iqnite Australia 2012 Call for Papers
iqnite Australia 2012 is currently seeking submissions for workshops and presentations.
As a speaker at iqnite 2012 Australia, you‘ll become part of an established community of software quality management experts. It’s the perfect opportunity to present yourself and your business to a wide industry audience and enhance your image as an expert.
Conference Theme - CALM Testing (Complete Application Lifecycle Management Testing)
Improving quality across the whole application lifecycle is the next frontier for the IT industry. Application Lifecycle Management has emerged as a key focus, going beyond the software development lifecycle to embrace everything from conceptualisation to decommissioning. We face many challenges: getting the right ideas in place, providing the right governance across project implementation, and even ensuring that transformational projects designed to replace legacy systems actually deliver the streamlined business processes they promise, instead of just adding another layer of complexity.
Where does the software testing discipline fit in? With a focus on quality, strong analytical and technical skills, and an orientation to ensuring business value is delivered, software testing has a lot to offer the whole application lifecycle – but we also have a lot to learn from the teams that manage that lifecycle..
iqnite 2012 seeks presentations from people working in software testing, business analysis, project management, performance and operations management, and portfolio management on the following topics:
- The role of software testing in vendor selection, application evaluation and contract management
- Requirements evaluation and analytics
- Software acquisition: accepting and testing COTS (e.g. SAP, Peoplesoft, Siebel) and systems delivered by outsourced development
- Validating business needs and requirements from conception to fulfilment
- Testing complex environments, including cloud hosted systems and virtualised environments
- Next generation test automation: making test automation work in agile projects, across the enterprise, and throughout the lifecycle
- Agile and iterative testing methodologies in practice – living in harmony with traditional linear methodologies
- Application Performance Management
- Post production testing
- Accessibility and WCAG 2.0 compliance
- Security testing
- Managing off-shoring effectively
- Quality and governance at the IT programme and portfolio level
- Quality in the light of ubiquitous computing: the challenges of mobility testing, multi-platform applications and high availability systems.
Programme Committee
A key aspect of the iqnite conference is its programme committee, consisting of experts who put together an innovative, informative and inspiring programme based on the ideas submitted, unbiased by company interests. Each submission will
be examined by at least three members of the programme committee and assessed using the following criteria:
- Relevance for the field of quality management and testing
- Degree of innovation (either in terms of the approach or in the form of lessons learned)
- Applicability
- Approach taken in presenting the subject matter to the audience
- Business value for the company/the organisation applying the solution
- Contributions that are primarily marketing or PR for the speaker’s own business or products will be rejected by the
programme committee.
How to Submit a Proposal
Proposals for iqnite Australia 2012 should take the form of a summary (approx. one A4 page, 3,500 characters) and be submitted using “ConfTool”, which will also be used to manage them online. For further information on the required structure for submissions and to access the URL for the submission page, please visit https://www.conftool.com/iqniteau2012/.
