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CAST 2009

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The Association for Software Testing

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Welcome to CAST 2009! The 4th Annual Conference of the Association for Software Testing

July 13 – 16, 2009

Held in Colorado Springs, CO at the elegant Antlers Hilton Hotel


CAST - Conference of the Association for Software Testing

Designed to bring software testers from around the globe to learn from each other

Gives testers the chance to share their thoughts and ideas with:

Innovators Trainers Authors Peers



CAST sets itself apart from the rest through excellencein the following areas:

CAST puts the CONFER back in conference

CAST is free from thinly veiled sales pitches

CAST contains up-to-date content

CAST presentations are theme oriented...



The theme for CAST 2009 is...

“Serving Our Stakeholders”

The people we test software for are our stakeholders, and CAST 2009 invites you to

come learn how to better serve them!



When you attend CAST, you're helping

advance the understanding and practice of

software testing, not only within your

organisation, but around the globe!


CAST 2009 Presenters

Dr. Jonathan Koomey Gerald “Jerry” Weinberg Mike Dwyer Dr. Cem Kaner James Bach Scott Barber & Dawn Haynes Fiona Charles & Michael Bolton


CAST 2009 Tutorials

Dr. Jonathan Koomey

Project Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Consulting Professor at Stanford University

Tutorial: Turning Numbers Into Knowledge: Honing Your Analytical Skills


CAST 2009 Tutorials

Gerald “Jerry” Weinberg

Established the first specialised software testing group for Project Mercury

Author of The Psychology of Computer Programming

Tutorial: Ensuring Testing’s Proper Place in the Organisation

Demonstrate the value of testing vs. cost; Find point of influence within your organisation and learn how to cope

with them; Communicate with executives; and, How to evaluate risk and make it real


CAST 2009 Tutorials

Mike Dwyer

Principal Agile Coach with BigVisible Solutions

Founder of 3SidedCoin

Tutorial: Experiencing Agile Integration

Hands-on experience of being part of an Agile team to meet changing objectives in a time-constrained environment;

Hands-on experience integrating testers and testing into an Agile team;

Participation in a simulation scaling small Agile teams into a larger, more complex "team of teams";


CAST 2009 Tutorials

Dr. Cem Kaner

17 Years Experience in the Silicon Valley software industry

Professor of Software Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology

Tutorial: Metrics, Qualitative Measurement, and Stakeholder Value

A facilitated discussion which yields a list of important questions; A brief review on traditional measurements; A review of traditional measurement theory, with an emphasis on

validity and threats to validity; and An overview of qualitative measurement, as well as how to apply

this measurement on the job.


CAST 2009 Tutorials

James Bach

Self-Taught software programmer & tester

Author of Secrets of a Buccaneer Scholar

Tutorial: Teach YOURSELF Software Testing

How to sort through differing schools of testing; The entry points for personal testing education; A syllabus of software testing concepts; How to identify, articulate, and test your own heuristics; and, How to assess your progress


CAST 2009 Tutorials

Scott Barber & Dawn Haynes

Scott Barber is the Chief Technologist of PerfTestPlus

Dawn Haynes is a senior trainer and consultant for PerfTestPlus

Tutorial: Translating Stakeholders' Performance Desires

How to take what a stakeholder says and translate that into actual performance desires


CAST 2009 Tutorials

Fiona Charles & Michael Bolton

Co-founder of the Toronto Workshop on Software Testing

Regular contributors to Better Software magazine

Tutorial: Testing Your Testing: Determining Risks

Explore strategies for identifying stakeholders and how they tell us about their risks;

Discuss the kinds of questions that need to be asked in order to better assess those risks, as well as look at sample questions to better understand different contexts; and,

Examine a process for conducting a risk assessment workshop that has been proven useful in the banking, retail, and health care industries


CAST 2009 – Special Tutorial

BBST Instructor Training

This workshop will use presentations, lectures, and hands-on exercises to address the challenges of teaching online

Becky Fiedler, Scott Barber and Cem Kaner will host the Live! AST Instructors Orientation Course Jumpstart Tutorial On July 17, 2009.

As a certified instructor you can offer the course for AST credit (through AST for free), for your company, or on your own. You or your company can charge fees without paying AST any royalties or other fees.


CAST 2009

Three Tiers of Pricing Available:

Member Non-Member Student

Tutorial Only $655 $795 $425

Conference Only

$745 $895 $515

Conference + Tutorial

$1135 $1295 $875


Group & Student

Discounts Available!


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