QA&TEST closure successfully his 11ª edition in Bilbao

The past Friday 19 October finalised the 11ª edition of QA&TEST, the international conference devoted to the testing and the quality of software in systems embebidos organised by SQS and the Association Innovalia. During three days, the participants have enjoyed of a total of 27 reports with a high technical content and formative accompanied of professionals of all the world that have created an environingingment inmejorable.

The first day of QA&TEST began with two tutoriales in parallel, of four hours of length. The first of them, given by Bryan Baker, was centred in the agile technicians of testing, under the title ‘Scrum and Testing… the end of the test role?'. In the second Gary Draishpits and Shmuel Gershon tackled the technicians advanced of design of proofs with his tutorial ‘Advanced Test Design techniques: Embedded Systems Exploratory testing & Combinatorial KDT'.

After the inauguration, of the hand of Jesús of the Maza president of Innovalia, Xabier Sabalza, Director of Innovation and Information Society of the Basque Government and Begoña Laibarra, general director of SQS, took place an exceptional keynote, given by Lynn McKee in which resaltó the importance of the tools of Mindmapping in the daily work of the professionals of the proofs. The day finalised with the pertaining reports to the tracks ‘Gestión of the Quality of Software' and ‘Practical of Testing in Industrial states'.

The Thursday, QA&TEST was equally full of brilliant reports and of big content, englobadas inside the tracks thematic ‘Automation of Proofs and Testing in devices and mobile applications', composed each one by four presentations. In the afternoon, they took place the tracks ‘Verification and Validation' and ‘Testeo of Systems in Real Time'. The day finished with a round table, in which they participated the speakers Bryan Bakker, Lynn McKee and Jan Jaap Cannegieter, moderated by Begoña Laibarra. During the 60 minutes of length, argued about the future of the testing and the role of the testeador, and generated an intense debate between panelistas and the audience.

The last day began with a fantastic keynote of the hand of Derk-Jan Of Grood, titled ‘Testing for the business, it's to people's job'. To continuation, gave the tracks ‘Organisation of Equipment of Proofs” and ‘Technical of Testing', that gave step to the act of closure, in which it awarded the Prize to the Best Speaker to Lynn McKee, by his presentation ‘Transforming your organisations'.

During these three days, QA&TEST has gathered to more than 150 professionals of the industry of the testing and the quality of software come of all the world, a fact that confirms the international interest by the quality of the software.