CAST 2008, Program

We're tremendously excited about the CAST 2008 program and its interdisciplinary topics. Here's a brief overview; follow the links for more information.

Conference Proceedings

Sunday, July 13

	Room: Armoury Suite 2nd Floor
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM	Speakers prep session (Dawn Haynes)

Monday, July 14

	Room: Terrace 3rd Floor	Room: Saint David 3rd Floor	Room: Saint Patrick North 3rd Floor	Room: Saint Patrick South 3rd Floor	Room: 3rd Floor Foyer
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM	Jerry Weinberg: The Tester's Communication Clinic	Scott Barber Performance Testing Software Systems: Analyzing Performance Test Data	Julian Harty Mobile Wireless Test Automation	Hung Nguyen From Craftsmanship to Leadership	Registration
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM	Birds of a Feather: Teaching of Software Testing (Cem Kaner, Becky Fiedler)	Birds of a Feather: AST SIG Meetings (SIG Leads)	Birds of a Feather: Get your questions answered about AST (Michael Kelly)	Open Space	Registration

Tuesday, July 15

	Room: Colony Ballroom 2nd Floor	Room: Saint David 3rd Floor	Room: Saint Patrick 3rd Floor	Room: Terrace 3rd Floor	Room: Colony West
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM	Opening remarks				Registration and sponsors booths
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Jerry Weinberg Lessons from the Past to Carry into the Future				Registration and sponsors booths
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM	Martin Taylor Visualization and Statistical Methods In High Volume Test Automation of Embedded Devices	Michael Bolton and Jonathan Kohl Testing and Music: Parallels in Practice, Skills and Learning	Diane Kelly and Rebecca Sanders The Challenge of Testing Scientific Software	Geordie Keitt Testing electronic voting equipment, the VVSG, and the AST eVoting SIG	Registration and sponsors booths
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM	Robert Sabourin (with Anne Sabourin) Applied Testing Lessons from Delivery Room Labor Triage				Registration and sponsors booths
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM	Doug Hoffman Lessons for Testing from Financial Accounting: Consistency in a self-regulated profession	Jeremy Kominar Sleight-of-Quality : A Magical Approach to Testing	Morven Gentleman Measuring File Systems	Oracle Technology Network Higher Application Quality With Less Effort: Oracle Application Quality Management	Registration and sponsors booths
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	AST Board Of Directors' Election				Registration and sponsors booths
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM	AST Board Of Directors' Meeting				Registration and sponsors booths

Wednesday, July 16

	Room: Colony Ballroom 2nd Floor	Room: Saint David 3rd Floor	Room: Saint Patrick 3rd Floor	Room: Terrace 3rd Floor	Room: Colony West
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM	Opening remarks				Registration and sponsors booths
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Cem Kaner The Value of Checklists and the Danger of Scripts: What Legal Training Suggests for Testers				Registration and sponsors booths
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM	Steve Richardson and Adam Geras Seeking Data Quality: Using Agile Methods to Test a Data Warehouse	Adam White Software Testing To Improv	Lightning Talks: Terse Treatises on Testing Topics	Skytap 8 Steps to a Virtualized Lab Environment	Registration and sponsors booths
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM	Brian Fisher The New Science of Visual Analytics				Registration and sponsors booths
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM	Bart Broekman Testing Fuzzy Interfaces - Can We Learn From Biology And Wargaming?	Adam Goucher Lessons in Team Leadership from Kids in Armor	Scott Barber Testing Lessons From Civil Engineering	Security Innovation How to wreck software and uncover security vulnerabilities with Holodeck	Registration and sponsors booths
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	AST Membership Meeting				Registration and sponsors booths

Thursday, July 17

	Room: Terrace 3rd Floor	Location: Health Sciences Building of the University of Toronto - 155 College Street - Room 106
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM	Jerry Weinberg: The Tester's Communication Clinic	Rebecca Fiedler, Cem Kaner, Scott Barber: Live! AST Instructors’ Orientation Course Jumpstart Tutorial

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