With greetings from a wintery Ireland, I bring you the October issue of the STAR Tester. As the weeks draw closer to EuroSTAR 2008 I encourage you to book your place today! With over 30 hours of testing, 5 exciting Keynotes brought to you by some of the world's greatest testing minds, workshops, fun session and much, much more – this is an action packed week not to be missed.
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October also brings with it an exciting sneak preview from one of our EuroSTAR 2008 Keynote Speakers. On Wednesday October 15th, James Lyndsay will present a 30 minute webinar based on his Keynote ‘Becoming Agile – Reshaping Testing for an Agile Team’ . Register for this webinar today!
This issue contains a further preview of our outstanding line-up for this year’s conference, including articles based on Tutorial, Workshop AND Track sessions! We can guarantee there is something for everyone at EuroSTAR 2008!
Please don’t forget that October 17th is the deadline for 2008 Testing Excellence Award nominations. By taking the time to nominate, you can show your appreciation for someone who has really made a difference within the software testing industry. Full details of how to nominate are available on our website.
I’d like to extend my thanks to all of you who entered last month's Early Bird Competition to win a free place at EuroSTAR 2008. Congratulations to Jessica Algovik, SEB, Sweden who will be joining us this year in The Hague courtesy of EuroSTAR.
I also would like to congratulate ps_testware who have won a two page advertisement in the year’s conference guide for their cooperation in promoting our Early Bird Competition. Thank you to all the participating companies.
Kind regards,
Susan McAndrew
Editor
The continuing flow of new ideas, practices and tools in software testing is a sign of the vigor in our field (software testing and quality improvement). Before we can understand where we are likely to be going, or decide where we want go, it helps to have a realistic sense of where we are today. I will take an opinionated and controversial – though carefully justified -- tour of today’s thinking and practices in software, software testing, and software quality.
ISO 29119 is the new (and first) international software testing standard, but it isn’t even published yet – so why should it be of any interest to you?