Workshop "Test Driven Development"  was held on May, 11 at the 10^th International Conference "Information Technologies and Management" in the International University of Information Technologies in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Workshop was conducted by senior researcher of Software Engineering Department of Institute for System Programming RAS Nicholay Pakulin for students and staff of the International University of Information Technologies.

On April, 25 on the All-Russian Scientific Conference on Informatics СПИСОК-2012, Head of Software Engineering Department of Institute for System Programming RAS, Full Professor of System Programming Chair, Computer Science Department of Moscow State University, Dr. Alexander K. Petrenko made a presentation on "Models for the programs development - for business or a hobby?"

Model Based Testing Workshop, organized by Alexander Petrenko (ISP RAS, Russia) in collaboration with Holger Schlingloff (Fraungofer FIRST, Germany) was held on March, 25 at the ETAPS 2012 conference in Tallinn. Ina Schieferdecker, Head of the Competence Center for Modeling and Testing (MOTION) at the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS), Berlin made a presentation on the topic “Model-Based Security Testing”. From Software Engineering Department of ISP RAS Yevgeny Gerlits made a presentation about “Model-Based Testing of Safety Critical Real-Time Control Logic Software”.