Quality Week '96 (http://www.soft.com/QualWeek/)

[sr@netcom.com (Software Research)]

           NINTH INTERNATIONAL SOFTWARE QUALITY WEEK (QW'96)

                             21-24 May 1996
            Sheraton Palace Hotel, San Francisco, California

             CONFERENCE THEME: QUALITY PROCESS CONVERGENCE

Advances in technology have swept the computing industry to new heights
of innovation.  The astonishing growth of the InterNet and the WWW, the
maturation of client-server technology, and the emerging developments
with C++ and Sun's Java Language (tm) are illustrations of the rapid
deployment we are seeing the 1990s.  For software quality to keep track
of existing methods, approaches and tools have to be thought of in
well-structured ``process models'' that apply quality control and test
methods in a reasoned, practical way.

Quality Process Convergence - making sure that applied quality tech-
niques produce real results at acceptable costs - is the key to success.
The Ninth International Software Quality Week focuses on software test-
ing, analysis, evaluation and review methods that support and enable
process thinking.  Quality Week '96 brings the best quality industry
thinkers and practitioners together to help you keep the competitive
edge.

                          CONFERENCE SPONSORS

The QW'96 Conference is sponsored by SR Institute, in cooperation the
IEEE Computer Society (Technical Council on Software Engineering) and
the ACM.  Members of the IEEE and ACM receive a 10% discount off all
registration fees.

                     TECHNCIAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Pre-Conference Tutorial Day offers expert insights on ten key topic
areas.  The Keynote presentations give unique perspectives on trends in
the field and recent technical developments in the community, and offer
conclusions and recommendations to attendees.

The General Conference offers four parallel-track presentations, mini-
tutorials and a debate:

   General Technical Track Topics:  OO Testing, Specifications, Ada,
      Statistical Methods, Rule-Based Testing, Class Testing, Testabil-
      ity.

   General Applications Track Topics:  Decision Support, Mission-
      Critical, Innovative Process, Internal Risk, GUI Testing, New
      Approaches.

   General Management Track Topics:  QA Delivery, Testing Topics, Pro-
      cess Improvement - I, Process Improvement - II, Metrics to Reduce
      Risk, Process Improvement - III, Success Stories.

   Quick-Start Mini-Tutorial Track includes:  An Overview of Model
      Checking, Software Reliability Engineered Testing Overview, Teach-
      ing Testers: Obstacles and Ideas, Testing Object-Oriented Soft-
      ware: A Hierarchical Approach, Best Current Practices in Software
      Quality, A History of Software Testing and Verification, Software
      Testing: Can We Ship It Yet?


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                  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 1996 (TUTORIAL DAY)

Tutorial Day offers ten lectures in two time slots on current issues and
technologies.  You can choose one tutorial from each of the two time
slots.

      Tuesday, 21 May 1996, 8:30 - 12:00 -- AM Half-Day Tutorials

Mr. Robert V. Binder (System Consulting Inc.)  "Object-Oriented System
Testing: The FREE Approach"

Dr. Boris Beizer (ANALYSIS) "An Overview Of Testing Unit, Integration,
System"

Dr. Walt Scacchi (University of Southern California) "Understanding
Software Productivity"

Mr. Lech Krzanik (CCC Software Professionals Oy) "BOOTSTRAP: A European
Software Process Assessment and Improvement Method"

Mr. John D. Musa (AT&T Bell Labs) "Software Reliability Engineered Test-
ing"

       Tuesday, 21 May 1996, 1:30 - 5:00 -- PM Half-Day Tutorials

Mr. Hans-Ludwig Hausen (GMD Gesellschaft fur Mathematik und Datenverar-
beitung mbH) "Software Quality Evaluation and Certification"

Dr. Norman F. Schneidewind (Naval Postgraduate School) "Software Relia-
bility Engineering for Client-Server Systems"

Mr. William J. Deibler, Mr. Bob Bamford (Software Systems Quality Con-
sulting) "Models for Software Quality -- Comparing the SEI Capability
Maturity Model (CMM) to ISO 9001"

Mr. Dan Craigen, Mr. Ted Ralston (ORA Canada) "An Overview of Formal
Methods"

Mr. Tom Gilb (Independent Consultant) "Software Inspection"

             22-24 MAY 1996 -- QUALITY WEEK '96 CONFERENCE

         Wednesday, 22 May 1996, 8:30 - 12:00 -- OPENING KEYNOTES

   Mr. Walter Ellis (Or Equivalent) (Software Process and Metrics) "NSC:
   A Prospectus And Status Report (Keynote)"

   Mr. Tom Gilb (Independent Consultant) "The `Result Method' for Qual-
   ity Process Convergence (Keynote)"

   Prof. Leon Osterweil (University of Massachusetts Amherst) "Perpetu-
   ally Testing Software (Keynote)"

   Dr. Watts Humphrey (Carnegie Mellon University) "What if Your Life
   Depended on Software?" (Keynote)"

         Wednesday, 22 May 1996, 1:30 - 5:00 -- PM Parallel Tracks

Three regular parallel tracks with four papers per track: TECHNOLOGY,
   APPLICATIONS, MANAGEMENT.  (See the Conference Brochure for complete
   details.)

QUICK START TRACK MINI-TUTORIALS

   Mr. Daniel Jackson (Carnegie Mellon University) "An Overview of Model
   Checking"

   Mr. John D. Musa (AT&T Bell Labs) "Software Reliability Engineered
   Testing Overview"

S P E C I A L   E V E N T

   Dr. Boris Beizer, Mr. Tom Gilb (Independent Consultants) "Testing Vs.
   Inspection -- THE GREAT DEBATE"

         Thursday, 23 May 1996, 8:30 - 12:00 -- AM Parallel Tracks

Three regular parallel tracks with four papers per track: TECHNOLOGY,
   APPLICATIONS, MANAGEMENT.  (See the Conference Brochure for complete
   details.)

QUICK START TRACK MINI-TUTORIALS

   Mr. James Bach (STL) "Teaching Testers: Obstacles and Ideas"

   Mr. Shel Siegel (Objective Quality Inc.)  "Testing Object Oriented
   SW: A Hierarchical Approach"

         Thursday, 23 May 1996, 8:30 - 12:00 -- PM Parallel Tracks

Three regular parallel tracks with four papers per track: TECHNOLOGY,
   APPLICATIONS, MANAGEMENT.  (See the Conference Brochure for complete
   details.)

QUICK START TRACK MINI-TUTORIALS

   Mr. Tom Drake (NSA Software Engineering Center) "Best Current Prac-
   tices In Software Quality Engineering"

   Prof. Leon Osterweil, Dan Craigen (University of Massachusetts
   Amherst) "A History of Software Testing and Verification"

          Friday, 24 May 1996, 8:30 - 10:00 -- AM Parallel Tracks

Three regular parallel tracks with four papers per track: TECHNOLOGY,
   APPLICATIONS, MANAGEMENT.  (See the Conference Brochure for complete
   details.)

QUICK START TRACK MINI-TUTORIALS

   Mr. Roger W. Sherman, Mr. Stuart Jenine (Microsoft Corporation)
   "Software Testing: Can We Ship It Yet?"

           Friday, 24 May 1996, 10:30 - 1:00 -- CLOSING KEYNOTES

   Mr. Guenther R. Koch (European Software Institute) "The European
   Software Institute As A Change Agent (KEYNOTE)"

   Mr. Clark Savage Turner (Software Engineering Testing) "Legal Suffi-
   ciency of Safety-Critical Testing Process (Keynote)"

   Dr. Boris Beizer (ANALYSIS) "Software *is* Different KEYNOTE"

   Dr. Edward Miller (Software Research) "Conference Conclusion"

       R E G I S T R A T I O N   F O R   Q U A L I T Y   W E E K

Contact SR/Institute at Email: qw@soft.com; Phone: +1 (415) 957-1441;
FAX +1 (415) 957-0730.  Register for QW'96 electronically at
"http://www.soft.com/QualWeek/".