<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>LASER Summer School on Software Engineering<br><br>Software Testing: The Practice And The Science<br>September 6-12, 2009<br>Elba Island, Italy<br><br><a href="http://laser.inf.ethz.ch">http://laser.inf.ethz.ch</a> <<a href="http://laser.inf.ethz.ch/">http://laser.inf.ethz.ch/</a>><br>Registration Open<br><br><br>Goals<br>The LASER school is intended both for researchers (including PhD<br>students) and for professional software engineers and managers who want<br>to benefit from the best in software<br>technology advances. The focus of LASER is resolutely practical,<br>although theory is welcome to establish solid foundations. The format of<br>the school favors extensive interaction<br>between participants and speakers.<br><br>Topics and speakers<br><br>Testing used to be the dirty secret of software development: practiced by<br>everyone as the main technique of quality assurance, but without a serious<br>scientific foundation. This is no longer the case; research in recent years<br>has brought considerable advances to the theory of testing and the quality<br>of testing tools. The LASER 2009 summer school presents these advances, both<br>theoretical and practical, addressing the science of testing as well as the<br>concrete solutions available to development teams. <br><br>The seven speakers are among the top international experts in the field from<br>both academia and industry, having brought major contributions to the<br>progress of testing techniques.<br><br>The program both for industry practitioners who want to improve their<br>testing process and to scientists who want to explore the concepts in depth<br>and find new research ideas.<br><br>The speakers are among the most respected experts in the field:<br><br>* Alberto Avritzer, Siemens<br>* Michel Cukier, University of Maryland<br>* Yuri Gurevich, Microsoft Research<br>* Bertrand Meyer, ETH Zurich and Eiffel Software<br>* Tom Ostrand, AT&T<br>* Mauro Pezzè, University of Milano Bicocca<br>* Elaine Weyuker, AT&T<br><br>How to apply?<br><br>Use the online registration form available on the LASER website<br><a href="http://laser.inf.ethz.ch/">http://laser.inf.ethz.ch</a></div><div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> Martin Nordio</div><div>--</div><div>Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland<br><a href="http://se.inf.ethz.ch/people/nordio/">http://se.inf.ethz.ch/people/nordio/</a>, phone: +41 44 63 20297</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>