Past Meetings
May 29, 2008
Trevor Atkins
Silverpath Technologies
"Increasing Test Effort Estimation Effectiveness"
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April 24, 2008
Jay Marino
Eclipsys Corporation
"Testing the Extreme"
Download Testing the Extreme (1336 KB)
March 27, 2008
Raymond To and Martyne Lacoste
GO RECRUITMENT
"A Match Made in Heaven"
"Go Recruitment"
Download A Match Made in Heaven (97 KB)
Download Go Recruitment Presentation (1 MB)
February 28, 2008
Rodrigo de Carvalho
Rational Technical Specialist, IBM Software Group
"The Value of Web Application Security Testing"
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Download IBM Proof of Technology document (26 KB)
January 31, 2008
Jim Brosseau, Principal
Clarrus Consulting Groups
"Actually, It IS All About You!"
Download All About You (464 KB)
November 29,2007
Rob MacNeil
Manager Quality and Regulatory Affairs
"The Day You’ll Look Forward to Receiving/Conducting a Quality Audit"
October 25,2007
Presenters: Mike Butler, Matt York, Kayla Kinnunen, Edwin Yiu, Tamara Sciamanna
"QA the EA Way . It.s in the Game Because We Made Sure It Was!"
Sept 27, 2007
Medhat Elmasry
Instructor at BCIT
Sharepoint 101
June 28, 2007
Robert Goatham
Project Manager, IBM
"Patterns in the Decision Engine"
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May 24, 2007
Jim Brusseau
PMP, Clarrus Consulting Group
"Quality Attributes Primer"
Download Quality Attributes primer (92 KB)
Download Software Quality Attributes (63 KB)
Download Quality Attributes.xls (57 KB)
April 26, 2007
Erik Schultz
Senior solutions engineer, Borland
"Borland’s Strategy For Quality Management Lifecycle"
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March 29, 2007
Ken Wong
Senior System Analyst
"Software Safety: An Oxymoron?"
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February 22, 2007
Grace Shi
PMP MBA MEng
"How requirement management can impact product quality"
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January 25, 2007
Josip Pajk
BScEE
"SW Quality Assurance in CMMI®"
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November 30, 2006
Rodrigo Orzari de Carvalho
Rational Technical Sales Specialist, IBM Software Group
"Attacking Code Quality Issues"
November 16, 2006
Linda Rising
Expert on topics related to patterns, retrospectives, and the change process
"A Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas"
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October 26, 2006
D’Arcy Smith
Instructor at BCIT
"Attacking Code Quality Issues"
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September 28, 2006
Chris Strand
Subject Matter Expert, Compuware Corporation
"Quality Assurance across the Software Development Lifecycle"
June 29, 2006
Ken Creamore
Senior QA manager of Simply Accounting group at Sage Software (Canada)
"Team Driven Automation Using Commercial And Locally Developed Tools"
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Download Automation Builder for Winrunner Training (1,553 KB)
May 25, 2006
Jeff Joyce
President and Co-founder of Critical Systems Labs
"Why Safety-critical Software needs more than Software Quality Assurance to Manage Safety Risk"
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Download Paper on Hazard-Driven Testing (97 KB)
April 27, 2006
Brian Pidcock
Computer Science Technology Instructor at BCIT
"Are IBM's New Test Tools Worth Considering?"
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March 30, 2006
Roy Budhai
Software Testing Manager, Enterprise Reporting (Crystal Reports)
"Test automation and metrics in multi-site development environment"
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February 23, 2006
John Smith
President, MAR Computer Systems Inc.
"Building a test automation system incrementally using Mercury's tools"
January 26, 2006
John Bristowe
Developer Evangelist with Microsoft Canada
"Software Quality Assurance with VSTS"
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VSTS Rocks! Web site: http://www.vstsrocks.com
Joel Semeniuk (Microsoft Regional Director (www.microsoft.com/rd/) from Winnipeg, MB. One of the best VSTS resources in the world): http://weblogs.asp.net/jsemeniuk/
November 24, 2005
Trevor Atkins
VP Operations, QA Labs Inc.
"Optimize Your Defect Lifecycle – Philosophy of Resolution"
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November 3, 2005
Robert MacNeil
Manager of Quality and Regulatory Affairs, McKesson Medical Imaging Group
"Lessons in Incremental Improvement of a Quality System for Developing Medical Image Management Systems"
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September 29, 2005
Jay Marino
IT QA Engineer, CityXpress
"Testing of Web Applications: HTTPUnit and JUnit - An Introduction to Open Source Tools"
Download test objects (669 KB)
June 23, 2005
Veronika Smolik | Brian Pidcock
Active Community Solutions (Class Software) | Instructor, BCIT
"Implementing a prototype keyword library as a first step toward automated testing"
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May 26, 2005
Robert Goatham
IT Manager VCS
"Come Play Project Manager"
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April 28, 2005
Ken Creamore
Simply Accounting Group, ACCPAC International
"Rocky Path To Test Automation"
February 24, 2005
Ajay Sidda
CypressLogic Systems Inc.
"Testing Web Services"
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January 27, 2005
Lisa Toth
QA Labs Inc.
"Establishing a Quality Culture in an Organization"
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November 25th 2004
Robert Goatham and panelists
Problems or Challenges? A look at our shared experiences
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October 27, 2004
Daniel Zrymiak
Awards presentation
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September 30th 2004
Robert Goatham
Quality Is Dead(?)
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June 23rd, 2004
Daniel Zrymiak
Neoteric Technology Ltd.
"Improving Software Quality with Six Sigma"
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March 31st, 2004
Jamie Andrews
Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario
"Advanced Modeling, Model Based Test Generation and Abstract State Machine Language"
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September 26th, 2003
Keith Stobie
Test Architect, Microsoft Corporation
"Advanced Modeling, Model Based Test Generation and Abstract State Machine Language"
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October 28th 2003
Mark Allen
Director, Architech, Pangaea Systems Inc
"Automated Build and Test with the .NET Framework"
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January 13th, 2004
Jim Brosseau
Clarrus Consulting Group
"Right Up Front: Strategies for Prioritizing Test Activities"
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February 18th, 2004
Miroslav Novak
Systems Engineer, Borland W Canada
"Testing of UML Driven Systems"