Sharing knowledge

Mieke Gevers

Presentations

  • Co-Author and co-Presenter of the course „Testen ? Hoe doe je dat !“ – 1995-1996
  • “A c++ program, Highlights and Pitfalls.” – Rational User Conference 1997, Boston – management track
  • „Nightmare on SLA Street“ – IDC – Nordic IT Forum, 25. & 26. September 2001 in Copenhagen
  • Tutorial “Testing Internet Congestion “ – Eurostar 2001, Nov 19 – 23, Stockholm
  • “Plan the Test Plan” concerning Test planning and effective testing strategy – IIR – Workshop 30.5.2002 –Testing & Verification Conference – May, 28 – 30, Helsinki
  • “Is your web site performing “Good Enough”? “ -AsiaStar 2002 – July 22-24, Melbourne
  • “Load Testing the Tester? – A Methodology for Web Applications Performance Testing” and government “The Testing Enigma with High Security Websites and Applications – AsiaStar 2003 – July 14-16, Sydney
  • “Suivre et optimiser la qualité des sites Web” – Sysqual 2003 – Nov. 18-20, Paris, France
  • Tutorial“The Naked Truth about Performance!” – STeP-IN SUMMIT 2004: International Conference on Software Testing, January 8 -10, 2004, Bangalore, India
  • “Automation Tools and Exploratory Testing “Can The First Support the Second?”” – StarEast 2004 – May 19-23, Orlando
  • “ROI, are Testing Tools a benefit or a burden?” – SQAM 2004 – August 26-28, Warszawa, Poland
  • “Six Steps Towards Successful Load Testing” – “Automation Tools and Exploratory Testing “Can The First Support the Second?” – EuroStar 2004 – 29th Nov – 3 December 2004, Köln, Germany
  • “Can a fully automated end-to-end user monitoring solution influence Management operations and Management decisions?” – IIR – End2End Conference, 30 August 2005, Ahoy Amsterdam
  • Keynote “Transforming Application Quality Through Software Quality Optimization” at SQAM 2005, November 7-9, 2005 – Krakow, Poland
  • “Transforming Application Quality Through Software Quality Optimization” at QBIT, TestExpo, 27 April 2006, London
  • “Verbesserung von Anwendung’s Qualität durch Software Quality Optimization” at Borland’s Enterprise Essentials Conference – May 2-3, 2006, Power companiesberg, Germany
  • “Advanced Testing”, the open gate to Software Quality?” at SAST Q3 20th November 2007, Stockholm, Sweden
  • “Performance testing – the 10 steps methodology” at JTS 2008 Spain, 3 April 2008, Valencia, Spain
  • Tutorial/Workshop regarding Performance Testing “Performance & load in action” and the presentation “Advanced Testing, the gateway to software quality?” at SIGIST Israel, June 21-24 2008
  • Tutorial/workshop on Performance Testing “Performance & load in action” at Test2008 India, October 13-14 2008
  • “Performance Testing in 5 Steps: ‘A Guideline to a Successful Load Test” at Eurostar, November 10- 13, 2008, Den Hague
  • “Load testing foundation” – 2 Days workshop at Conquest, Nuremberg – 2009
  • ‘How to evaluate and justify the choice “open source tools versus commercial tools”’ – Keynote at FreeTest 2009, Trondheim, Norway
  • “Load testing foundation” – 2 Days workshop at FreeTest 2009, Trondheim, Norway
  • “Testing in the future!” Key Note at Belgium Testing Days 2009, Brussels
  • “How the Performance testing results can fool you!” (Keynote) and government “Can “Advanced Testing” bring innovation and quality closer together?” (Presentation) at International Conference of Quality and Software Testing” (CInTeQ 2010), 22 March 2010, San Paulo, Brazil
  • “Testing Dialogues: Automation Issues” co-presenting with Dorothy Graham at StarWest San Diego, 30th September, 2010
  • “Ever Been Fooled by Performance Testing Results? ” October 19 – Oct. 21, 2010 – Las Vegas, CA, United States
  • “Ever Been Fooled by Performance Testing Results?” at SIG UK Meeting, London – 16 September 2011.
  • “Performance Testing the SMART Way” – StarWest, Anaheim, CA – October 6, 2011
  • “Ever been fooled by performance testing results?” at FreeTest, Trondheim, Norway, 9 Mai, 2012
  • “Performance Testing the SMART Way” at ExpoQA, Madrid, Spain, 7 June 2012
  • „Crash Course on Test Automation: Performance Testing „ at KVIV, 2012
  • “Why Test Automation fails?!” – Keynote at Test Automation Day (ATI 2013), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June 2013
  • “The Stories from a Performance Tester”, KVIV – IENet, Antwerp, 19 September 2013
  • “Performance & Load Testing at a glance” – 1 Day Workshop & Presentation “Why Test Automation fails?!” ASTQB Conference, San Francisco, CA – March 2014
  • “Performance Testing in a brave new world”, “Testing as a Service”, “ Performance Testing in a Critical Cloudy world”, Performance Testing deep dive in the Mobile world” – SOFTEC Asia 2016, Kuala Lumpur
  • “Agile & Performance Testing a contradiction of terms” Lightning KeyNotes BTD 2016
  • “Agile & Performance Testing a contradiction of terms” – European Testing Conference 2016, Romenia – BCS SIGIST , London 2016
  • “Performance Testing under Pressure” – Hustef 2018 Budapest, Hongary
  • The Pandora Box – TestWarez 2018,  Zakopane Poland

Associations

  • EuroStar Test Conference Belgium Country Coordinator, 1998 – 2011
  • IEEE member, 1998 – 2011
  • Program Committee EuroStar Conference 2007, 2009
  • Co-Organiser & Program Chair of the international QA Conference „Belgium Testing Days”, 2009 & 2011 – present
  • Co-founder Belgium Testing Community, 2007 – 2016
  • IE-Net (KVIV Koninklijke Vereniging Ingenieurs Verbond), Board member of the Testing Group (SWT), 2008 – 2016
  • BNTQB (ISTQB) board member responsible for Marketing & Expert Level working groups– Since 2011, became the International Responsible for the BNTQB at the ISTQB Board.  Participating in working e.g. Marketing, Exams, Advanced Level & Expert Level (Test Automation), 2009 – Nov 2018
  • Editor ISO  29119 JTC1/SC27 – WG26 Performance Testing Standards, 2018 -present
  • Program Commitee Hustef Conference, 2019