Join TSG expert consultants and presenters Stuart Reid and Isabel Evans and learn how to address the challenges and reap the benefits of testing in an agile project. Through four key workshop sessions, gain:
- a better understanding of what is meant by ‘agile’ and how testing fits into this approach;
- insight into the many options available for agile development and testing and guidance on selecting the optimal set for your project;
- an awareness of the skill set required and how to manage team-work challenges for agile testing;
- an understanding of the key factors that make agile such an attractive proposition and guidance on its introduction.
The Four Key Workshop Sessions:
- Introduction to Agile Development and Testing
- Options in Agile Projects
- Managing Agile Teams
- Making the Case for Agile
Stuart Reid is Chief Technology Officer at Testing Solutions Group. He has 25 years’ experience in the IT industry, working in development, testing and education. Application areas range from safety-critical to financial. In addition to his work at TSG, Stuart also supports the worldwide testing community in a number of roles. He is convener of the ISO Software Testing Working Group, which is developing the new ISO 29119 Software Testing standard and is the software testing representative at BSI. He currently chairs the BCS Specialist Group in Software Testing and also chaired the ISEB Software Testing Panel through the initial years of qualification development. Stuart founded the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) to promote software testing qualifications on a global scale and still works on the ISTQB Examination and ISEB and ISTQB Accreditation Panels. A popular speaker at conferences on software testing, he is invited to present keynotes, tutorial and track sessions in Europe, Asia, Australasia, and the US. He chaired EuroSTAR 2007, Europe’s largest ever software testing conference with over 1200 attendees, and he regularly writes articles on software testing for magazines.
Isabel is a Principal Consultant at Testing Solutions Group. She has more than 20 years’ experience in the IT industry, mainly in quality management, testing, training and documentation. Most of her work has supported clients in the financial, communications and software sectors. Her experience as a tester and as a quality consultant provides a practical approach and real-life experiences. Isabel has spoken at conferences worldwide on software quality, testing and test management. Voted best speaker at EuroSTAR 2002 and at BCS SIGiST in 2003, she has provided keynotes and tutorials at conferences in Europe, New Zealand and the USA, and she is a member of the 2009 EuroSTAR programme committee. She has been a member of working parties contributing to improvement in software quality and testing, including the Quality Forum Testing Metrics Forum, the Customer Satisfaction Measurement working party, the BCS SIGIST Test Standards Working Party, and ISEB/ISTQB accreditation and syllabus development boards, currently working on the Expert Level syllabus. Her book, Achieving Software Quality Through Teamwork was published in June 2004.