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The renovations are finished, so this time on the rooftop terrace

The renovation work at the oose.campus is completed, and we can finally use the rooftop terrace for the Barcamp. Therefore, the Barcamp will take place again at Schomburgstraße 50 in Hamburg-Altona.

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The eighth QS-Barcamp

Now we're entering the eighth round with our QS-Barcamp. The years before have shown: it's incredibly fun to spend two days in inspiring exchange with quality-conscious and testing enthusiasts.

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Our guests

Martin Heininger & August Weiss (HEICON Global Engineering GmbH)

Title: AI-based generation of test case definitions from natural language requirements

Content: The automatic derivation of test cases from textual requirements is a much-discussed topic in Requirements Engineering. Previous studies on this topic show sobering results and tend to exclude such automation.

In our presentation, a new approach will be introduced, which was developed and investigated as part of a master's thesis. This was supervised by Vector Informatik GmbH. A machine learning model was trained to extract test-relevant attributes from natural language requirement texts. Such attributes can be parameters, their values, and possible initial conditions. The requirements used are real safety-critical requirements exported from an aviation project. These requirements must comply with standards such as DO-178C and are therefore semi-formally specified. This characteristic enabled the creation of a dataset on which the machine learning model was trained. In the further course, the attributes collected from the requirements can be processed along with the remaining texts to achieve the ultimate goal of automated test case generation. Until then, the interim results can be used to support requirements and testing engineers. The presentation will discuss the results and describe the challenges.

Finally, we will show what capabilities well-known AI models, such as ChatGPT, already possess, but also in which areas current models still have weaknesses. We will discuss how AI could simplify the bridge between requirements and testing and what opportunities exist in this exciting field.

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For eternity

Please remember and spread the word: As decided by the participants at the first QS-Barcamp, the first weekend in September every year is QS-Barcamp weekend.

We have also discussed the option of further Barcamps but do not have the capacity to prepare them organizationally and logistically.

If you are interested in supporting the organizing team, please feel free to contact us or email Maximilian Voigt at maximilian.voigt@oose.de.

Follow us on Twitter now at #QScamp

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Agenda?

Sorry, we have to disappoint you: we don't have an agenda. True to the Barcamp principles, we turn traditional conference formats upside down. Who gets to participate? Everyone who wants to have a say. What's the result? Lots of food for thought, plenty of inspiration, constructive solutions, great contacts, and a lot of fun. You can read our rules in the Code of Conduct.

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Are you a student?

Apply for one of our student tickets. What do you need to do? Simply scan your student ID and send it via email with the subject line "Free Ticket QS-Barcamp" to maximilian.voigt@oose.de. Hurry, because the early bird principle applies here.