For those of you who attended my presentation at SIGiST 2008, below are the results of the Ambiguity Review exercise that you all did :-) Sorry about the length of this post - even by MY standards it's a bit long. But if you're into Quality in particular, and

I must say that I had fun giving this presentation, and I guess that the audience felt it too. Requirements Review - it sounds dreadfully boring. Months ago, when I was asked to speak, I thought "what can I do to make it a bit more interesting?". I came up with the idea of involving

If you didn't guess, I'm talking about MY Presentation for SIGiST Israel 2008! After a very good keynote speech (separate post on the keynotes coming up soon), it was time for me to brave the crowd. I will admit to being a tad nervous. I've given dozens of presentations in the past, but mostly to "friendly" audiences,

Unfortunately, I couldn't attend the tutorial days at SIGiST 2008 - I had to polish up my own presentation for the conference itself! So, I had a chat with 2 of the tutorial lecturers, and one of the attendees, to get their impressions of the tutorial days. Thanks to all of you for giving me the time. Logistics and Stuff The tutorials were given at the Sela offices in Bnei Berak, but to make it into a more conference-like atmosphere, all the classrooms on the ground floor had been closed off for the tutorials, and there was regular conference-style registration, t-shirts and refreshments. I heard that all the logistics were taken care of very well. On the other hand, it sounds like each tutorial took place at its own pace, and the attendees went out to lunch at restaurants in the area. I'm guessing that it was really worthwhile to use the offices, rather than the Sheraton Moriah Hotel, which is the venue for the next 2 days of conference, otherwise it's possible that the tutorials wouldn't have take place at all.

Along with the European and Indian speakers, there are some great Israeli speakers giving tutorials. On Sunday the 22nd of June, we have 2 one-day tutorials from Nancy Clayman and Michael Stahl. Nancy, the founder of NCQA, will be giving "TPI in a Day", a really good introduction to the TPI

   Are you a professional test engineer? If so, you should be going to the SIGiST 2008 conference next week in Tel Aviv, Israel. "What is a SIGiST?" you may well ask. A SIGiST is a "Special Interest Group in Software Testing". There are SIGiSTs