QA&TEST, the International Conference on QA and Testing Software for Embedded Systems, will hold the 8th edition on 21, 22 and 23 October in Bilbao, Spain. The Programme of QA&TEST, conformed by 2 tutorials, 3 keynotes and 20 presentations, will join renowned world-wide experts in Testing and QA Software, like Mary Poppendieck, Dr. Bruce Douglass form IBM and Guillaume Brat, form NASA.

Dr. Bruce Douglass, Chief Evangelist for IBM, will give the opening keynote of the Conference. Dr. Douglass has more than 30 years of experience designing safety-critical real-time applications in a variety of hard real-time environments. He has designed and taught courses in object-orientation, real-time and safety-critical systems development. Dr. Douglass has written over a hundred magazine articles and is a well-known author of technical books, like Real-Time UML Workshop for Embedded Systems (2006) and Real-Time Agility: Agile Methods for Real-Time and Embedded Systems (2009).

The second keynote of QA&TEST will be given by Miss Mary Poppendieck, international expert in agile software. Mary Poppendieck has a long experience in software development, and she is a specialist in managing software projects. She wrote the award-winning book Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit in 2003 to explain how the lean principles from manufacturing offer a better approach to software development. In 2006, she published a second book based on her on-going learning; Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash

Mr. Hung Q. Nguyen, responsible for the strategic direction and executive business management of Logigear, will be in charge of the third keynote of the Conference. Mr. Nguyen leads the company’s innovative approach to software testing, test automation, testing tool solutions and testing education programs. Mr. Nguyen is coauthor of the top-selling book in the software testing field, Testing Computer Software (2002) and other publications including Testing Applications on the Web

In this edition of QA&TEST, the testing and QA software in the aeronautic and aerospace industry will have special importance, with the presence of representatives of NASA, GMV Aerospace and Defense and Israel Aircraft Airlines.

You will find more information about QA&TEST at the oficial website of the Conference: www.qatest.org.