Themed 'The Second Wave of Testing', the conference will bring together practitioners and thought leaders from the industry, academia and government, for sharing and exchanging ideas and learning in the area of software testing and process improvement. The two-day conference will be followed by post-conference tutorials across various cities.
STC 2008, organised in association with the Edista Testing Institute (ETI), is supported by various Software Process Improvement Networks (SPINs), CSI’s Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (CSI-SIG), Test Republic and is sponsored by corporates like HP Software, Accenture, iTKO LISA, AceQa, Landis+Gyr and the D. E. Shaw group.
The conference will also see speakers including Sashi Reddi, chairman, Applabs Technologies; Michel Guez, managing director, Smartesting; Murali Krishnan, director, testing services and operations, Cognizant Technologies; and Ranjana Narawane, lead technology capabilities, Accenture, amongst others.
Amongst the 600 delegates attending the conference, representatives from software companies in the Asia Pacific region including CTOs, CXOs, testing experts, consultants and trainers will be present. There has also been widespread interest from various international delegations like Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, Sri Lanka and Australia, to participate and avail of the opportunity to interact with the global leaders of the outsourced testing industry.
Practitioners from various testing organisations contest for The Testing Leadership Award at the conference. The conference this year has received over 330 best papers and practices from over 85 maturity companies across the world. |
