Testing Industrialization is a key issue for Test Center of Excellence and all Testing Organizations, to master productivity and quality of delivery, to reduce costs and to obtain replicable results.  This keynote presents the key factors of success in terms of team organization, methods, qualification of people and structured process;   it shows that Model-based testing, the process for the automatic derivation of abstract test cases from behavior models, is a key enabler to functional testing industrialization. Finally, this keynote describes some real business cases of testing industrialization.

Pr. Dr. Bruno Legeard, co-founder and CTO of Smartesting, is internationally recognized as an expert and a well known speaker in the model-based testing field. He has given keynotes at numerous testing and software engineering conferences. He is experienced in deploying model-based testing solutions both in enterprise information systems area and in the embedded systems field. At Smartesting, Pr. Legeard is responsible for the vision and product management of Smartesting automated test generation technology.

Pr. Legeard began his career in the mid 80’s as a principal software engineer at CR2A working on rapid prototyping and artificial intelligence technique. He was in charge of the department of Artificial Intelligence in CR2A from 1985 to 1989. He became a Professor in Software Engineering at The University of Franche-Comté, France, leading the “Smart Testing” project, developing unique model-based testing technologies, and conducting experiments with success on various industrial projects.

Pr. Legeard wrote the seminal book Practical model-based testing – A tools approach, published by Morgan & Kaufmann in December 2006, with Dr. Mark Utting. He also wrote, in French, a book on Software testing industrialization – From business requirements to automated tests, publisher by Dunod in April 2009, with Pr. Bouquet and Mrs. Pickaert.

Pr. Legeard earned his Master of Science Degree in Software Engineering and his PhD in Computer Science from INSA Lyon, France.