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  January 25, 2012 Vol III: No.02  

QA Pulse for Software Executives

Cyara Outbound Testing Receives Product of the Year Award from Customer Interaction Solutions Magazine:  Cyara Solutions announced that Cyara Outbound Testing, the latest testing module in the Cyara Solution Suite, an end-to-end automated simulation, testing and monitoring software solution suite for interactive voice response systems, outbound dialers and contact centers, was awarded a 2011 Product of the Year Award from Technology Marketing Corporation’s Customer Interaction Solutions magazine. The Cyara Solution Suite provides a complete suite of products for testing speech-enabled IVRs and contact center infrastructure and applications from initial deployment through subsequent modifications, fine-tuning ongoing operations in production to ensure exemplary system operation and customer experience. Read more...

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uTest Brings Crowdsourcing to uberSVN:  WANdisco, the leading provider of Apache Subversion-based software and services for the enterprise, has inked a partnership with uTest, the leader for in-the-wild software testing, making uTest's service available to uberSVN customers through the uberAPPS store. uTest's offering has been pre-certified by WANdisco to ensure seamless interconnectivity with uberSVN, allowing app developers to quickly and securely install uTest's platform with a single click of the mouse. "We selected uTest over alternative QA solutions because their in-the-wild testing has such a strong reputation for positively impacting the quality of apps," said David Richards, CEO and co-founder, WANdisco. "It's a natural extension to uberSVN, enabling development teams to launch quickly while controlling the cost of testing." Read more...

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Neopost Advances Software Quality and Product Innovation with Coverity Development Testing:  Coverity, the leader in development testing, announced that Neopost, the European leader for mailing room equipment and logistics systems, is accelerating time to market and product innovation by using Coverity Static Analysis as its development testing solution. By finding and fixing software defects in the embedded systems integrated in its wide range of professional machines as the code is being written, Neopost has shortened its development time by 50% and has reduced the business risk of critical software defects entering the field. Read more...

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Symphony selects HP for software testing: Symphony Services, an R&D services company, has selected HP software solutions to help its customers reduce software development times by up to 30 percent. The manual testing processes used by some of the company's customers resulted in long development times and lacked consistent quality for new software applications. For this the company selected HP's IT Performance Suite software solutions to automate its application testing services. The solution will help the company to improve the efficiency of its testing processes as well as the effectiveness of identifying application defects. These improvements are expected to increase quality assurance by up to 20 percent. Read more...

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February 17, 2012
Agile India 2012
Hosted by Agile India
Bangalore India

Agile Development Practices East 2011 deals with the latest in agile methods, technologies, tools, and leadership principles from thought leaders who deliver inspiring keynote presentations, in-depth tutorials, and a wide range of conference classes.  Details

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June 10-15, 2012
Better Software Conference West
Hosted by SQE
Las Vegas

Better Software Conference West will be focused on customer-focused view of development, latest tools, trends, and issues regarding project management, people and teams, software testing and QA, software requirements, process improvement, metrics, design and architecture. Details

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June 10-15, 2012
Agile Development Conference West
Hosted by SQE
Las Vegas

Agile Development Conference West 2012 will focus on the latest in agile methods, technologies, tools, and leadership principles from thought leaders who deliver inspiring keynotes, in-depth tutorials, and a wide range of conference classes. Details

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Apr 30 to May 4, 2012
Quest Conference
Hosted by Quest
Chicago

QUEST 2012 Conference is the best source for new technologies and proven methods for Quality Engineered Software and Testing. Thought leaders, evangelists, innovative practitioners, and IT professionals from across North America gather together for a week packed with classes, tutorials, educational sessions, hand-on workshops, discussions groups, EXPO, and networking events. Details

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