: Top 10 Recommended Practices |
Reconfiguring the Box: Thirteen Key Practices for Successful Change Management |
Moving to an Agile Testing Environment: What Went Right, What Went Wrong |
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12:00-1:25 PM |
Lunch Break | |||
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Testing |
Quality Techniques |
Agile |
Software Quality |
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1:30-2:15 PM |
Why Tests Don’t Pass |
Leveraging Code Coverage Data to Improve Test Suite Efficiency and Effectiveness |
Managing Software Debt: Continued Delivery of High Value as Systems Age |
Score One for Quality: Using Games to Improve Product Quality |
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2:25-3:10 PM |
Visualizing Software Quality |
Where are You in Usability? |
My Experience of Adopting an Agile Software Development Approach |
New Challenges to Quality in the 24×7 Enterprise IT Shop: Post-Integrated Business Automation Systems |
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3:15-3:45 PM |
Break with Poster Papers | |||
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Testing |
Data Mining |
Process Improvement |
Software Quality |
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3:45-4:30 PM |
INVITED SPEAKER Everyone Can Test Performance |
An Empirical Study of Data Mining Code Defect Patterns in Large Software Repositories |
Improving Your Quality Process: a Practical Example |
Holding our Feet to the Fire |
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4:40-5:20 PM |
Data Mining for Process Improvement |
I Have Two Managers?!: One Company’s Model for a Consultative Testing Team and Matrix Management |
ProdTest: A Production Test Framework for SAAS Deployment at Salesforce.com |
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5:30-6:00 PM |
Plenary & Conference Close Encore Best Paper Presentation |
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