Software Testing Conference 2004

Conference Program* At A Glance

Day 1- February 20, 2004 Le Meridien, Pune

0800 - 0915

Registration & Seating

0915 - 0920

Welcome address by Navyug Mohnot, Executive Director, QAI India

0920 - 0925

Welcome address by Deepak Shikarpur, CSI

Inaugural address by Mrs.Leela F.Poonawalla, Chairman, Tetrapak

Address by Lee Copeland, SQE- Quality Metrics For Testers: Evaluating Our Products - Evaluating Ourselves

Address by Brian Bryson, Rational- Automation Observations

Tea/Coffee Networking Break

'Test Oracle Generation Procedures & Executable Specifications'
- Rupak Das, Dr.Sita Ramakrishnan, Monash Univ

'Q A of OO Code in Design Phase'
- R A Khan, Mustafa, Sanjeev Yadava, Jamia Milia Univ

'Building Effective Testing Team'
- Suvrata Acharya, Kumud Iyer, NIIT

'EAI Testing Automation Strategy'
- Soumen Chatterjee, Cap Gemini E&Y

'Design Phase Quality Indicator for Object Oriented Design - An Experimental Approach'
- G.Kousalya, S.Duraisamy, SKEngg College

'Extreme Programming Methodology For Automated Regression Test Suite Development'
- Amogh Bendre, Sachin Deo, Giri, Verisoft

'Testing of Risk Management Applications'
- Nitesh Kumar, Neeraj Gupta, Naresh Raheja, RMSI

'Towards a Model for Outsourcing Acceptance Testing: Issues, Challenges and Best Practices'
- Kapil Bhatia, Jyoti Srivastav, TCS

'Optimizing Testing in a statistical way'
- Raja Gopalan, Vijay Nagarajan, Honeywell

'Automated XLBU'
- Reenee Muhsin, Motorola

'Quantitative Software Project Mgmt using Models and Metrics'
- David Raffo, Portland Univ

'Testing Network attached storage devices'
- Subodh Bandhawakar, TCS

	'Structured Approach to Internet Based Application Testing' - Bharat Shah, LockheedMartin Missile Systems
	'Man, this is SLOW!' - Gautam Satpathy, AppLabs

1240 - 1330

Lunch

Corporate Presentation- Quexst

Address by Dr.Rajendra Bera, IBM Global Services- On Fixing Bugs

Address by Sunil Gupta, Hughes Software Systems- Testing Culture and Practices for Product Organizations

Address by Katherin Wu, Compuware- Ensuring Quality Assurance in Dynamic Application Environment

Tea/Coffee Networking Break

'Testing Strategy for large offshore Projects'
- Anand V. Hudli, Object Orb

'Planning for Testing a Product Release'
- Latha S, Datamatics

'Extreme Programming in Software Testing'
- Surendran.S, Geethapriya.S, SISL

' Change Centric Testing'
- B.C.Sekar, HCL Tech

'Systems Stability Metrics'
- Yatin A. Dharamshi, SPCNL

'4-Tier Architecture of Functional Test Automation Framework'
- Pankaj S Bhatte, CTS

'Usability Testing to Improvise Online-banking experience'
- Ranganathan Santhanam, Rajee Natesan, HCL Tech

'Software Testing & Graphology'
- Anuj Magazine, Network Associates Software

'Cycle time improvement for System Testing - an approach'
- Chitra Gurjar, Novell Software

'A Quality Dashboard For Testing: Using (And Abusing) Metrics', Lee Copeland, SQE

19,30 onwards

Award Presentation, Presentation by Rational & Gala Dinner, Entertainment, Cocktails

Day 02- February 21, 2004 Le Meridien, Pune


	Address by Ashok Srinivas, TCS - A Formal Approach to Software Testing
	Address by Rick Craig, SQE- Identifying Testing Priorities Through Risk Analysis
	Address by Krish Murali Easwar, Ness Technologies- Self Diagnostics Software
	CSTE Presentation
	Presentation- Persistent Computer Systems, Mercury Interactive
	Tea/Coffee Networking Break
	*'Process Improvement in Testing*' - Ashley Fernandez, Mona Pandya, TCS	*'Prediction Model for Defects'* - Esha Banerjee, Kalyani Sekhar, NIIT
	*' An Overview of Network Element Simulator'* - Tan Wei Way, Motorola	*'Excellence in Test Management: Moving Beyond a Tactical Approach'* - S.Y.Shenoy, Oracle
	*'Application of Cost of Quality in Test Planning'* - Annu George, Balamurali, Lakshmi Priya S, NEST	*'Performance Testing - an Extreme Approach'* - Babu Lakshmanan, Palla Vinod Kumar, Baan Infosystem
	*'User Centric Software Development-Defect Prevention'* - Sravankumar, Kshema Tech	*'Testing of fast track releases to an operational Insurance System'* - Uma Nagory, Churchill
	*'Effective Scripting Techniques and Best Practices for Network Product testing* - Easwar Krishnan, Suganthi Natesan, Badrinath Sriman, HCL Tech
1300- 1400	Lunch
	Address by Jayakumar K.R., Amitysoft- Testing Application Building Frameworks
	Address by R.D.Shevade, Delphi- An experience with 24 x 7 automated testing
	Tea/Coffee Networking Break
	Address by Pradeep Waychal, PCS
	Address by Dr.S.A.Vetha Manickam, NSS- Need for Security Testing
	Panel Discussion - Predicting the future of Software Testing
	Vote of Thanks
* Conference Program is subject to last minute change(s).