The international conference on software testing and quality, expo:QA, has achieved its greatest success to date, confirming its distinction as the event of reference for software testing and quality in Spain and one of the European events experiencing the greatest growth.

This year the conference was held in a new venue, the Feria de Madrid North Convention and Congress Centre, offering us ample and professional space in which to welcome the 300 delegates and 20 sponsoring and presenting firms.

The conference program included 40 presentations by national and international speakers spread out over 4 parallel tracks, in addition to simultaneous interpretation services, tutorials, workshops and book-signings by renowned authors participating in expo:QA.

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Three distinguished guests offered excellent tutorials on November 16th:

Dorothy Graham (photo), consultant, speaker and internationally-renowned author of several books on testing and test automation offered a brilliant tutorial on “Successful Test Automation”.

Ken Brennock, expert in agile testing environments for SOGETI Ireland, offered a tutorial on combining “Quality with Agile”.

Niels Malotaux, an independent consultant and expert in IT project optimization, presented a workshop entitled, “How to Improve the Result of Reviews and Inspections”.

Isabel Evans (Left photo), Quality Director at Dolphin Computer Access and a well-known speaker at international software quality conferences and member of various work groups to improve the industry, was given the Technical Committee Award for the best paper, “Growing our industry: cultivating testing”.

Niels Malotaux (midle photo) an independent consultant, expert in IT project optimization and advocate of the Evolutionary Project Management (Evo) methods, received the Delegates’ Choice Award. His presentation, “Help! We have a QA problem”, was rated as the best by expo:QA’10 delegates, receiving a score of 4.45 out of 5 in the interactive VOTE AND WIN contest.

Lastly, Derk-Jan de Grood (right photo),experienced test manager and author of the book, “TestGoal, result-driven testing”, received the Special Regognition Award granted by the Technical Committee for his presentation, “Selecting the Most Effective Test Design Techniques".

Graham Moran received the Best Debater Award as the participant who best defended his views with most passion in the ethical debate on software testing organized by Nathalie Rooseboom de Vries van Delft. This debate proved to be very interesting and fun, and included participation by Ewout Van Driell and their “surprise” guest, Dorothy Graham.

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More than 20 leading firms in the testing industry presented their solutions and services in the expo:QA’10 exhibition hall.

The event was endorsed by SOGETI, a worldwide leader in Software Control & Testing services, and was sponsored by IBM (Platinum Sponsor) and BULL, HP, MICRO-FOCUS, MICROSOFT, MTP, ORACLE, SOPRA GROUP and STERIA (Gold Sponsors).

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Some useful blogs which told about the 2010 event:

http://funtestic.blogspot.com/, Nathalie Van Delft's blog in English

http://ddonofrio.blogspot.com/, Diego D’onofrio's blog in Spanish

http://www.swfactory.es/, Manuel Carlos Fernandez's blog in Spanish

http://www.softqanetwork.com/cronica-de-expoqa-2010, article by Javier Fernández Pello in SPanish