SoftTest Ireland had its first quarterly meeting on Thursday September 12th. The meeting was sponsored by EuroSTAR Conferences and Novell.

Quarterly events are open to all testers (non-members entry fee is 20 euro). Membership to SoftTest Ireland can be arranged on the evening. The individual membership subscription is 50 euro and company membership (allowing up to 5 people to attend each event) is 200 euro.

We look forward to seeing you at one of our events,
Regards
Lorraine Murphy

Large integration projects must be must be verified and signed-off at various levels, a cluster approach can achieve this. A formal delivery based (measurable) approach to large scale programme sign-off. (This provides a large increase to "Comfort" factor when sign-off can be given at three distinct levels). How to Identify and define a cluster boundary (where a logical business groping of application should end and a new grouping begin). The effective use of short-term contractors as the "end to end SWAT". Who can be defined as people targeted at plugging the coverage gap between the clusters and the effective use of in-house data within the integration process.

This talk examines some of the successes and failures associated with developing GUI automation to automate quality engineering in complex S/W applications. Specifically, we will explore the various approaches taken at IBM and summarise the direction taken and the successes gleaned. We will also discuss some of the drawbacks to deploying run-time GUI automation across the various corporate sub-divisions. Finally, we will propose the direction that companies need to take should they wish to consider run-time automation in their Quality Engineering strategy.