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The leading testing conference in the Nordic region Nordic Testing Days 2013 brings top software development and testing experts to Tallinn on June 5-7th. It is a good opportunity for discussing and covering all the latest IT topics as well as meeting opinion leaders of the field.
Each day will be filled with thought-provoking topics, hands-on workshops and tutorials on different methodologies and tools.
Among other themes the conference will focus on:
› Solving testing challenges for mobile apps;
› Why do huge projects from time to time end up in failure;
› Powerful test monitoring techniques;
› Assessing and improving testing;
› Agile testing and tackling the risks;
› Building and maintaining relationships between testers and developers;
› Automated web testing;
› People as the dominant factor for successful testing projects;
Nordic testing Days is organized by the Estonian Testing Board.
NTD 2013 theme is "Testers & Developers - Partners in Quality".
The organizers believe collaboration, synergy and learning from each other are the
cornerstones of quality. We expect developers, analysts, user experience experts and other specialists to share and learn from one another.
Key-Note speakers
Julian Harty
"Symbiotic Relationships between Testing and Analytics"
This keynote will cover many of the key aspects of working with Analytics. These include:
› How does Analytics work?
› Calibrating: the tools, our understanding, and our practices.
› Potential pitfalls.
› Applying the concepts.
When Analytics is used effectively, it provides fast, inexpensive, and valuable feedback. Testers have a vital role to play in establishing justified confidence in the use of Analytics. Testers can then use the data to shape and improve both their work and the end product.
We will use Mobile Analytics to exemplify various topics and challenges as it provides rich and interesting situations that need to be considered.
Julian Harty has been working in technology since 1980. He has worked at eBay, was the first foreign test engineer at Google and ran the systems and operations for Dun & Bradstreet’s European R&D unit for 11 years. Since then he has been directing and consulting a mix of companies. One of his interests is sharing ideas and practices freely. He contributes to various books and much of his materials are available online.
Margus Simson
"Buying an acronym for a huge amount of money"
Why do huge projects from time to time end up in failure, even though tons of effort and money have gone into them? That is the question Margus Simson, key-note speaker at NTD 2013, wants to give an answer to. Simsons lecture explains that sometimes extensive development projects come to their conclusion without any of the desired benefits. Why does this happen? Who is to blame? Business? Analysts? Developers? Testers? Users? And how to finally come out of this loop? Margus Simson will give his insight to the problem.
As a business expert of internet-related systems Simson is no stranger to leading large software development projects – like business systems change and more recently the free market project at Eesti Energia, Estonias biggest utility company.
Simson comes with a resumé of overseeing development of self-services, internet banks, complex home page and intranet solutions. He has worked for Eesti Energia as CIO and seen both sides of development world during critical periods. He has worked also at Swedbank and SEB, two leading banks in Estonia.
Pat Maddox
Although testers need strong technical skills, that’s not all it takes to be successful. Pat Maddox presents the idea that testers need to provide different perspectives on how software works and how the people who use it work and live. "They need to understand world views. They are the empathic ones, the compassionate ones," says Maddox, a key-note at NTD 2013. Maddox will talk about the differences of view between testers and developers and how to breach the gap that exists.
Developers are focused on making sure things work right and they operate at some level in a matter of black and white. "Testers need to be the ones with an understanding of the broader perspective, and this includes understanding the limitations of developers, and critically, helping us break through them," explains Maddox in his interesting presentation.
Taavi Kotka
The importance and the role of testers have changed considerably during last decades.
IT advisor of The Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications Taavi Kotka will present his view on these changes and also take act a bit as a fortune teller predicting what the future of testing brings. Kotka has 15 years of experiencse in IT. He is one of the founders of Nortal, a leading Estonian IT-company, and was the chairman of Estonian Association of Information Technology and Telecommunications for many years.
Lloyd Roden
"Test Manager Dashboards"
Lloyd is going to demonstrate 7 powerful test monitoring techniques and show how to tailor test managers dashboard to the recipient's needs.
"Gathering and presenting clear information about quality, both product and process, may be the most important part of the test manager's job. Test reports need to be concise, predictive, accurate and relevant to the people receiving them," Lloyd explains. Lloyd Roden has been working in the software industry for 28 years and is a former developer and test manager. He has spoken at various conferences all over the world, including STAREAST, STARWEST, EuroSTAR, AsiaSTAR, Belgium Testing Days and Better Software. He has won the European Testing Excellence award in 2004.
Alon Linetzki
"Transition: From a traditional into an Agile tester"
Changing IT development methods can be demanding and there are many aspects companies need to be aware of to benefit from Agile practices. At this year's Nordic Testing Days expert test engineer Alon Linetzki will teach participants what to look for when implementing Agile testing methods.
The popular speaker states that companies often choose to implement only part of agile practices, leaving the teams with multiple challenges in many areas.
"We shall examine the changes need in order to do that transition, the new ways of working, and the routes to be taken to enable us to perform this change more effectively, smoothly, and suited to our company – increasing our added value as testers." Alon Linetzki is a testing coach and consultant with over 18 years in testing, and over 28 years in IT. He is the author of multiple testing courses and co-founder of the Israeli Testing Certification Board and the founder and chair of SIGiST Israel.
Julian Harty
"Solving Testing Challenges for Mobile Apps"
The topic of testing mobile apps will get attention under the guidance of Julian Harty, a well-known advocate for sharing ideas and practices. Harty wants to show that we can improve how we develop and test our mobile apps if we choose to do so. "Testing mobile apps is a rich and sometimes enjoyable activity. However many apps are clearly being released with significant bugs that are then fixed in subsequent releases, after users have been let down by failures in the app," Julian says.
His tutorial will give attendees hands on experience as well as practical and theoretical information on challenges facing testers. One of the topics Julian’s tutorial will discuss is of Mobile Analytics, which is already used by many development teams but can cause security, confidentiality and privacy problems. But Mobile Analytics data could also be used to identify quality problems, as Julian explains. Julian Harty has been working in technology since 1980. He has worked at eBay, was the first foreign test engineer at Google and ran the systems and operations for Dun & Bradstreet’s European R&D unit for 11 years. Since then he has been directing and consulting a mix of companies. One of his interests is sharing ideas and practices freely. He contributes to various books and much of his materials are available online.
Geoff Thompson
"Assessing and improving testing"
Nordic Testing Days 2013 brings to Tallinn TMMi expert Geoff Thompson; who's tutorial will show the benefits of knowing ones "maturity".
As one of the founder members of TMMi foundation Geoff is the right speaker to explain what Test Maturity Model integration (or TMMi) is and how this model can help organizations both qualitatively and quantitatively. „The day will also include a quick assessment which will provide an indicative view of where within the 5 levels of TMMi, each attendee's company, project or team is currently positioned," Geoff promises.
Thompson will help participants with assessing their own work, provides background information and shows the trends in software testing industry today. Geoff Thompson is currently the Vice Governance Officer to the ISTQB board and chairs the UK Testing Board. In 2008 Geoff was awarded the European Testing Excellence Award.
Mait Peekma
"Introduction to Web Application Security Testing"
Security is an important feature of web applications. The participants are engaged with a lecture, live attack demonstrations and practical examples followed by individual hands-on exercise scenarios. The tutorial is focused on attacks to create a better understanding of the necessity of defense.
The tutorial starts with an overview of client-server system, HTTP, session management and security testing tools. The following topics will be covered more thoroughly: cross-site scripting (XSS), business logic implementation errors, access control flaws and session security including session hijacking. Participants will be able conduct tests to find some of the most evil web application security flaws and are armed with knowledge on how to defend their applications against these vulnerabilities. Mait Peekma is an experienced security tester with banking industry background. He is currently working at Clarified Security OÜ as penetration tester.
There are many workshops or hands-on events to choose from at this year's conference. For example: We are going to show you how to start trying out ATDD, BDD, specification driven testing and a dozen other that make up a world beyond unit testing.
› Learn how to tackle product risks in Agile environments.
› We open the toolbox for testers and look inside. It will provide invaluable insight and
help us get better at whatever we are doing.
› Explore ways to implement automated testing.
Nordic Testing Days 2013 includes also many interesting tracks that cover all the sides of this year's theme: "Testers & Developers – Partners in Quality".
› Teamwork and relations with customers.
› Quality and responsibility.
› Developing efficient IT services.
› Test automation and extracting more value from testing.
› Human factor in testing.
› Different testing techniques, methods and experience – it's all here.
There are many interesting presenters to meet, so the participants will get a good international insight.
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