Munich, January 2006 – Wolfgang Kampe, Senior Consultant at imbus AG, took charge of the SoQrates Project's "Test" workgroup in mid January. SoQrates is a project set up to improve software development in mid-sized Bavarian companies. It enjoyed Bavarian state finance for the first year of its existence, and has been supported by the participating firms themselves for the last two years. The "Test" workgroup was...

January 2006 - The fifteenth OOP conference was dedicated to "Scalable Software Systems and Solutions“. The range of subjects was wide, ranging from requirements to process and quality themes, via modelling, architecture and implementation. For the first time, several presentations looked at mobile/embedded/RFID issues.

Andreas Spillner and Tilo Linz's book "Software Testing Foundations" will be published in February by dpunkt.verlag. Previously only available in German, the book forms the basis of the ISTQB® Certified Tester Foundation Level. It has been translated into English by Hans Schaefer, one of the world's most respected test experts.

Nuremberg, November 2005 - The ECMDA-FA will take place in Nuremberg for the first time from the 7th to the 10th of November. The conference is dedicated to promoting knowledge transfer and Model Driven Architecture®(MDA®) methods. The main goal of the conference is to strengthen dialog between European research and industry, making sure that future software is developed on the foundation of the very latest research. The organisers...

Nuremberg, October 2005 - imbus AG played host to the 13th Software QS-Day in Nuremberg on the 13th and 14th of October. This year's theme was "Quality by Process Improvement".

Munich, September 2005 - Last Tuesday, Bavaria's State Secretary of Commerce Hans Spitzner opened the 3rd World Congress for Software Quality in Munich. During a tour of the trade fair affiliated with this congress, he stopped at the stand of imbus AG to obtain the latest information on the subject of software quality and...

Moehrendorf, September 2005 - Last Wednesday, the first ever meeting of the Workgroup for Family-Friendly Companies took place at imbus AG's headquarters. A special guest was Eberhard Irlinger - the chief administrative officer of the local government. Representatives of commerce and politics signed a symbolic declaration of their willingness to stand up for family interests.

On July 1, 2005 - the International Software Testing Qualifications Board ISTQB approved a new syllabus for ISTQB® Certified Tester Foundation Level. Respected authors from seven countries were involved in developing the new edition.

July 2005 - The Federal Minister for Families visited imbus on Tuesday the twelfth of July to take a first hand look at the company's family-friendly set-up. The reason for her flying visit was imbus' participation at the national “Success Factor: Family 2005“ competition organised by the Federal Ministry for Families, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ) in co-operation with the Federal Ministry for Business...

Today we welcome the 1000th participant at an imbus Certified Tester Training course.