Sector/branch:                 

SW Engineering – Quality Control and Quality Assurance

Products/services:         

Training and Consulting in Testing and Quality Assurance

Key features of the
products/services :         

Focus on thinking patterns and practical skills.

Consulting and training in the following areas:
•    Test Process improvement
•    Risk Based Testing
•    Test Management
•    Defect Management
•    Effective and Efficient testing team(s) building
•    Testing design techniques
•    ISTQB-CTFL
•    ISTQB-CTAL (test manager, test analyst)
•    Communication & presentation skills for testers and testing leaders
•    Testing Project Audit
•    Health Check and TPI assessment

I'm looking to talk to startup companies that are in need of setting up their testing and quality assurance business/operation. From strategic consulting, to planning, management, automation and other important challenges they must be facing.

SIGiST is the Special Interest Group in Software Testing, that is maintained around the world in more than 10 countries

Most organizations are voluntary ones

Most of them are receiving membership  fee

All are getting sponsored by major players in the industry.

Sector/branch        Information Technology


Products/services  Software solutions, products and services

Key features of the products/services  

Off-Shore QA & Development services:
                                1.    ISRAEL
                                2.    Bulgaria/ Macedonia

Sector/branch          Automation Industrie, Mobile Automation

Products/services    PLCs, motors, Hardware, Software

Key features of the products/services

Efficient automation Solutions

Sector/branch R&D in ICT
FOKUS is a world-wide leading institute on ICT technologies and services
It has business fields on Next Generation Internet, New Telecommunication Services, Electronic Government, Model Driven Software and Systems Engineering, and on Smart Environments

Products/services    
Various R&D services and products made it to commercial deployment – examples are VoIP (SIP), 3GPP (IMS), Testing (TTCN-3)

Key features of the products/services
Leading edge research and development

Sector/branch

The Arbeitskreis Software-Qualität und -Fortbildung e.V. (ASQF, Working Group for Software Quality and Advanced Software Training) is the network of excellence for the software development industry in German-speaking European countries.  More than 550 globally active companies, high-performing small and medium-sized enterprises, specialists, institutions of higher education and research institutes are members of ASQF and are committed to ensuring quality standards in information and communication technology. 

Products/services

As an independent professional association, ASQF represents the interests of its members and sparks incentives for action in the economy and at the political level.  The association organizes and promotes the continuing discussion between specialists, executives and scientists in the field among themselves, and their communication with representatives of the political level and in public administration.  By meeting at regional software support bases and in themed expert groups throughout Germany, the people responsible for the quality of software in companies are no longer on their own.  In ASQF, they profit from a valuable network.

Sector/branch    Software

Products/services     The International Software Quality Institute (iSQI GmbH), headquartered in Erlangen and Potsdam, develops internationally accepted certification standards for advanced vocational training in the area of software quality.

Key features of the products/services
The advantages of personnel certification are primarily the secured, comparable qualification of professionals across national boundaries and language barriers. As an example: At present, in 35 countries on six continents software testers are certified based on the standards developed in Erlangen. The whole iSQI "Certified Program" includes standards for Software Test, Software Architecture, Project-, Configuration-, IT Security -, and Innovation Management, Requirements Engineering as well as for ISO/IEC 15504 SPICE Assessors and the TTCN-3-Certificate.

With its certification programs for further education, ASQF provides for standardized diplomas in many areas relevant to software quality, from testing to ISO compliant assessor qualifications according to iNTACS.

Seminars are held on the following topics:
•    Software Design
•    Management and Sales
•    Medical Technology
•    Process Engineering
•    Project Management
•    Requirements Engineering
•    Software Testing