Registration & coffee

Introduction and welcome
Stephen Allott, Capita - Programme Chair

Speed networking – all delegates and speakers

The Future Starts Today - Not Tomorrow
Chris Ambler, NMQA
This talk presents Chris’ vision of the future of IT,  how people will use it and the impact on testing this will bring (and is already bringing). Areas to be covered are:

• BYOD,
• Big Data
• The Cloud.

Round Table 1: The Future of Testing
What are the big challenges for Testers today, and how these can be addressed.
Chaired by: Stephen Allott, Capita

Coffee

Case Study 1: Putting QA into Agile
Andy Redwood, J P Morgan
In the current financial climate, it is prudent to spend some money to save more money where possible. 

Within testing services centres, it is common to attempt to plan, design, automate and execute your tests in the most efficient and effective way possible.  At times this means taking the difficult decisions to move away from what you have done for years and change to more modern and potentially more efficient methods – such as Agile and, in particular, Scrum, but how do you undertake global QA within an Agile world?

In an organisation the size of JP Morgan, changing all your lines of business to an Agile world is challenging, particularly when you happen to be No. 2 in the Fortune 500; but we made the decision to do it.  It’s a work in progress, but here is our story to date...

11.40 Keynote: Test Integration and Service Virtualisation
Stephen Rowles, Senior Software Engineer, IBM Software Group, Rational

Round Table 2: Challenges of Testing in the Cloud
Chaired by: Rob Lambert, NewVoiceMedia

Coffee

Case Study 2: Stylish Mobile Testing - (How NET-A-PORTER Group do mobile testing)
Dan Ashby, Software Test Analyst at Net-A-Porter Group Ltd and Nehir Yelkovan, Mobile Test Analyst at Net-A-Porter Group Ltd The Challenges of mobile testing:

• Fragmentation
• Mobile App Vs Mobile Web
• Mobile Automation

Case Study 3: Crowdsourcing: a new way of testing?
Martin Mudge, Bugfinders
Martin tells the story of how a large bank used Crowdsourcing as a novel solution to their testing problem.

Tea

Case Study 4: Test Automation for CMS Backed applications – Channel 4 Case Study
Anand Ramdeo, Testing Geek
Testing and automating CMS backed applications is challenging and different from testing web applications. Channel 4, like many media organisations, has many websites such as 4Food, 4Beauty, 4Home and so on. These websites are powered by a powerful CMS and the usual test automation techniques wouldn't have worked.  Anand shares the challenges he faced and approaches he took for the automation of CMS backed web applications.

Public Beta Testing: HIT - Human Interaction Testing
Seth Okai, Beta Test Programme Coordinator, NBS

• Overview of the methodology
• Getting started (easy tips and steps to get going)
• Closed and Open Beta 
• Tools of the trade (some low cost suggestions to get started and win approval)
• Recording the results (tips on issue submission from your testers)
• The feedback (not them, YOU!)
• Positive PR and avoiding pit falls

Round Table 3: Tester Skills of the Future (Goldfish bowl Discussion Session): What will my test tools of the future look like?
Chaired by: Steve Watson, Reed Business Information

The Ways, the What's and the How's of Testers.
Tony Bruce, Amido Developments Ltd
This will be an interactive session and the topics discussed will be directed by the room.  Some areas that could be covered are:
* psychology of the Tester * interactions with peers * value brought to the business
* tools * skills * what makes Testers tick? * how Testers use their skills to help deliver

We will help each other question ourselves (and others) to help realise how much value we do and can bring and what and how we do it.  The idea is to help people realise testing is certainly not breaking stuff. Or it shouldn't be. Or maybe it is. Come find out!

Chairman’s summary
Stephen Allott, Capita

Drinks and networking (co-hosted by IBM, Collabnet, HP, UC4)

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