Cluj, March 7. The Romanian Testing Community organises the first national conference dedicated to software testing and focused on knowledge sharing facilitated by 3 leading international speakers: Michael Palotas (Head of Quality Engineering Europe eBay International), Pawel Krawczyk (Application Security Manager AON Krakow) and Vesna Leonard (Project Test Coordinator Workx4You). ISDC supports actively this event as a Gold Partner and especially by facilitating free event participation for 15 very talented testers. To compete and win, please use the dedicated competition page on our corporate website and follow the progress and announcement of winners on ISDC Team Facebook page. Competition is opened during the interval 20-24 February. As announced, the conference will offer a practical way of interaction and sharing among testers and tackle latest industry trends, technology breakthroughs, and best practices. The invited speakers will address topics such as Test Automation – 10 (sometimes painful) lessons learned, Building a cost-benefit model for application security testing and TaaS – Testing as a Service, On-Demand and As-Needed. Andrei Ghinescu, conference co-organiser and coordinator from ISDC, talks about his initiative: “Together with my friend, Andrei Contan – QA Manager Betfair, we have decided to set up this testing community and organize regular conferences due to the lack of information sharing and networking within the Romanian community of professional testers. I really hope that our initiative will challenge software testers to compete but also share best practices and promote with enthusiasm their profession. This type of event will be a yearly event with international speakers and, in addition, we also think of even more practical sessions like workshops or seminars. We have promoted our event mainly online on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter but have noticed that the community is really alive since the best promotion was and is still done by people themselves. We have started this project out of passion and responsibility. Software testing is not a job that can be stolen but a job to be learned and shared. My sincere hope is that testers are willing to share their achievements and failures within our community that has reached by now 350 members.” Details related to the ISDC competition for free conference tickets can be consulted in the dedicated section on our corporate website. Your answers should be sent to TestingContest[at]isdc.eu. More about the conference: www.romaniatesting.ro/conference