CAST 2013

Whether you are a line manager in test, a head of the test organization or an aspiring test lead, every day you are faced with questions on how to do your job more effectively. We offer you a unique opportunity to learn from your peers who have done that successfully.  Join us for the panel discussion where leaders in software testing share their insights, practices, stories of what worked and what failed, and strategies that lead them to their success. The experts will debate and answer your questions on:

Leading an effective test team and test organization
Hiring the right people
Enabling your team for success: building a nourishing environment for learning and growing
Motivating your people
Strategies for managing stakeholders' expectations
Software test leader's skills and qualities
Career advancement in software test leadership

Our panel members collectively possess over 200 years of experience in leading software testers. They are active members of context-driven testing community.

The AST Education Special Interest Group (EdSIG) is the group that develops, discusses and looks to the future of software testing education, within AST and beyond. Come join us as we look to the future and see where we want to go in 2014 and beyond. You voice and talent can make a world of difference. Come join us and see how.

AST Quality Leader Special Interest Group is dedicated to build a community of context driven test leaders, and provide resources and support for advancing test management, quality advocacy and leadership skills and practices.

Quality Leader SIG identifies test management as a distinct skill that needs mastering. Test managers envision and drive testing strategy on different levels through deep understanding of the context, advance their soft skills for successful collaboration with the other disciplines and stakeholders, build an extensive toolkit of test tools and methodologies, and create an environment for their people to succeed and grow.

Also, Quality Leader SIG recognizes that recently changed industry landscape (such as organizational Agile transformation) introduced new challenges for testers — as well as new opportunities. Oftentimes, the single testers on Agile teams are anticipated to take on responsibilities of test managers or leads (through creating test strategy, distributing or supervising test-related activities, influencing their team members to become quality advocates, etc.), yet having to work with their peers, not direct or indirect reports.

Quality Leader SIG recognizes and supports variety of different paths for career development of software test professionals. Our activities  comprise of facilitating workshops for test leaders and providing the platform for sharing and exchanging techniques and stories. In the long term, we plan to create the Body of Knowledge for context driven test professionals who are accepting the leaders’ role in their organizations.