The Hungarian Testing Board (HTB) organized its fourth annual international conference in Budapest, in association with its media partner, the business- IT publication Bitport.

The two-day conference traditionally consisted of presentations and workshops from members of the software testing community, invited speakers from around the world and specialists of our sponsors. The record number of applications to our "Call for Presentation" also played a major role in finding the appropriate answers to the questions of today's software testing.

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This time HUSTEF was coordinating with an exceptional occurrence. At the same time, and following the conference, the General Assembly of International Software Testing and Qualifications Board (ISTQB), the world organization of software testers, was held in Budapest.

Because of the General Assembly, a large number of prominent international software testers and ISTQB leaders visited Hungary for the very first time.

Day one – Wednesday, 29 October
8:30 - 9:00REGISTRATION
9:00 - 9:15OPENING

Chris Carter • President of ISTQB
9:15 - 10:15WHEN HELPING DOESN’T HELP:
SOFTWARE TESTING AS CODEPENDENT BEHAVIOR

Lee Copeland • SQE Training
10:15 - 11:00TRANSITION & TRANSFORMATION MODEL FOR TaaS

Graham Bath • T-Systems
CFP* POSTER INTROS
11:00 - 11:05

TESTING AT SCALE

Kristóf Szabados • Ericsson
Attila Kovács • ELTE University

TEST AUTOMATION EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT WITH POOLING CONCEPT

Levente Németh • Nokia
11:05 - 11:25COFFEE BREAK & POSTER SESSION
11:25 - 12:25SILENT ASSASSINS

Geoff Thompson • Experimentus, UK Testing Board
12:25 - 12:45MODEL-BASED TESTING – DEMYSTIFIED

Stephan Schulz • Conformiq
12:45 - 13:45NETWORKING LUNCH
13:45 - 14:45BUILDING ON SUCCESS, BEYOND THE OBVIOUS

Erik van Veenendaal • Improve IT Services
14:45 - 15:30TESTING ON THE TOILET QUIZ

Mette Bruhn-Pedersen • Bruhn-Pedersen Consulting
15:30 - 15:50COFFEE BREAK & POSTER SESSION
15:50 - 16:10SPEED UP AND REDUCE THE RISK OF YOUR SAP ROLL-OUT WITH EFFECTIVE TEST MANAGEMENT & TEST AUTOMATION

László Mészáros • Agco Corporation
16:10 - 16:30EFFECTIVE MOBILE AUTOMATION

Péter Földházi • EPAM Systems
16:30 - 17:15STATE OF THE ART AND EVOLUTION ROADMAP

Gualtiero Bazzana • Alten Italia, Italian STQB
Day two – Thursday, 30 October
8:30 - 9:00REGISTRATION
9:00 - 10:00AGILE RISK-BASED TESTING: A HOW-TO GUIDE

Rex Black • RBCS
10:00 - 10:20THE DEATH OF THE TAPE PLAYER

Lajos Tanács • Alvicom
10:20 - 10:40TEST AUTOMATION USING ROBOT FRAMEWORK

Tamás Pályi • IT Services
10:40 - 11:00COFFEE BREAK & POSTER SESSION
CFP* SESSION #1
MODEL BASED TESTING		CFP* SESSION #2
SAFETY CRITICAL SYSTEMS
11:00 - 11:20
THE GAP BETWEEN ACADEMIC RESEARCH AND INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE IN SOFTWARE TESTING

Zoltán Micskei • Budapest
University of Technology and
Economics

A STUDY OF QUALITY ASSURANCE AND UNIT VERIFICATION METHODS IN SAFETY CRITICAL ENVIRONMENT

Miklós Taliga • Budapest
University of Technology and
Economics
11:20 - 11:40
MODEL-BASED TEST GENERATION WITH TITAN

Levente Erős • Budapest
University of Technology and
Economics

TODAY'S DREAM, TOMORROW'S REALITY

Imre Mészáros &
Marc Hegen • Robert Bosch
11:40 - 11:45SHORT BREAK & POSSIBILITY TO CHANGE SESSION
CFP* SESSION #3
TEST PROCESS IMPROVEMENT		CFP* SESSION #4
TEST MANAGEMENT AND TEST AUTOMATION
11:45 - 12:05
USING TMMI CONCEPTS TO IMPROVE EXISTING TEST PROCESSES

Katalin Balla • SQI
Zsolt Hargitai • Lufthansa
Systems
Márton Forró • Budapest
University of Technology and
Economics

TESTER'S DILEMMA

Attila Zsolt Domokos •
Magyar Telekom
12:05 - 12:25
TEST SUITE QUALITY ASSESSMENT

Árpád Beszédes • University of
Szeged

CREATING A DYNAMIC TEST EXECUTION FRAMEWORK – AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH IN MISSION CRITICAL ENVIRONMENT

Attila Tóth • Nokia
12:25 - 12:45
MEASURING AND IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF THE SOFTWARE TESTING

Huba Demeter • Nokia

CLOUD SERVICE TESTING

Harry Sneed • ANECON
12:45 - 13:45NETWORKING LUNCH
TUTORIALTUTORIAL
13:45 - 15:45
EXPLORATORY TESTING EXPLAINED

Lee Copeland • SQE Training

AGILE RISK-BASED TESTING: A HOW-TO GUIDE

Rex Black • RBCS
15:45 - 16:05COFFEE BREAK & POSTER SESSION
16:05 - 16:25BUG HUNTING IN PRACTICE

Marko Kuisma & Szilárd Széll • Nokia
16:25 - 17:10PRACTICAL LEARNING & ASSESSMENTS FOR SOFTWARE TESTING: CHALLENGES AND BENEFITS

Mike Smith • Learntesting Group
17:10 - 17:30CONFERENCE CLOSURE

* Call for Presentation: we were soliciting for proposals for 20 minute conference presentations by test practitioners. Submissions should have sought for extracting a message for a broader user community and shouldn't have focused on tooling details.

Hungarian Software Testing Forum

Chris CARTER
Conference Chair
President of ISTQB, Australia

Tibor CSÖNDES
Program Chair
Ericsson, Hungary

e-mail: pc_chair@hustef.hu

Program Committee

Katalin BALLA
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, SQI Ltd., Hungary

Bogdan BEREZA
Victo, Polish Association for Requirements Engineering, Poland

Árpád BESZÉDES
University of Szeged, Hungary

Mette BRUHN-PEDERSEN
Danish Software Testing Board, Denmark

Lee COPELAND
SQE Training, USA

Huba DEMETER
Nokia Solutions and Networks, Hungary

Kari KAKKONEN
FiSTB, Finland

Attila KOVÁCS
Eötvös Loránd University, MeasureIT Ltd., Hungary

Márton MÁTYÁS
EPAM Systems, Switzerland

Szilárd SZÉLL
Nokia Solutions and Networks, Hungary

Erik VAN VEENENDAAL
Improve IT Services BV, Bonaire

Further references of HUSTEF are to be disclosed through regular site updates. Suggestions or inquiries about past or upcoming events are welcome at info@hustef.hu!

HUSTEF is maturing as a conference and continues to attract large numbers of attendees and varied presentations. The organization is excellent and the city of Budapest is a great location. Thanks to this, HUSTEF is now established as one of the principal European conferences.

Lee Copeland
SQE Training

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