CAST 2008 Sponsors
2008 Conference of the Association for Software Testing Sponsors
Beyond the Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Software Testing
The following organizations are generous sponsors of CAST 2008.
OTN's QA/Testing Community: Learn more about Oracle's testing tools and testing methodology & best practices, industry trends, sample code, tutorials, discussion forums, news, and more.
Developsense, founded and run by Michael Bolton, is based in Toronto, Canada. We teach provide software testing, consulting, and coaching services all over the world.
Hey Otto! is the first 24X7 audio collaboration solution that provides the benefits of affordable reservationless conferencing with the power of a personalized, operator-assisted offering. By speaking with Otto, you and your attendees free yourselves from the "PIN pain" related to audio conferencing. Otto is "Human Powered" so when you speak, he will understand. Imagine being on a conference call, hitting the # key saying "Otto, can you turn on conference recording and please dial out and connect Bob to this conference for me."
Hey Otto! began a limited beta in January 2008. Watch for web and mobile collaboration to be added in Q4, 2008.
LogiGear offers innovative software testing services, including integrated test automation and global resource solutions. Since 1994, LogiGear has created unique solutions that specifically meet the needs of clients in many industries, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to early-stage startups. With facilities in the US and Asia, LogiGear’s solution helps companies increase test coverage, improve software quality, lower testing costs and speed time-to-market. For more information, visit http://www.logigear.com.
LogiGear Corporation
551 Pilgrim Drive
Suite A-1
Foster City, CA 94404 USA
Tel: +1 800 322 0333
Fax: +1 650 572 2822
sales@logigear.com
Rex Black Consulting Services, Inc. (RBCS) delivers insight and confidence to companies, helping them get quality software and hardware products to market on time, with a measurable return on investment. RBCS is both a pioneer and leader in quality hardware and software testing - through ISTQB and other partners we strive to improve software testing practices and have built a team of some of the industry's most recognized and published experts.
RBCS' team of international consultants deliver customized training, consulting, and outsourcing services to companies that are looking to improve their software testing and quality assurance processes. Companies that have leveraged the RBCS team have reduced development and support costs while assuring the best quality products are delivered to customers.
RBCS,Inc
31520 Beck Rd
Bulverde, TX 78163
Phone: +1 (830) 438-4830
Fax: +1 (830) 438-4831
Email: info@rbcs-us.com
Ensuring software quality requires more than just identifying and fixing bugs - it requires use of the correct methodologies, processes and tools throughout the software development lifecycle. SearchSoftwareQuality.com's mission is to educate Application Development Managers, Test/QA managers, Software Project Managers and Business Analysts on the key activities, processes and tools needed to produce and deliver robust, high quality software on time, to specification and within budget.
Skytap is the leading provider of cloud-based virtualization solutions available as secure, on-demand services over the Web. Skytap solutions enable IT and development teams to rapidly develop, test, deploy and manage applications in a virtual environment, dramatically increasing their ability to respond to business needs and shorten time to market, while reducing overhead and cost.
Skytap Virtual Lab is an automated virtual lab management solution available as a service. Skytap’s Virtual Lab offers organizations the ability to provision virtual labs in minutes, automate the set-up and tear-down of complex, multi-tiered environments, and better collaborate across globally distributed teams using shared virtual infrastructure.
Software Quality Engineering assists software professionals and organizations interested in boosting productivity, improving software practices, delivering more customer value, and increasing ROI. Software Quality Engineering hosts three of the industry's most recognized software quality conferences including the STAR conference series and the Better Software Conference & EXPO. Offering a large variety of software training, Software Quality Engineering delivers software improvement methodologies to organizations both large and small. Our team of internationally recognized experts, with hands-on software testing and development experience, develop courses to help both software teams and organizations improve the bottom line. We also produce Better Software magazine and StickyMinds.com-the most comprehensive resources for helping you produce better software-and provide research through our various eNewsletters, books, and other publications. Software Quality Engineering arms you with the power of information.
TEKsystems is a premier technology staffing and services company and is best known for their ability to help businesses implement their technology, whether it’s simply providing an individual or the assumption of responsibility for a discrete project. Ranked by IT Services Business Report as the nation’s largest IT staffing firm, TEKsystems has grown to become a multibillion-dollar company by blending superior client service with an unrivaled ability to source and manage talent to precise specifications. TEKsystems’ core ability to deploy high-caliber IT and communications expertise across a full portfolio of service offerings including Staffing Services, Team Services, Workforce Management Services, and Component Services is unequaled.
TEKsystems, Inc.
7437 Race Road
Hanover, MD 21076
888.835.7978
Tacit Knowledge is an enterprise software consultancy with offices in San Francisco, New York, Moldova, and Guadalajara. We develop custom applications for both Fortune 500 and startups, with a particular emphasis on software stabilization and optimization, continuous deployment, and agile program management.
QA Consultants is the largest Quality Assurance and Testing consultancy in Canada and one of the biggest and most established in North America. This year alone QA Consultants has already successfully delivered over 250 projects. NEW – Many Fortune 1000 companies are now taking advantage of QA Consultants latest offering - Local Testing resources at Offshore prices.
Edista Testing Institute
Edista Testing Institute is setup as an academic intervention built for enabling talent acquisition and talent transformation in Software Testing. Our core focus is to enable interventions of learning, certifications, assessment, and community development, and thus furthering the development of the Software Testing Ecosystem. The institute focuses on creating products, providing services using the learning products and engines, and amplify the same with the use of technology.
ETI also contributes to the development of the ecosystem through an online community Test Republic.
For more information please visit www.edistatesting.com
Edista Testing Institute
#42 100 Feet Road
17th Main 4th Block Koramangala
Bangalore
INDIA 560 034
Mail: corporate@edistatesting.com
Tel: +91 80 41574806 / 07 / 09
Karen N. Johnson, Software Testing Consultant
Karen N. Johnson is a software testing consultant located in Chicago, Illinois. She has extensive experience in software testing and test management. She serves as a Director for the Association for Software Testing and is a program co-chair for the 2007 Conference for the Association for Software Testing. For more information about Karen, visit:
Mentora Group, INC. tests, hosts and manages business applications. We specialize in performance testing of eCommerce sites and ERP suites from Oracle, PeopleSoft and SAP using commercial and open-source tools. We host and manage business-critical applications in eCommerce, Healthcare, Insurance and Oracle Apps. Headquartered in Atlanta, we have offices in Boston and Washington DC.
An independent, third-party organization, MOBIUS LABS is literally the “dream” team you would create to test and certify your software. We are experts who live and breathe the art and science of testing and technology.
Drawing on multi-platform, state-of-the-art equipment, our methodologies are comprehensive, as well as highly time- and cost-effective. They assure your application is absolutely release-ready, to work the way it’s intended to work, without any functional, compatibility, load limiting or other unpleasant user surprises.
Whether your software has been in place for years, or you are introducing a new product tomorrow, MOBIUS LABS can help provide the quality edge that will make your company shine.
Mobius Labs
9229
Delegates Row, Suite 290
Indianapolis, IN. 46240
317-218-7709
eMail: jmelton@mobiuslabs.com
PerfTestPlus offers advising, consulting and training services as well as resources to bring software testing expertise and thought-leadership to organizations seeking to push their testing beyond "state-of-the-practice" to "state-of-the-art." Our testing services are designed and delivered by name-brand testing professionals who subscribe to our integrity driven, value focused philosophy."
Sirius Software Quality Associates provides a one of a kind suite of tools designed from the ground up to support exploratory and manual testing. Their complete end to end solution, TestExplorer, covers all aspects of manual testing, from charter management to test recording and execution, with integrated defect management, metrics, and trend analysis. Sirius SQA also provides consulting and training in support of all aspects of software testing.
SoftwareTestingHelp.com is a blog purely focused on software testing and quality assurance. We have many articles on manual and automation testing, helping testing professionals in their day to day testing life. SoftwareTestingHelp.com is now having worldwide reader base of more than 4000 software testing professionals. This is a testers community helping each other to advance in their career and learning advanced software testing practices.
Tejas Software Consulting
Danny R. Faught, proprietor of Tejas Software Consulting, is an independent consultant, trainer, and author who helps organizations manage the quality of their software. Danny focuses on efficient exploratory testing and practical test automation. He is also the maintainer of testingfaqs.org, a resource for test tools, conferences, courses, and consultants.
testingReflections.com is your one-stop for software testing blogs, aggregating many of the best blogs and articles on software testing from around the web into one convenient place. Established in 2004, testingReflections.com now contains nearly 4000 blog articles covering functional testing, performance testing, unit testing, test-driven development and just about all things 'Software Testing'...
"testingReflections keeps up with the most interesting testing blogs so I don't have to. I come for the feeds, and stay for the comments." -James Bach
testingReflections.com
The Software-Testing Community's knowledge-hub of the web
Workroom Productions is a London-based consultancy, formed in 1994 by James Lyndsay, specialising in software test strategy.
Centro de Ensayos de Software
www.ces.com.uyThe CES blends academic methods, proven industry practices, and the experiences of their staff and alliances to deliver exceptional software testing services including:
Consulting: We'll advise your company in testing process improvement, testing strategy, test automation.
Training: We develop and deliver custom training for undergarduates, postgraduages, and professional teams in various areas of software testing.
Testing: We'll test your applications in an effective and deliberate manner based on your context and objectives while focusing on your business risks and needs.
At the CES, we are dedicated to leveraging all of the resources available through our staff, the university, and our allilances to not only exceed our clients expectations on individual contracts, but to look beyond individual contracts to build lasting relationships that benifit both the CES and our clients.
Inflectra™
www.inflectra.comInflectra™ is a privately held software company dedicated to helping our customers - large corporations, small businesses, professional services firms, government agencies and individual developers – with the means to effectively and affordably manage their software development lifecycles, so as to decrease the time to market and increase return on investment.
SpiraTest™ is a powerful Quality Assurance and Project Management solution that manages a software project’s requirements, scope, use-cases, tests, releases and bugs and issues in one environment, with complete requirements traceability throughout. Customers can track every bug or issue back to the test case and test step that being executed, and from there back to the underlying requirement needing fulfillment.
For more information please visit us online at http://www.inflectra.com
The KWSQA (Kitchener-Waterloo Software Quality Association) is a community of software professionals from firms in the Kitchener-Waterloo region of Ontario, Canada interested in the investigation and discussion of software quality topics, with a special emphasis on providing software professionals with a means of sharing their experiences.
The Association encourages the membership and participation of students entering the field of software development, software quality and software engineering; as well as researchers interested in the advancement of software quality.
NVP Software Testing
www.nvp-inc.comNVP Software Testing, Inc., provides industry-leading software quality assurance and testing services, customized to address client's business requirements. These services are provided by qualified talent utilizing modern industry standards and proven best practices to provide exceptional value to clients. NVP offers Consulting, Management, Automation, and Training and Mentoring services.
NVP Software Testing
314 Queen Street South, Suite 111
Bolton, Ontario
L7E 4Z9
1-800-811-4718
www.nvp-inc.com
Software Test & Performance Magazine
Software Test & Performance is the leading magazine for test/QA professionals. STP is published monthly and reaches more than 25,000 software development managers, project and team leaders, and Test & QA managers. STP helps readers improve the efficiency of their individual and teams software QA and testing processes, as well as help them improve the performance of their in-house applications pre- and post-deployment. Apply for a FREE subscription at www.stpmag.com.
For more information please visit us online at http://www.stpmag.com
Solution Delivery Partners Inc.
www.sdp-inc.comSDP takes a simple approach to delivering client success: Educate - Demonstrate - Execute. We provide a unique educational experience for IT professionals by breaking away from traditional delivery formats. While SDP instructors will deliver the fundamentals of IT throughout the course of training, we specialize in interactive, customized workshops to suit your needs. We then provide hands-on mentorship programs to help individuals apply knowledge gained to real-world circumstances. Finally, through our strategic partnerships we can assist organizations in critical areas such as designing, building and delivering business-driven technology solutions, software tool evaluations and support (HP Mercury, IBM Rational & Compuware), and web design, development and testing. SDP is committed to being your partner in success.
For more information please visit us online at http://www.sdp-inc.com or contact us:
Phone: 614-734-8552
e-mail: info@sdp-inc.com
The Toronto Association of Systems and Software Quality (TASSQ) was established in 1993 as an organization for testing and quality assurance professionals. TASSQ sponsors monthly dinner meetings to share quality practices and to provide an opportunity for networking The meetings feature international-calibre speakers on topics including testing, project management, risk management, measurement of client satisfaction, other metrics related topics, process improvement, implementing quality practices. Presentations are followed by lively discussion. TASSQ's mandate is to appeal to anyone who has an interest in software quality, whether they work for a large corporation, test in small software house, or are independent consultants.
TestersDesk.com from ValueMinds Solutions
www.testersdesk.comTestersDesk.com is an Online Toolbox/Platform for Software Testers. It provides Online Tools FREE to use, that testers can leverage to increase Test Productivity in the areas of Test Design/Construction, Test Data Generation, Test Diagnosis and many other miscellanous areas of Test Engineering.
The philosphy of www.testersdesk.com is to research-innovate-implement-consolidate a series of system-independent online tools that Software Testers can use, there by creating a one-stop tool platform for the betterment of Software Test Engineering. TestersDesk.com is a complimentary function to everything and every tool in Software Testing, and intends to provide lateral support.
The Online Platform is developed by ValueMinds Solutions, that also performs consultation services and training (through the name TECHTEACH) in Hyderabad, India.
For more information please visit us online at http://www.testersdesk.com or contact Ashwin Palaparthi at
Phone: +91-9963113399
Email:ap@valueminds.com
Quardev Laboratories (www.quardev.com) is an outsource software testing and technical writing company in Seattle. Quardev focuses on onshore solutions for rapid exploratory and testing and technical writing contracts. Jon Bach, a recognized expert in exploratory testing and Test Lead management, is Quardev's Corporate Intellect Manager and lead consultant.
For more information please visit us online at http://www.quardev.com
