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Acpqualife consultants, Véronique Théault and Laurent Bouhier, presented and facilitated the workshop « Raiders of the exploratory test: In search of lost bug » at the Agile Tour in Aix-Marseille and Sophia-Antipolis.

The workshop was a great success, thanks to all participants! We look forward to seeing you again next year in an even greater number!

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Laurent Bouhier and Véronique Théault will present the workshop: « The Benefits of Exploratory Testing: In Pursuit of the Lost Bug » at the Agile Tour 2016 in Aix-Marseille on December 1st at 4:30 pm and at the Agile Tour in Sophia-Antipolis on December 6th at 5:30 pm.
 
Exploratory testing, in many respects, represents a number of agility values: communication, transparency, rapid feedback and improvement.
 
The principle objective of this workshop is to help you improve product quality by learning to use and manage exploratory testing effectively in an agile environment. This practical workshop within a small group will help you understand the methodology through simple and concrete examples (serious game).
 
This workshop presents various issues in agile testing. It will give you the tools you need so that your project’s next exploratory testing session is a success, thereby delivering added business value. This workshop is open to everyone as all team members, including developers, can participate in exploratory testing.
 
Now for a brief introduction of the speakers...
 
With the belief that future trends towards the use of project management tools such as agility will increase, thus offering better control and software quality, Véronique Théault and Laurent Bouhier work with Acpqualife's testers to improve the testing processes used in agile projects. 
Véronique Théault is also an expert in software testing in areas such as auditing, consulting and training. She has a passion for testing, one that led her to co-found the Qualife company - a company dedicated to software testing - in 2002.
 
Véronique also led the open source Salome Test Management Framework (TMF) project for 2 years. She gave a presentation on the topic: “Salome TMF, the Test Management Tool which Integrates Testing and Development Teams” at the OW2 annual conference as well as at the Commission Open Source in Telecom Valley.
 
Laurent Bouhier is an engineer with twenty years experience in computing, over 15 of them in testing. He has contributed immensely to the “Squale” (Software QUALity Enhancement - a quality measurement tool for software that improves testing and code quality) open source project.  With Tom McCabe (the inventor of cyclomatic complexity) and others, he co-authored the article: "An Empirical Model for Continuous and Weighted Metric Aggregation".
 
For over 3 years, Laurent has been a regular speaker in both French and English at "Agile" events. He won the award for Best Presentation at the 2016 JFTL (Journée Française du Test Logiciel or French Software Testing Day) competition. Agility and software testing have, therefore, become his special area of expertise - he is a coach and trainer while also being an effective tester in Scrum projects.

Our « Tests & Qualification » department was built over 10 years ago exclusively around the software testing business.
At Acpqualife, software testing is, above all, a passion – whether it be it in designing testing methodologies, best practices or testing tools.
Because of dedicated work by our teams, testing activity within Acpqualife is primarily for major-account customers at all of our agencies: Aix-en-Provence, Sophia-Antipolis, Toulouse, Paris and Lille.
Thus, Acpqualife has acquired genuine expertise in the software qualification business as well as in the training and coaching of testing teams.
This expertise is recognized in business areas related to contingency planning, banking/finance, industry, services and transport, as well as internationally.
 
If you are passionate about software testing, have a technical background and are looking for an opportunity in Southern France - then check out our job offers!
 

On Tuesday, May 24th, 2016 at 6 pm, in Sophia-Antipolis, acpqualife held its first conference on the topic of "Application Security".
 
The title of the conference was: Why Include Safety in your Software Development Lifecycle?
In this day and age, application security is everyone's concern. It also needs to be taken into consideration during the development phase.
This conference would not have been possible without the expertise and feedback of our consultant, Jérémy MATOS, presenter at this first conference to our customers and partners.
We would like to thank all those who responded to our invitation and who have shown their interest in the topic.
Due to the success of this first effort, our teams are planning a second conference scheduled for the last quarter.
 
Thank you again for joining us on May 24, 2016!

The 8th edition of the JFTL took place on April 12, 2016.
 
This was the biggest event yet with 897 registered participants of which 810 were in attendance.
 
For Acpqualife, this edition was important because we had the pleasure of presenting “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”.
 
The idea behind this presentation was to show the errors that must be avoided when working in Agile mode. Based on his experience in various teams, our speaker detailed the errors to avoid, the different types of project organization and various ways to improve communication between all stakeholders in a project while sidestepping the pitfalls of bad Agility.
 
Many of you came to watch his presentation. It clearly met the expectations of most of you judging from the numerous visits to our stand after the presentation.
 
Everyone on the Acpqualife team was thrilled, especially @laurent_bouhier, when we won the award for Best JFTL 2016 Presentation.
 
We want to thank you all for voting for our consultant.

Starting in January, acpqualife resumed its themed breakfast discussions with clients: Testing in an Agile Environment or Testing Tools.
 
The first breakfast in 2016 took place on 01/07.
The second will be held towards the end of the first quarter.
 
These breakfasts are a great opportunity to talk about problems encountered by our customers, what they expect from us and the rapid transformations taking place.
 
Please don't hesitate to contact us if you'd like to set up a breakfast at your offices so we can have a discussion about the testing business.

We are pleased to announce that, for this 8th edition, acpqualife will hold a conference where it will give a presentation called "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly."
 
The idea behind this presentation is to put the spotlight on errors that need to be avoided when working in Agile mode.
 
You will find the program of the presentation by clicking on the following link: http://www.cftl.fr/JFTL/accueil/
 
Thanks to our speaker:
 
Laurent Bouhier
 
Laurent is a computer engineer with 20 years professional experience, including over 15 years in the testing field. Laurent graduated from Supélec, a multi-disciplinary engineering school. He is also a certified ISTQB Foundation Level trainer (certified Tester and Agile tester). He has participated in many development and testing projects at large institutions as well as for start-ups. He has also contributed to the open source "Squale" (Software QUALity Enhancement - a quality measurement tool for software that improves testing and code quality) open source project.  With Tom McCabe (the inventor of cyclomatic complexity) and others, he co-authored the article: "An Empirical Model for Continuous and Weighted Metric Aggregation".
 
For over 2 years, Laurent has been a regular speaker in both French and English at "Agile" events.  Agility and software testing have become his special area of expertise - he is a coach and trainer while also being an effective tester in Scrum projects.