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Take advantage of our Early Bird Rates and at the same time guarantee a place, before we run out of places!
Save money and book before the 9th of March 2012. After this date, we will charge our regular prices.
On the coastal express we only have a limited number of places and in addition some of our tutorials also have. So make sure you get a place and book now!
Go to our registration page for more information.

We are very proud to present this year's program with a lot of very good speakers and very interesting subjects.

Have a look at an overview or detailed.

We will later announce when the registration will be opened. We will also offer Early Bird discounts, so follow us!

If you want to become a speaker on this unique conference, you should hurry and send in your proposal as soon as possible: only 5 days left.

Information can be found here.

The next Free Test Conference, will become a part of a larger conference to be organized from the 8th of May 2012 until the 11th.

A Call for Papers has now been published and can be found on this website in the menu or directly here.

More information will be published as soon as more details are ready. So follow this website !!

Although we had a fantastic program again, the attendance was a bit disappointing this year. We think this was caused by the global recession. Together with the Norwegian Computer Society (Den Norske Dataforeningen) we have decided to not arrange this conference the coming year, but rather put all energy in organizing a fantastic happening again in 2012.

The existing program committee will take a break now and a new committee will be established this autumn. Preparations for Free Test 2012 will already start in the beginning of 2011.

By Jørgen Austvik and Tor Stålhane

Martin Gijsen, now an independent testing consultant, got involved in test automation when his colleague Hans Buwalda gave a presentation on the topic at a company meeting. He found it interesting and has enjoyed supporting testers with tools for automation for over ten years.

Which speakers contribute with their  Lightning Talks is now also included in our program. Have a look at the program and make your choices!

By Jørgen Austvik and Tor Stålhane

Vegard Hartmann heads the quality and testing group at the Norwegian consulting company Bekk but does not see himself as a tester, but as a software developer that is concerned with delivering software of high quality to his customers. To ensure the quality for the customers, testing and QA are important elements.

Due to limitations in time, the programme committee has decided to replace the announced Open Space session with a session called 'The World Café'.

We will probably also have to limit this to only include 2 themes. We will publish more information about how this session will be run and which themes we have chosen this Wednesday, so follow this website for more information to come!

For those who are new to this process, The World Café has a website where you can get more information: theworldcafe

By Jørgen Austvik and Tor Stålhane

Vemund started to work with testing in 1999 at Clustra – a local database company that was later acquired by Sun Microsystems. After a couple of months in support, Vemund wanted to move into testing. His first assignment was testing database backup and restore, and when he discovered that only one out-of three of the restores were consistent, he decided that testing was a good field to work in and he has stayed there ever since.