Program

Programme Monday 23rd of March

 

8:00

Registration

09:00

Opening Remarks

with Eirik Thun, Chairman Norwegian Computer Society Trøndelag

09:15

Key Note: Mieke Gevers - Aqis, Belgium
Can we justify the choice "open source tools versus commercial tools"?

10:00

Morning break: visit the exhibition

10:45

Gaurav Oberoi, Rajesh Bharathan, Prathamesh Satpute - L&T Infotech, India
Open Source Test Infrastructure

Hans Schaefer - IEEE, Norway
Taxonomy of Testing Tools according to ISTQB

11:30

Lunch: visit the exhibition

12:45

Frank Wathne - Bekk Consulting, Norway
Automated Testing of Non-functional Requirements

Martin Gijsen- Independent Consultant, The Netherlands
Exploring no man's land with keyword driven testing

13:45

Vidar Kongsli - Bekk Consulting, Norway
Introduction to automated testing: pragmatic approaches and tools

Jørgen Austvik - Sun Microsystems, Norway
Hudson: Introduction and experiences

14:30

Afternoon break: visit the exhibition

15:15

Jan Sabak - Independent Consultant, Poland
Performance tests with JMeter

Nikhil Bhandari - Intuit, India
Automating non-GUI components of an application built on Microsoft technologies using Windows PowerShell

16:15

Key Note: Dorothy Graham - Independent Consultant, UK

Test Automation Objectives

17:00

Final Remarks and Closing Conference with Henri van de Scheur, Program Chair Free Test 2009

 

Workshop Tuesday and Wednesday 24-25th of March

Performance and Load Testing in Action - 2 days workshop with Mieke Gevers

A workshop build around the implementation & use of a Performance testing methodology, including:

  • Introduction into the definitions & terminologies of Performance testing and their practical meaning.
  • Defining testable performance objectives for web and non-web environments
  • The when & where of using performance workload models and their implications
  • Overview of the current performance testing tools
  • “Which Resources & when?”
  • What to monitor, Root cause analysis and results evaluation
  • Tips & tricks about performance testing
  • “Hands-on” – putting theory into practice

Attendees should be familiar with 3-tier environments, including Web server and Internet/Intranet technologies

Limited to a maximum of 24 attendees.

Attendees should bring their laptop for use in this workshop:

  • with a working internet connector and/or wireless, plus a DHCP enabled network connection configuration

  • UID with Administration rights to install the software

  • Memory: 512 MB RAM (minimum), preferably 1.2 GB

  • HD space: Minimum 500mb are required for the basic installation – preferable 1GB free