Program for Thursday, March 11, 2004

Speakers: Aniz Sabuwala & David L'Heureux

Title: Get Going with Reviews and Inspections

Audience level: All

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS AND PRESENTATION:

Abstract:

Have you ever heard of a best practice not being popular just because it is very low-tech and not difficult to perform? Reviews and Inspections offer one of best defense against defects and yet one does not find it being practiced widely. This workshop will, teach you one of the most effective ways for conducting reviews and inspections, share with you some ideas on how to sell it to different groups, and teach you methods to measure effectiveness of team inspection.

Workshop Focus

The workshop will provide effective ways of conducting reviews and inspections and how to measure the effectiveness of an inspection.

Who Should Attend

This workshop will provide great benefits to people at all levels and functions

Ø     Business Analyst
Ø     Developers
Ø     QA/QC members
Ø     SEPG
Ø     Testers

You Will Learn… 

Ø      Why do reviews and inspections
Ø      How to conduct reviews and inspections
Ø      From a real life review and inspection case study
Ø      How to use the Capture-Recapture Method
Ø      How to sell this practice to your organization

Put These Practical New Skills To Work Immediately

Ø      Start a personal review process
Ø      Conduct team inspections
Ø      Measure yield by using the Capture-Recapture method
Ø      Develop an organizational implementation strategy
Ø      Improve your golf score. Yeah right, if that was possible

Aniz Sabuwala Profile:

Knowledge Consultant

Ambient Consulting LLC

Aniz is a Knowledge consultant with Ambient Consulting.  He is the subject matter expert for QA processes, load and performance engineering and automated testing especially LoadRunner.

Aniz’s interests include software process improvement, implementing QA processes and working on load and performance engineering issues beyond load testing tools.  different models for application behavior simulation.

Prior, to QA and testing field Aniz was in development field. His experience include banking, service, retail and manufacturing industries.  He was among the first one to implement SWIFT MTS 940 standard and his last project as a developer was being a project lead for a GE Avis’s offshore project. Due to his development background, he is genuinely concerned about implementing QA processes that are practical and suited for developers.

Aniz has conducted various workshops on structured software testing for developers as well as testers, understanding Entity Relationship Diagrams and SQL for testers, PSP(SM) for Engineers and Introduction to PSP(SM) for non-engineers.

Aniz holds various certifications in QA and Testing field. Most prominent among them are ASQ CSQE, QAI CSQA and LR CPS. He is also SEI authorized Personal Software Process(SM) instructor and Team Software Process(SM) team coach.

(SM) Personal Software Process and Team Software Process are service marks of Carnegie Mellon University

David L'Heureux Profile:

David L'Heureux is currently working as part of the QA/QC team for Wells Fargo & Co., Wholesale Internet Solutions. He has specialized in software quality and process improvement since 1992 and has held senior consulting positions with Testware Associates and Ambient Consulting. David has taught classes in both dynamic and static testing. He was responsible for hiring, training and mentoring staff at Testware Associates and has implemented new processes for both clients and employers. David earned both the Certified Software Test Engineer (CSTE) and Certified Quality Assurance Engineer (CSQA) designations from the Quality Assurance Institute. He resides in Fridley, MN and has been an active member of the TCQAA board since 1995, serving in number of capacities, including President and Webmaster.