Software Education Finalises International Line Up for STANZ 2010

Software Education has added two more international speakers to the line up for its 9^th annual Software Testing Australia/New Zealand (STANZ) conference, being held in Wellington on 23–24 August and in Sydney on 26–27 August 2010.

The addition of Mark Micallef, QA Team Leader with BBC Future Media and Technology in the UK and Henrik Andersson, Founder & Consultant with House of Test in Sweden, takes the total number of international speakers to five.

Mark Micallef (UK)
BBC Future Media and Technology
Mark is a software Quality Assurance and Test Automation specialist with BBC Future Media and Technology. With around 65 million daily hits, the BBC News website is one of the most popular in the world. Mark’s keynote will look at how his team overhauled the underlying architecture as well as the look and feel of this site during a particularly busy year of major events (think Winter Olympics, Formula 1, UK Election, World Cup, etc).

Henrik Andersson (Sweden)
Founder and Consultant, House of Test
Henrik is a leading European consultant in the field of testing in Scrum environments and the use of Exploratory Testing. He will deliver a keynote examining how and where things can go wrong in an Agile environment (and how to set them right) and a workshop designed to help participants make the move to Exploratory Testing with a minimum of disruption to the overall test process.

Other international speakers previously announced are Scott Barber, Rex Black and Dawn Haynes:

Scott Barber (USA)
Chief Technologist of PerfTestPlus
Executive Director of the Association for Software Testing, co-founder of the Workshop on Performance and Reliability and co-author of Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications, Scott is widely recognised as a thought-leader in software performance testing. Scott will deliver a keynote and workshop on performance testing in Wellington and Sydney.

Rex Black (USA)
President RBCS
Immediate past President of the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) and co-author of the ISTQB Foundation and Advanced Syllabus, Rex is a perennial favourite at STANZ. Rex will present a keynote on the management of test automation and a workshop which examines the future of test management.

Dawn Haynes (USA)
Senior Trainer and Consultant for PerfTestPlus
With over 20 years of experience supporting, administering, developing and testing software and hardware systems, Dawn is a highly-regarded trainer of software trainers and a Director of the Association for Software Testing. Dawn will deliver a keynote examining the issues around team dysfunction and a workshop which will discuss strategies to ensure the robustness of software.

Run over two days in each location, this conference is recognised as Australasia’s premier software testing conference. As Dorothy Graham, UK-based Software Testing expert and past presenter at STANZ says:

“You can’t get a better testing conference unless you travel to the other side of the world!”

Visit www.softed.com for more details.

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