Theory vs. Practice: Shall E'er the Twain Meet?
I just got a flyer for the Spring 2009 Software Test & Performance conference to be held in San Mateo from March 31 to April 2 this year. The faculty include:
| Paul Anderson | Chris Gottbrath | Joy Nandi |
| Dan Bartow | Michael Hackett | Kim Pries |
| Joe Basirico | Mukesh Jain | Jon Quigley |
| Ryan Berg | Jeff Johnson | Bj Rollison |
| Vitaly Bulgakov | David Kapfhammer | Chris Sims |
| Hans Buwalda | Ian Knox | Meera Subbarao |
| Nada daVeiga | Bill Loeb | Mary Sweeney |
| Lars Ewe | Brian Massey | Robert Walsh |
| Jeff Feldstein | Judy McKay | Alfred Wong |
| Bob Galen | Rick McPhee | Hon Wong |
As far as I can tell from DBLP, few if any of these 30 people publish in academic journals. Putting it another way, almost nobody who publishes academic work on quality assurance is going to be teaching at this conference, which will probably have more practitioners in attendance than every QA-related academic conference this year. sigh