Impressions from 2011
Quantity & Quality
We provide a high amount of different speaking sessions and we also deliver a high level of Knowledge Transfer. 10 tutorials, 9 keynotes, more than 40 talks and several workshops hosted by more than 60 different testing professionals from all over the world. In 2011 our speakers obtained an overall average rating of 2,01 (good).
Speakers Overall Rating
For the whole rating breakdown of our speakers please download the evaluation statistic (PDF, 0.1 MB).
Best of Twitter Quotes
rvansteenbergen Rob van Steenbergen
“This was a great day at #agiletd Met interesting people, good discussions and finally saw @lisacrispin in real life. ;-) (and mny more)”
adampknight Adam Knight
“@lisacrispin @gojkoadzic it looks like an amazing evening, all conferences should be that much fun #agiletd”
Mira_from_QAC Mira Razman
“Amazingly good #agileTD conference here in Potsdam!! Exceeded my expectation already and there are 2more days 2go..awesome!”
themaxxmaster markus
“spent an amazing day and an inspiring evening with highly gifted people at #agiletd .. can't wait for todays sessions”
___nette Nette
“Thanks a lot to all #agileTD, it's been a great event!”
benhamidene Anis
“#agileTD on the way home thx 4 great impressions sessions and org.”
chrissbaumann Christian Baumann
“Bye,bye #agileTD It has been a great conference,I've talked to amazing people,listened to great talks&learned so much!Thx to you all!”
MikeAScott Mike Scott
“Thank you everybody at #agileTD. It's been a great conference with many truly inspiring presentations and conversations. :)”
marioschaniel Mario Schaniel
“Awesome conference! #AgileTD”
gravanov Alexey Gravanov
“On a way home from Agile Testing Days #agiletd. Thanks to all speakers and organizers, it was really enjoyable!”
Mira_from_QAC Mira Razman
“Jose, one hell of a job u did with ur #agileTD team!! Congrats!”
andreasschliep Andreas Schliep
“@AgileTD Thanks back for the great event. #agiletd was my best conference experience for years - sorry#Scrum gatherings”
ndrssmn Andreas Simon
“Thank you everybody at #AgileTD: organizers, speakers, participants. I am really blown away. :-)”
sarasaf Asaf Saar
“@AgileTD thank you! for making it so professional. I enjoyed every minute of it. Looking forward for #AgileTD 2012”
stefan_verhoeff Stefan Verhoeff
“Had a great Agile Testing Days conference; inspiring talks, some new tech skills and lot's of networking.Thanks all! #agileTD”
Agile Testings Days Blog reports from Attendees, Speakers & Sponsors
- The Social Tester – Idle thoughts of a Social Software Tester
- Agile UX Agile Coaching, SCRUM and User Experience, Agile & Lean Management Part I
- Agile UX Agile Coaching, SCRUM and User Experience, Agile & Lean Management Part II
- Adventures in QA – Software Testing, Agile Development, Mobile and Internet by Daniel Knott
- Huib's blog on Software Testing
- The Telerik Blogs
- Agile Testing with Lisa Crispin – Providing Practical Agile Testing Guidance
- Search Software Quality – News Part I
- Search Software Quality – Part II
- Arborosa – The wondrous world of software testing Part I
- Arborosa – The wondrous world of software testing Part II
- Agile Partner Community
Tutorials – November 14, 2011
| Time | Tutorial | Room | |
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| 08:00–09:00 | Registration | Foyer | |
| 09:00–13:00 | 14:00–17:30 | “Hooray! We’re Agile Testers! What’s Next? Advanced Topics in Agile Testing” Lisa Crispin |
F1 |
| 09:00–13:00 | 14:00–17:30 | “Transitioning to Agile Testing” Janet Gregory |
F2 |
| 09:00–13:00 | 14:00–17:30 | “Making Geographically Distributed Projects Work” Johanna Rothman |
D2 |
| 09:00–13:00 | 14:00–17:30 | “Dealing with Differences: From Conflict to Complementary Action” Esther Derby |
D4 |
| 09:00–13:00 | 14:00–17:30 | “Influence Strategies for Practitioners” & “Patterns for Improved Customer Interaction” Linda Rising |
D3 |
| 09:00–13:00 | 14:00–17:30 | “Critical Thinking Skills for Testers” Michael Bolton |
F3 |
| 09:00–13:00 | 14:00–17:30 | “Winning big with Specification by Example: Lessons learned from 50 successful projects” Gojko Adzic |
E1 |
| 09:00–13:00 | 14:00–17:30 | “Introduction to BDD” Elizabeth Keogh |
E3 |
| 09:00–13:00 | 14:00–17:30 | “Acceptance Testing: From Brains to Paper and Paper to Computer” Lasse Koskela |
E2 |
| 09:00–13:00 | 14:00–17:30 | “Agile Management: Leading Software Professionals” Jurgen Appelo |
Hotel am Jägertor |
Conference (Day 1) – November 15, 2011
| Time | Room F2–F3 | Room F1 | Room E1–E2 | Room D2–D4 | Room E3 (Vendor Track) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:00–09:25 | Registration | ||||
| 09:25–09:30 | Opening | ||||
| 09:30–10:30 | Room F2–F3 Keynote: “Agile Testing and Test Management” Johanna Rothman |
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| 10:30–11:30 | “What Testers and Developers Can Learn From Each Other” David Evans |
“Specification by Example using GUI tests – how could that work?” Geoff Bache & Emily Bache |
“Agile Performance Testing” Alexander Podelko |
“SQL PL Mock – A Mock Framework for SQL PL” Keith McDonald |
“The roles of an agile Tester” Sergej Lassahn (T-Systems Multimedia Solutions GmbH) ¹ |
| 11:30–11:50 | Break | ||||
| 11:50–12:50 | “Do agile teams have wider awareness fields?” Rob Lambert |
“Experiences with Semi-scripted Exploratory Testing” Simon Morley |
“Design For Testablity is a Fraud” Lior Friedman |
“Challenges in Mobile Test Automation” Daniel Knott (XING AG) ¹ |
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| 12:50–14:20 | Lunch | ||||
| 14:20–15:20 | Room F2–F3 Keynote: “Who do You Trust? Beware of Your Brain” Linda Rising |
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| 15:20–16:20 | “So you think you can test?” Huib Schoots |
“Session Based Testing to Meet Agile Deadlines” Mason Womack |
“Unit testing asynchronous JavaScript code” Damjan Vujnovic |
“Automated Functional Testing with Jubula: Introduction, Questions and Answers” Alexandra Schladebeck |
“Test Automation Isn’t All Shiny Toys” Jim Holmes (Telerik) ¹ |
| 16:20–16:40 | Break | ||||
| 16:40–17:40 | “Product Management using Effect Maps” Gojko Adzic |
“TDD with Mock Objects: Design Principles and Emerging Properties” Luca Minudel |
“Agile on huge banking mainframe legacy systems. Is it possible?” Christian Bendix Kjær Hansen |
“Automated testing of complex service oriented architectures” Alexander Grosse & Alexander Schwartz |
Talk 5.4 |
| 17:40–18:40 | Room F2–F3 Keynote: “Appendix A: Lessons Learned since Agile Testing Was Published” Lisa Crispin & Janet Gregory |
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| 18:40–18:45 | Closing Session | ||||
| 19:00–23:00 | Chill Out/Award Event | ||||
Conference (Day 2) – November 16, 2011
| Time | Room F2–F3 | Room F1 | Room E1–E2 | Room D2–D4 | Room E3 (Vendor Track) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:00–09:25 | Registration | ||||
| 09:25–09:30 | Opening | ||||
| 09:30–10:30 | Room F2–F3 Keynote: “People and Patterns” Esther Derby |
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| 10:30–11:30 | “About testers and garbage men” Stefaan Luckermans |
“ATDD and SCRUM Integration from a traditional Project methodology” Raquel Jimenez-Garrido |
“Test automation beyond GUI testing” Dr. Hartwig Schwier |
“Micro-Benchmark Framework: An advanced solution for Continuous Performance Testing” Sven Breyvogel |
“Requirements and Agile: Keeping Up With Change” Peter Varhol (Seapine Software) ¹ |
| 11:30–11:50 | Break | ||||
| 11:50–12:50 | “Do we just Manage or do we Lead?” Stevan Zivanovic |
“Help me following the companies sprint heartbeat” Patrice Willemot |
“Make your automated regression tests scalable, maintainable, and fun by using the right abstractions” Alexander Tarnowski |
“Beyond Page Objects – Building a robust framework to automate testing of a multi-client, multi-lingual web site” Mike Scott |
Talk 5.6 |
| 12:50–14:20 | Lunch | ||||
| 14:20–15:20 | Room F2–F3 Keynote: “Haiku, Hypnosis and Discovery: How the mind makes models” Elizabeth Keogh |
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| 15:20–16:20 | “A Balanced Test Strategy Strengthens the Team” Anko Tijman |
“Effective Agile Test Management” Fran O’Hara |
“Sustainable quality insurance: how automated integration tests have saved our quality insurance team.” Gabriel Le Van & Patrice France |
“Automate Testing Web of Services” Thomas Sundberg |
“Meet the CAT” Jana Noack (iSQI) ¹ |
| 16:20–16:40 | Break | ||||
| 16:40–17:40 | “Testing your Organization” Andreas Schliep |
“Get your agile test process in control!” Cecile Davis |
“Measuring Technical Debt Using Load Testing in an Agile Environment” Peter Varhol |
“Real loadtesting: WebDriver + Grinder” Vegard Hartmann & Øyvind Kvangardsnes |
Talk 5.8 |
| 17:40–18:40 | Room F2–F3 Keynote: “Five key challenges for agile testers tomorrow” Gojko Adzic |
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Collaboration Day – November 17, 2011
| Time | Room E2+F2 | Room E1 | Room D3–D4 | Room E3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:00–09:25 | Registration | |||
| 09:25–09:30 | Opening | |||
| 09:30–10:30 | Room F3 Keynote: “No More Fooling Around: Skills and Dynamics of Exploratory Testing” Michael Bolton |
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| 10:30–11:30 | Open Space Brett L. Schuchert |
Testing Dojos NOKIA |
Coding Dojos Markus Gaertner, Alex Bepple, Sven Günther and Michael Minigshofer |
TestLab Bart Knaack & James Lyndsay |
| 11:30–11:50 | Break | |||
| 11:50–12:50 | Open Space Brett L. Schuchert |
Testing Dojos NOKIA |
Coding Dojos Markus Gaertner, Alex Bepple, Sven Günther and Michael Minigshofer |
TestLab Bart Knaack & James Lyndsay |
| 12:50–13:50 | Lunch | |||
| 13:50–14:50 | Room F3 Keynote: “Stepping Outside” Lasse Koskela |
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| 14:50–16:50 | Open Space Brett L. Schuchert |
Testing Dojos NOKIA |
Coding Dojos Markus Gaertner, Alex Bepple, Sven Günther and Michael Minigshofer |
TestLab Bart Knaack & James Lyndsay |
| 16:50–17:50 | Room F3 Keynote: “The 7 Duties of Great Software Professionals” Jurgen Appelo |
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| 17:50–18:00 | Closing Session | |||
Exhibitors & Supporters 2011
