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Over the past 16 years, the iqnite conference has developed to become an important means of sharing thoughts and ideas within the software quality community. With its hard-to-beat coverage of the latest trends in quality management and testing, it ranks amongst the top independent conferences in its segment.

As well as being a meeting place for experts from a wide range of industries, iqnite brings you together with professionals from your field and others to talk about experiences and best practices concerning different technologies. Delegates also benefit from a professional environment in which they can discuss a variety of application scenarios with quality and testing experts. Added to all that, there will be representatives of the academic sphere on hand to engage with delegates on visions, ideas and trends prevalent in the academic world.

The iqnite conference series will be held in seven countries in 2012: Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland (Geneva and Zurich), Australia, Sweden, Austria and South Africa.

The conference is aimed at management decision-makers, IT project leaders, test managers, quality officers, heads of business departments and, last but not least, anyone seeking answers to the question of how to cut costs or boost productivity in today’s business climate. Executives from the world of IT and business departments plus professionals who’ve spent several years as testers are also extremely welcome.

The fact that iqnite meets delegates’ expectations is mainly thanks to our speakers. By passing on their knowledge and experience on innovations and best practices, they make a crucial contribution to the conference. So, if you’re interested in speaking at the iqnite conference and being part of its success story, we’d be happy to receive your submission.

Another key aspect of this 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.

As industrialisation progresses apace, IT is increasingly again being seen as a business enabler rather than merely an end unto itself. Consequently, IT as well as quality management and testing have to be applied according to the goals and demands. Therefore, we’ve chosen the following slogan for the 2012 conference:

“Quality: Fit for purpose! Fit for the future!”

Any type of quality management or testing activity will be addressed with respect to the expected and achieved goals. The programme will explore questions such as “What expectations need to be satisfied and what business value must be achieved, in particular with regards to the future?”, “What are the activities realising early benefits and those sustainable benefits?”, “What goals can be achieved and how can progress towards the goals be measured?”.

We’re looking for relevant, innovative ideas that can be translated into practice and cover one or more of the following topics:

Topics

·         Standards and regulations

o    Compliance with regulations

o    Compliance and quality assurance

o    Non-functional requirements for the whole software lifecycle

o    Security and safety

o    Standards (application and impacts on quality)

·         Lifecycle Management

o    Project management

o    Requirements management

o    Application lifecycle management

o    Risk management and governance

o    Test management

o    Configuration management

o    Change management

o    Holistic quality management

o    Enterprise Architecture Management

·         Processes and measurement

o    Agile/lean approaches for development, testing and quality management

o    Process models (V model (XT), Scrum, RUP, etc.)

o    Process implementation and improvement (CMMI, TestSPICE, SPICE, etc.)

o    Process and Product KPIs

·         Organisation

o    Delivery models

o    Managed services and testing as a service

o    Outsourcing and offshoring

o    Cloud services

o    Corporate governance

o    Controlling external suppliers

o    Training, certification and career paths

·         Tools

o    Test automation

o    Test tool suites

o    Test data generation and provision

o    Test environments and infrastructure

o    Application lifecycle management tools

If your contribution doesn’t relate to one of the topics above but has an obvious link with software quality and testing, and the conference title, we’d love to hear from you too.

Please send us your proposal in one of the following two formats:

Proposals for iqnite 2012 Suisse 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. Please structure your abstract as follows:

1.          Motivation: Why is this topic important? Where are the ‘pains and potentials’ today and whom do they affect?

2.          Basis: What conditions need to be in place for the proposed solution to function? What is it dependent on as basis?

3.          Solution: What is the solution? How does it assist in solving the problem? How does the solution work?

4.          Outcome: What does the solution achieve? What added value does its application generate? Is there any practical evidence?

5.          Outlook: Which aspects of the solution can be further developed? What are the next steps?

6.          Added value to audience: What are the lessons learned for the audience? What do they need to apply the proposed solution?

If an author’s submission is accepted, he or she will be informed and asked to provide a more detailed presentation (max. 15 pages).

The programme committee reserves the right to reject the contribution if the content or form of the detailed version differs significantly from the submitted abstract

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