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SQC-UK 20008
29th and 30th September 2008
QEII Conference Centre, Westminster, London
Tutorials: 1st October 2008
Institute of Mechanical Engineers, Birdcage Walk

The SQC-UK conference has continued to grow year on year since its inception in 2002. In 2007, 490 people attended.

The theme for the conference this year is "The role of testing in improving productivity".

Productivity - the effectiveness of productive effort – Oxford Dictionary

The second issue of the "testing experience" came out three weeks ago. In this time we have achieved around 40,000 downloads from around the world.

Please go to the website www.testingexperience.com and have a look on the magazine. If you are interested on writing an article or setting up an advert, contact the editorial staff.

Enjoy the magazine.

Regards

José

TaicPart is a joint commercial/academic conference and it's been a pleasure to sponsor the event last year and will be again in 2008.

I've articulated the thinking behind the Testing Axioms in a paper (that I obviously hope to present to the TaicPart community). My submitted paper on Test Axioms as Thinking Tools can be found here.

I hope the 70+ academics critically assess the Axioms as I have stated them and give me feedback.

Thanks to all who attended my session at the TMF on Wednesday. The immediate action that came out of the discussion was to run a one day workshop to define the scope and objectives for such a framework. We have a great team of six folk to work with me on that. I'll publish the date for this soon and the results will be put onto an open forum so that all TMF members can be kept in touch and contribute accordingly. Thanks again for the support and lets get something useful in place to support our industry's career growth.

James Lyndsay is offering free places on this course:
Good testers need to be able to go beyond simply logging a problem. To give value to their stakeholders and integrate with their development teams, testers need to be able to investigate the problems that they find. Diagnostic skills will help a tester to isolate genuine problems from a rash of symptoms, to work out what lies behind field reports, and to communicate her bugs effectively by describing plausible models.

During a presentation at the TMF on 30/04/2008 this boldly provocative statement appeared on a slide: "Testing Equals Quality".

Many thanks to Colin Robb of HP for your hospitality yesterday evening, which furthered a good discussion at the end of the TMF.
Martin Jamieson.