Great show again.
For 4 days, SIGiST have put a testing show that exceeded last year by far. With more than 230 participants, 51 companies, 7 tutorials (1-2 days course), the Israeli forum for Testing - SIGiST Israel - have organized the biggest independent testing professional conference in Israel so far.
There were 2 days of professional courses, like performance & load in action, TPI, offshore testing risks and approaches, how to write test cases from requirements phase to end of test design, data base testing, and more. more than 85 people participated!
On the next 2 days, there were 3 parallel tracks on various topics: test management, test design techniques, test automation, test methodology.
Interesting sessions that made a unique appearance and interest in my eyes were of Debi Zylbermann, of Dr. Avi Ofer about metrics, and Dakar Shalom about BPT. you will be able to read about those on www.sigist.org.il in a few days probably.
Another improvement in this conference is that conference participants will be able to download any lecture - as they were audio recorded in sync with slides. Using a Webcast tool by SELA Group, a unique effort was done recording 28 hours of presentations - covering all track sessions. 28 hours of recording were done during the last 2 days, with 22-24 presentations to choose from.
Others, non participants, like SIGiST members and any person interested, will have to pay some amount. I was assured by SELA that SIGiST members will by asked to pay a symbolic amount only for that great service.
Now if you were in the conference, and missed the presentation you heard later on about good things, you can download and hear/see it with speakers voice and Q&A session at the end! What a great improvement for the conference services, and the testing community.
Awards: best presentation award was won by Danny Kovach, expert in Agile/Scrum for his presentation about the role of QA engineer and QA manager in an Agile world. Among the 3 best presentations were also Debi Zylbermann and Michael Stahl.
Sponsors were : QualiSystems, Aqua SW, Microsoft, RadView, iSQI, ITCB, SELA Group. Supporting organizations were: D&H, Testing Experience (magazine), Testing & Finance, Conquest, Gasq.
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