Dear Conference guests and speakers,I am very happy to announce that the Israel International SW Test Conference hasbecome our tradition, and I am proud to present you the 2008 Conference program.

The great success of the first Israel International SW Test Conferencelast year compels us to have an even better conference this year.Meeting this expectation is a big challenge, but I believe we havesuccessfully accomplished this goal, and you will really enjoyparticipating in the tutorials, keynotes and track presentationsdelivered by leading experts from Israeli and International companies.

The program represents the main ideas, trends and achievements

SIGiST Israel Conference 2008, Opening Words, Alon LinetzkiDear SIGiST members, colleagues, honorable guests, ladies and gentleman.

It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to join SIGiST Israel Conference 2008. We hada great year for the testing forum, a year with new and different peoplejoining in to the community, a year with great professional meetings,and a year that is conveying a message SIGiST Israel is givingprofessionals a different perspective, and the community is gainingknowledge.

In 2008, we are starting the WGs new scheme (announced on Marchevent), launching the Testing News letter, building up a new SIGiST

Israel website, and adding a few more surprises to us the testing community.

On the international arena, we have signed cooperation agreements with a few SIGcommunities around the world, among them ASQF (Germany), iSQI (Germany) and a fewmore are on the way. It means that we get benefits on the events planned by these interestgroups, and you as members get the same benefits as their members, and vice versa.

This year, we diversified the international team of the conference a little bit, and invitedVipul Kocher, from India, to give a visionary keynote, we have Mieke Geverse, from Belgium,to train us on her long years professional work on performance and load (with hands onexamples using a real performance and load tool), and Anne Mette, from Denmark, whois the president of the iNTCCM (international configuration management certification board),is coming to give first course and certification about the topic. Of course Bernard Homes,from France, on Successful offshore testing.

Presentations days are with very high quality, presenters are with a lot of experience, andthat means we are expecting the best testing conference ever!

I would like to call all those who are not members yet of this great community, to take agood decision and join in come and share your experiences, get together with other testersand test managers, and keep yourself updated in all the hot testing issues around the year.

Last but not least, let me thank SIGiST main sponsors this year, ITCB and SELA Group.They have helped making this event very professional and attractive to us in SIGiST Israeland to all the testing community. A special thank you to Yan Baron, Program Chair, andDebi Zylbermann, WGs Leader (and the new SIGiST Israel executive board member) thatare on the board with me, working hard for preparing this SIG event and the rest of theactivities for the community.

Test the conference out, it is your profession and obligation.

Kind regards,Alon LinetzkiSIGiST Israel Chair

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The SIGiST Israel StorySIGiST Israel was founded in June 2000, by Mr. Alon Linetzki, and was self sponsored,for the first few meetings. Today, after many meetings, out of which several weresponsored by RadView, Rational (IBM) and Mercury (HP-Software), SIGiST Israel isthe most reorganized testing community in the Israeli market. The SIGiST board todayincludes also Mr. Yan Baron, Director PLM Testing & Field Operations, Aternity, andMrs. Debi Zylbermann, senior consultant in software quality assurance and websitepromotion.

SIGiST Israel meets every quarter; meetings are usually sponsored by testing companies,quality assurance companies and tool vendor companies. Once a year, SIGiST Israelis conducting its yearly conference, and invites international speakers and Israelitesting community speakers to discuss hot testing topics.

SIGIST Israel purpose and goals are to create a place in Israel were testing professionalscan meet, speak on common issues, suggest solutions to common problems, and bea place were they can come up with a request for an answer, and get it! It aims to bethe driving force and the trigger for recognition for the testing profession in Israel andis hoping to increase the awareness toward certification for the different levels oftesting (using ISTQB certification scheme).

Today, SIGiST Israel is the strongest testing forum in the Israeli testing community,committed to bring the best knowledge on testing world-wide and to cooperate withother SIGiST boards around the world to achieve that.

of our Israel testing society, and demonstrates the high level of testing in Israel.

This conference will be another significant contribution from SiGIST and ITCB to ourmain mission to continually improve the professional level of Israeli software testing.I’m looking forward to seeing more and more Israeli test experts joining our Conference,year after year

Yan BaronProgram Chair

TUTORIAL - Day 1-2: 22-23/6/2008 TUTORIAL PROGRAM

Performance & load in actionMieke Gevers, aQis" Instructing to use a testing methodology for Performance testing" Setting up testable objectives for performance on web and non-web environments" Using performance work load models and fine-tune them

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" Highlights and pitfalls about performance testing" Overview of the current performance testing tools" Root cause analysis and results evaluation" Hands-on to put the theory in practice.

Attendees should be familiar with 3-tier environments, incl. Web server and Internet/Intranettechnologies.

Biography:Mieke Gevers has been in the IT industry for 20 years and in December 2006 she co-founded her own company aQis, standing for Agile Quality in Information Systemsproviding a variety of testing services (www.aqis.eu) and she is also currently BusinessDevelopment Manager for Metastore, Belgium.

Mieke started her career as a software developer, later moving on to various positionsas an analyst, project manager and, ultimately, QA Manager for several differentcompanies in the Benelux region and Germany. Until last year she has been with SegueSoftware, Borland for more than eight years rising from Technical Sales Engineer,Technical Manager, EMEA/APAC, Alliance Architect EMEA/APAC to Solution Architect,EMEE at Borland.

Mieke has a special interest in the techniques, processes and project management,specifically with automated testing tools. Mieke is a regular conference speaker throughoutEurope, the United States, Asia and Australia and EuroSTAR’s country coordinator forBelgium and a team member of EuroSTAR committee 2007

TPI in a day

Q-patterns for reusable test cases

Writing test documents - from requirements reviewto test procedures

Data bases testing

Automation practices

Successful offshore testing

Nancy ClaymanNCQA

Vipul KocherPureTesting

Michael StahlINTEL

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Biography:Anne Mette Jonassen Hass, M.Sc.C.E., has worked in IT since 1980, since 1995 asa consultant in DELTA. She holds ISEB Foundation and Practitioner Certificates inSoftware Testing, and has been secretary of the Danish SIGST since 1997. She ispresident of the iNTCCM, and a frequent speaker at international conferences.

Ms. Hass is author of “Configuration Management Principles and Practice”, Addison-Wesley. She has developed the team-game “Process Contest” and created the posters"... at a Glance - or two" for "SoftwareTesting" and "Configuration Management"

" Configuration management planning" Automation of configuration management" Improving configuration management

Among other things, this course will prepare you to take the internationally acknowledgedcertification in configuration management by iNTCCM.The qualification scheme is aimed at anyone directly involved in configurationmanagement. This means all active in specific configuration management roles suchas CM-managers, -librarians, or -consultants. Also people involved in development andusage of components under configuration management during development, verificationand validation activities, testing activities, and during deployment/operations of thosecomponents, as project managers, quality managers, software development managers,business analysts, IT directors and management consultants will benefit from the coursebased on this qualification scheme.

The International Certified Configuration Manager Association, iNTCCM, was foundedin April 2006 in Denmark. The association membership includes Bulgaria, Denmark,France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, and the Netherlands

Application security testing in the distributed worldEmmanuel Cohen -Yashar, SELAThe SOA concept is becoming popular and thus, more and moreapplications are designed as a composition of services. This createsagility, promote reuse but brings many new challenges in the securityarena.

Configuration managementAnne Mette Jonassen Hass, DeltaThe course will cover the following topics: " Fundamentals of configuration management" Configuration management activities" Configuration management organization

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In this talk we will discuss those challenges and focus on testing procedures that shouldbe a part of any distributed composite application test plan.

Distributed application uses different kinds of infrastructure. Each has its own view aboutsecurity.We will look at important pieces of infrastructure like WCF for connectivity, BizTalk(ESB) for integration, WF for orchestration and SharePoint for Human Business services.We will discuss each infrastructure security model and understand how to combinethose to a holistic model for our systems.

Designing a security model for a system which is actually a composition of many othersystems and services with their own security model is not a trivial task.Testing such a model is much more difficult. We will discuss this issue with a focus onpractical guidance to be implemented.

Distributed composite applications demands attention in application security designimplementation and testing. This talk is designed to help you do that.

Biography:Manu Cohen-Yashar has 18 years experience in the computer industry and served invarious positions as speaker, trainer, programmer and development manager. His mainexpertises are - .NET technologies and security. He was involved in training programmersand managers on how to write secure code.

Today, he serves as a practical and managerial consultant and a trainer at Sela. Manuhas a B.Sc. in Computer Science and an Electronic Engineering degree from theTechnion.

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Biography:Nancy Clayman provides practical, proven expertise to software companies worldwide.An innovative, results-driven IT executive with 20 years internationalexperience directing software.

QA and technical groups in multiple locations worldwide, Nancy has a consistent recordof achievement defining and implementing comprehensive software lifecyclemethodologies, evaluation, definition and application of process improvement projects,tool implementation and management and motivation of local and distributed teams;for startups as well as established companies.

Nancy currently acts as an independent consultant; providing training, mentoring,recruiting and auditing services.

TPI in a dayNancy Clayman, NCQAThis workshop is for QA/Test Managers who would like to apply theTPI (Test Process Improvement) model in their own organization.The model identifies 20 key areas to be considered for improvement.It offers a structured approach, so that gradual changes are made

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which have a positive and measurable impact and are within constraints.

This workshop includes presentations, discussion and practical exercises.Upon completion, participants will understand the principles of the TPI Model and howto implement it.

ahead of time and stored in a repository of test case templates, developed for requirementsand design reviews or built in real-time as a way to both guide and document exploratorytesting sessions. See examples of Q-Patterns that have been developed for errormessages, combo boxes, login screens, and list handling. Learn how to associaterelated Q-Patterns and aggregate them into hierarchical and Web models. Take backthe beginnings of Q-Patterns for your test team and organization.

" Sharable and reusable test case designs" Templates to organize requirements and design reviews" A tool for capturing exploratory testing experiences.

Biography:Vipul Kocher has more than a dozen years of testing experience including managingof Acrobat Reader on multiple platforms. He has led teams for various types of productson various technologies including networking, client-server, mobile devices and desktopapplications. He is also the president of India Testing Board, an ISTQB approvednational board of India.

He holds a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering and Masters Degree in ComputerTechnology from IIT Delhi.

He has presented papers and tutorial in various international conferences. His papershave won best paper award at STAREast 2006 and EuroStar2005 Logica CMG Triplestar award for "most original contribution".

Q-patterns for reusable test casesVipul Kocher, PureTestingYou can think of Q-Patterns as a structured set of questions (tests)about the different aspects of a software application under test. Theyare questions about the system that are categorized, grouped, sorted,and saved for reuse. These Q-Pattern questions can be written

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The "Writing Test Documents" seminar takes the participant through the stages ofwriting quality test documents.

The course interleaves theory and hands-on work. The participants will review arequirement document for a simple application. They will then use the requirementsdocument to generate Test Plan and Test Procedures to test the application.The final session is a test session, where the participants use their test cases to testthe application.

Bugs are counted to see who found most bugs with tests he/she developed during thecourse. "Best Bug" and "Highest Bug Count" winners will get a prize.

The course covers the following topics:" Requirements Review - What to look for; what is the tester's role" The Test Plan Document - Why we need it and what should be its content" Test Procedure Document - correct way of specifying a Test Case

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Database Testing Concepts: Database Applications. Testing at the Database layer.Testing Front-end. Testing the Back-end. Examples of database bugs.Relational Database concepts: What is a relational database? Tables and Relationships.Normalization and Denormalization. SQL basics. Introduction to MySQL database.

Testing the databases: Different types of bugs in database testing. Using SQL to createand test data. Database testing tools. Performance testing the databases.

Basics of: Database migration testing. Data warehouse testing. It will be full day tutorialand attendees are expected to bring their own laptop. Software environment to conductthe tests will be provided and will need to be copied and installed usinga CD/US.

Data bases testingVipul Kocher, PureTestingThis tutorial will teach hands-on database testing using an open-source application on MySQL database and some of the open-source tools.

The user will be taken through the following topics:

Writing test documents - from requirements reviewto test proceduresMichael Stahl, INTELIn many cases, testers are "thrown to the water" and asked to "Writea Test Plan and a Test Procedure" without getting proper trainingon how this should be done.

Biography:Michael Stahl is a Senior SW test engineer at Intel.An 18 years veteran, Michael is a Software Validation Architect in Intel's Mobile WirelessGroup, validating the software that controls the wireless component of Intelís Centrinoplatform.

Before starting his career in SW testing (in 2000), Michael worked at Intelís manufacturingfacility in Jerusalem, Israel, as a chip-level test engineer.Michael is a member of the Executive Board of the Israeli Test Certification Board(ITCB), and chairs the Advisory board of this organization.

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Biography:Ziv Harpaz is a R&D Director at BMC Software.Ziv got his education at the Technion, were he received his BA and MSc in ComputerScience, and after that did several roles of developer and team leader.

At his current capacity as a management member in a $170M LOB, Ziv is deeplyinvolved in all aspects of the development procedures of a business critical product:requirements, specification, design, development, testing, etc.

Most of the applications were meant to be used by people, and thus, do not lendthemselves for easy access to the automatic testing code. How do we find or generateappropriate access points? How do we maintain the compatibility?" SetupBefore a test can run, the OUT (Object Under Test) must be in place, connected toother components it collaborates with, and loaded with settings and data. Who isresponsible for it? When is it being set?" ExecutionSoon enough you will have thousands of tests and many different testing configurations.How do we run each test on the correct configuration? How do we update ourconfigurations without changing the tests?" AnalysisAs we run the tests again and again, it should be easy to locate the†error from theinformation that a failed test produces. Who is performing this analysis? How do weavoid running the whole test batch again?" MaintenanceThe holy grail of automatic testing is low maintenance cost. It has two parts (1) nearzero cost for running the tests, and (2) low cost to maintain the tests through applicationdevelopment.How do we avoid a major tests re-write due to technology changes?

Automation practicesZiv Harpaz, BMCA comprehensive solution to testing automation needs to handle,among others, the following elements: Development, Setup,Execution, Analysis, and Maintenance." Development

Often offshore risks are not taken into account, either due to involuntary blindness orunawareness. This tutorial, based on experience gained with different customers, aims atevaluating the different risks and suggesting mitigation solutions to minimize the risks andmaximize the chances of success of outsourced projects.

Upon completion of this course the participant will be able to address the principal topicsof successful offshoring of services and/or goods, from both perspectives (”offshoring to”and “offshoring from”).

" Offshore Software development: > Market, Reasons, Locations > Comparison tomanufacturing" Selected risks & solutions: > Offshore risks, (hidden risks) > Contractual risks > Hiddenrisks > Internal risks" Successful examples" Suggested mitigating actions: > Contractual aspects > Project & Product risks > Independentevaluation" Now what can be done? > During early program phase > About the RFP > During contractnegotiation > During program execution > Offshoring tests" Parting words and Lessons learned

Biography:After 25+ years in software development and testing with different consultancies, BernardHomes set up the TESSCO group in Europe and Canada. Founder and principal consultantfor TESSCO Technologies inc., Bernard is also member of the IEEE board in France andparticipant in various IEEE standards association workgroups.

After helping a major Canadian customer in setting up a test centre specializing in softwarecertification, then providing consultancy services for a major French telecom company andfor a French satellite solutions providers, Bernard now provides Project Quality Assuranceservices to a major helicopter manufacturer.

Successful offshore testingBernard Homes, TesscoOffshoring and subcontracting offshore becomes more and more attractive,mostly for financial reasons. Whether one is “offshoring to” or “offshoringfrom” risks are present and must be managed.

A speaker at a number of international conferences and universities, Bernard also providessoftware testing trainings and consultancy services worldwide.

Bernard has been elected president of the CFTL, the French Software Testing Board, andchairs the Advanced Level syllabus Working Party of the ISTQB.

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Key note 1Break

Track session 1Psychology behind testmanagementYaron TsuberyComverse

Business processtestingDakar ShalomConsultant

Regression testoptimizationMotti AvrahamiTestPro

BreakTrack session 2

LunchKey note 2

Test process improvement Test managementBeta testing - thesecrets of successLonny BaskinINTEL

Track session 3

BreakBattle for the mouse:The Art of ATPDr. Avi OferINTEL

Developing test casesfrom UML diagramsOfer PratBMC

Future testingShlomi AmarTestPro

Track session 4

Test metricsWhere we are? Statusand progress IndicatorsDr. Avi OferINTEL

Test management

Bug hunt testingAmos UzanBMC

Test design & techniquesDesigning aperformance testOmri LapidotDelver

SQA onlinedashboardShiri GalPolycom

Scrum - roles &responsibilities of the QADanny (Danko) KovatchSELA Group

Pair-wise & automatictest cases generationRan LuzzattoBMC

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SIGiST testing expo

Alon Linetzki, SIGiST Israel ChairDudu Bassa, CEO, SELA Group

Alon Linetzki, SIGiST Israel Chair

Alon Linetzki, SIGiST Israel ChairYaron Tsubery, President, ITCB

Software Testing: Present problems and future solutions, Vipul Kocher, PureTesting, IndiaKey note session (not defined yet)

Test managementTest design & techniquesTest methodology

Surviving the “crunchtime”: dealing withconstant changeKaty Podolner-RotmanAternity

Test management

Light breakfast Registration

Key note session (not defined yet)

Test design & techniques

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Testing methodology

SIGiST testing expo

Catching thoserequirements bugs...easilyDebi ZylbermannDebi'Z Consulting Ltd.

Improving the testingprocessMichal TalConsultant

...And you didn’t report it?!roadblocks to bug reportsMichael StahlINTEL

Test automation & tools

Fault Injection andfuzz techniquesShmuel GershonINTEL

Light breakfast

Root cause analysis:dealing with problems,not symptomsAlon LinetzkiSELA Group

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Yaron Tsubery, President, ITCB, Israeli testing excellence award

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“Advanced Testing”, thegateway to softwarequality?Mieke GeversaQis Belgium

Testing and configurationmanagement serve each otherAnne MetteDELTA Denmark

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Alon Linetzki, SIGiST Israel Chair, Best presentation award

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Test planning efficacy:using the right amount of theright planning to produce theright resultsHedy Rashba - NDS

Application securitytesting in the distributedworldEmmanuel Cohen -YasharSELA