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.

ISTQB advanced certification ir Lithuania

Good title of the post. If you have questions about advanced ISTQB certification in Lithuania, the only answer is - not possible (only foundation level). For the moment, there is no testing board in Lithuania, so decided to write where you may take the tests for advanced certification.

Polish Testing Board (www.sjsi.org)works over 6 years. There would be no problem (i guess) to take the exam. The website is really full of information, even with the statistics - pass and fail ratio.

Latvia Testing Board is a few times younger. And for now they have accreditation only for Foundation Level. You may read more on their web site.

(Updated post after the comment, thanks to Rimvydas)

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Software & Systems Quality Conference Germany

The Software & Systems Quality Conference (SQC) is Europe’s leading conference on software quality management, testing and process optimisation. Its continued growth since the first conference in 1996 bears testimony to the importance which IT managers and specialists attach to it. Besides conferences in Ireland, UK, Australia and Switzerland the SQC Germany offers a wide platform for professional exchange of experiences as reflected by the 800 plus delegates who attended the 2008 conference at the Congress Center Dusseldorf.
From 26 to 29 May 2009, SQC will offer industry specialists a combination of presentations, keynotes and workshops covering a wide range of sectors, as well as an exhibition.