Justin Hunter of Hexawise will be leading this discussion. Justin Hunter is the founder and CEO of Hexawise
He led combination testing efforts at Accenture (a 180,000 person management consulting and
IT firm), and decided to form Hexawise after a couple dozen combination testing projects
made it clear that: (1) combination testing consistently demonstrated compelling efficiency and
quality improvement benefits, and (2) that even sophisticated Fortune 100 firms were not yet
using combination testing tools or methods.

Here is the agenda:

I. Welcome (Bob Galen)
II. Introduction / Executive Summary (Justin Hunter)
-What challenges does combination testing solve?
-How does combination testing work?
-Where can it be used and what benefits does it deliver?
-What are critical success factors and general lessons learned from 2 dozen projects?
-Why isn’t this method of test design more well known and more widespread?

III. How the Proof of Concept Pilots Were Conducted (Bob Galen)
-Structure of Pilots
-- “2 testers in a room w/ Hexawise vs. 4 testers in a room w/out Hexawise”
-Three hypotheses that were tested in each case study:
-- No. 1 - Test design speed: savings of at least 30%
-- No. 2 - Test execution speed: savings of at least 25%
-- No. 3 - Cost of defect resolution: savings of at least 20%
IV. Panelist Discussion
-Summary of pilot projects - What kind of testing projects did the panelists choose? Why?
-Findings for each of the three hypotheses - Were targeted savings achieved?
-Ease of use / change management - How easy was it to learn? ...to implement?
-Lessons learned - What went well? ... not so well? ... any surprises?
-Turning the “speed v. quality” dial - How will panelists use the efficiencies created?
-Implications - Will panelists use Hexawise again? Why? Why not? Where?

Panelists include: Lester Bostic and Justin Hunter. Others coming soon....

Testing for 508 Compliance
By: Lisa Pappas
Lisa Pappas is an accessibility analyst with SAS Institute (www.sas.com). She authored the institute's accessibility white paper: Universal Design: A Commitment to Accessible Software. She works with software testers to identify and prioritize accessibility issues, with development teams to address issues found, and with sales to complete accessibility checklists used in procurement. An Associate Fellow and senior member of STC, she has received several STC awards including Distinguished Technical Communication in the International Online Communication Competition (1999). She volunteers with the W3C and is an editor on the Web Accessibility Initiative Accessible Rich Internet Application (WAI-ARIA) specifications.

May 21, 2009

Morrisville Chamber of Commerce
260 Town Hall Drive, Suite A
Morrisville, NC 27560

The Triangle Information Systems Quality Association (TISQA) is sponsoring our annual Software Testing conference on March 16 & 17, 2009.
This year's event theme is Agile Testing in the Carolinas. Our program surrounds topics that are relevant for:
• Traditional testers and managers who are looking for ideas to test better and faster
• Software Developers who are looking for ideas surrounding Unit and Test-Driven Development techniques in Agile and non-Agile contexts
• Agile testers who are looking to take their `game' to the next level
• Development and Test Managers and Directors who are looking for better methods to deliver high quality & value—quickly!
We think the conference program has something value for all of you.
We're also honored to have invited Keynotes and Tutorials by Lisa Crispin, Janet Gregory and Michael Bolton—
Lisa Crispin (ePlan Services) & Janet Gregory (Dragonfire)
Lisa and Janet have literally written the book on Agile Testing, which was published by Addison Wesley in January 2009. Both are extremely respected and qualified agile testers. Lisa was also co-author of the 2002 XP Testing book that, to this day, serves as the leading advice for testers working in XP contexts.
Michael Bolton (Developsense)
Michael is a contributing editor to Better Software magazine and a well know author, teacher, and writer on testing topics with a specialization on Exploratory Testing. He's a co-author of James Bach's Rapid Software Testing – Exploratory Testing course and is extremely well respected in our community.
In these tough economic times, we're extremely pleased to bring a World Class, cost-effective testing program right here to the heart of North Carolina. Please pass this around to your boss, colleagues and friends.

For conference and registration information go to: http://tisqa.qaichapter.org/ and download a copy of our brochure. It contains full program information and links for conference registration.
We're looking forward to seeing you at Agile Testing in the Carolinas!

Please do not RSVP via Meetup for this event, but if you have any questions we will be happy to answer them..

TISQA is having it’s Annual “Membership Thank You” dinner on October 16th, 2008 at the Sheraton Imperial in RTP.
Our Dinner Speakers are:

Bart Queen of C3 Communications will be a keynote for the evening. At the heart of C3 Communications is Bart Queen’s personal and professional philosophy: If you want things to change, you have to change. He’ll be speaking on topics surround Communications & Change. More on Bart at - http://www.c-3communications.com

And
Joshua Lozoff, a professional magician, will be entertaining us with his magic and humor. More on Josh at - www.deep-magic.com

Registration is via EventWax and you can register at http://tisqa.eventwax.com/tisqa-dinner

Dinner is free for 2008 paid members of TISQA. Guests may come for a nominal charge of $10 each to be paid at the dinner. Please register as soon as you can so we can track our headcount.

As for TISQA business at the meeting, we’ll be electing the new 2009 TISQA Board and announcing our Presenter of the Year award winner.
It should be a Blast and we look forward to seeing you!