Microsoft Quality Assurance Day 2011
02.03.11, 12:09, Msk
On February 22, 2011 the Microsoft company, the center of professional growth CareerLab, SQA Lab held the Microsoft Quality Assurance Day conference which was devoted to questions of quality of the software. The action attracted huge interest - registration was stopped in two weeks prior to its beginning. The conference brought together 150 participants, and the quantity looked online broadcasting was more than 15000 people.
The conference was opened by Brian Keller (Microsoft) - the world expert in the field of management of lifecycle of applications (Application Lifecycle Management) and the Visual Studio. "Quality of software – result of team work" and "Exploratory testing: industrial approach" subjects of reports of Brian. He focused attention on how it is important to manage lifecycle of software development in the Visual Studio 2010, relying on certain principles and methods.
"The modern software becomes more difficult, and its development is even more often conducted by big dispersed teams of professionals – managers, developers and testers, each of which has different experience and skills. All these components should work well together and if it not so, in a system problems with quality creep in. Therefore it is very important to pay attention to process of testing at the earliest stages and to use the correct technologies of quality improvement of development and testing", – Brian Keller told.
After Brian Alexander Orlov (Club of Successful Managers of Programmers) acted. "A human factor in QA" - a subject of its report. Alexander shared 6 years' experience of management of commands in the most different projects (from projects, small commercial product to large open source) in Intel and SUN Microsystems, Inc companies. Also Alexander told about specifics of the organization and work of QA commands in domestic IT the companies.
The conference was continued by Sela Group with the report "Migration with HP QC on Microsoft TFS 2010. Tools, practicians, examples of successful implementation". In the performance Sela paid attention to the solutions existing today, in particular Scrat (the tool for migration created by Sela Technology Center) which allow the companies using Quality Center to pass with the smallest losses to Microsoft TFS 2010.
Further Vladimir Gusarov (Quest Software) and Dmitry Andreyev (Microsoft) held master classes. Vladimir told how to include testing in the general development process (on the example of use of Microsoft Test and Lab Managment), and Dmitry shared information on prevention, diagnostics and error correction at software development in the Visual Studio of 2010.
"It is very pleasant to me that last action confirmed relevance of a subject of software testing and technologies of quality improvement of development and testing. The number of the people who visited MS QA Days and looked a conference in online confirms it. Especially pleased that how many people remained on a Q&A session. It is easy to provide a packed house at the beginning of the conference, but it is very pleasant when after the whole day, there is a most part of audience to have an opportunity still to communicate to experts", – Dmitry Andreyev, Microsoft, Russia noted.
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