QAI announces Software estimation leadership awards 2007

QAI's Testing Leadership Awards 2007 announced

Aztecsoft wins the top honours, with NIIT Technology and HCL technologies the first and second runners up respectively

The much-awaited QAI's Testing Leadership Awards have been announced at the 7th Annual International Software Testing Conference in Bangalore. QAI's Testing Leadership awards recognizes leadership & contribution in the field of software testing. It provides impetus & encourage contribution to the testing processes, skills & principles that make testing an imperative part of the software development life cycle. It also encourages breakthrough achievements & innovative approaches in the testing process that aim to make successful products & services in the IT Industry.

The winner of QAI Testing Leadership Award 2007 was Mr Sanjay Kulkarni from Aztecsoft Ltd who submitted one of the most original and clearly the best paper titled "Practical Measurement of Outsourced Product Testing". The citation for the paper read as “This paper is a great example of a direction that more and more software organizations need to go in. It describes the development of a set of metrics to measure quality of service for outsourced product testing. This paper is a model for test organizations everywhere”.

The first runner-up were N.Gnanasekaran and Vineet Banga, from NIIT Technologies Ltd who presented a very readable paper "Automated Regression Testing Framework". The citation for the award said “the paper presents a clear step-by-step account of a successful and cost-effective implementation of automated regression testing. As automated regression testing is a necessity for contemporary testing, this paper should help more companies move more quickly acquire this important capability”.

The Second runner-up was awarded to a paper on "Creating Testing Evangelists Strategies to drive high performance from software testing teams". This paper was presented by Rajee Natesan and Ranganathan Santhanam of HCL Technologies Ltd. The citation read as “The challenge of leading a test team to high performance is difficult and under appreciated. This paper squarely addresses that oversight. Chock full of cases studies and practical ideas, this paper reminds us that testing is not just a technical activity, but a social activity done by people. And people, who are led well, perform better”.

The Software Testing Conference 2007 had over 250 author intent submissions and a final of over 175 best practices and papers received from all across India. The three-member expert jury short listed these down to the best of 80 top papers. Further analysis and evaluation brought up the Top 31 papers - which were then chosen for presentation in this conference. The final countdown by a second jury panel narrowed the competition down to the Top 10 best papers, out of which the best three got awarded.

This year QAI's expert jury consisted of international guru's like Dr. Richard Zultner, QFD Institute and Lee Copeland, SQE selected the winners from a total of 175 submissions on the latest state of the art and state of the practice in software testing and strategies being used by leading software organizations from 107 organizations in the testing arena.

Mr. T. Srinivasan, Executive Director, HP Software, India said "HP Software, the global leader in Quality Management and Software Testing is proud to be associated with the QAI Software Testing Conference. Today applications are the business and managing, optimizing quality and performance of these applications is extremely important for better business outcomes. During the course of this conference we will be sharing global best practices, highlight emerging QA trends and demonstrate new capabilities of HP Software's comprehensive, industry leading suite of solutions."

With an attendance of over 600 professionals from the software testing industry delegates attending were the representatives from the leading software companies in the Asia Pacific region.

"The STC has emphasized on Software Testing as an important step in the product life cycle. The Conference was our endeavour to provide yet another platform for knowledge sharing for testing practitioners, software developers, software testers, project managers, software customers and other testing practitioners", says Mr. Navyug Mohnot, CEO, QAI.

For over 15 years, QAI has brought together international representatives and recognized thought-leaders to share information, learn new software quality processes, and discuss software practices through a number of prestigious events like Asia SEPG Conference, Project Management Leadership Conference, Software Estimation Colloquium, IT Service Excellence Colloquium and International Software Testing Conference.

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About QAI:

QAI is a leading global consulting organization addressing ‘Operational Excellence' in IT, BPO and Knowledge intensive organizations.

QAI’s regional bases across the globe in the US, Singapore, China, Malaysia, UK and India helps to innovatively distribute and manage engagements across multiple locations. QAI facilitates enhanced competitiveness through multi-faceted interventions leading to Business Improvement through Consulting, Training, People, Process & Operational Assessments, Benchmarking, Certification, Conferences, Resource provisioning through Quality Outsourcing and e-Learning.

QAI believes in contributing to the development of ‘Nations of Software Excellence’ by working closely with government bodies, research institutions, defence organizations, software parks, industry associations and World Bank funded projects in several countries.

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