QW'98, Technical Program <http://www.soft.com/QualWeek/QW98>

QW'98, Technical Program <http://www.soft.com/QualWeek/QW98>

[Software Research]

    Announcing: QUALITY WEEK '98 (26-29 May 1998, San Francisco)

The final technical program for QW'98 is now available at the QW'98 
Conference WebSite <http://www.soft.com/QualWeek/QW98>.

Here are some highlights...

                           KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Dr. Cem Kaner (Attorney at Law) "Year 2000, How Can I Sue Thee? Oh, Let
Me Count the Ways"

Prof. Dave Parnas "Software Engineering: An Unconsummated Marriage" 

Dr. Boris Beizer (Independent Consultant) "Prioritizing Your Y2K Testing
Effort: Debunking the Special Date Myths"

Mr. Robert V. Binder (RBSC Corporation) "Testing Object-Oriented
Systems: Best Practices"

Mr. Dave Duchesneau (Boeing Commercial Airplane Group) "Design for Test
(Or, How to Make it Hard for the Pernicious Bugs to Hide)"

Mr. Robert L. Glass (Computing Trends) "The Software Crisis - Is it for
Real?"

                           TUTORIAL SPEAKERS

Dr. Boris Beizer (Independent Consultant) "An Overview of Testing --
Unit, Integration, System -- Outline and Index"

Mr. Robert V. Binder (RBSC Corporation) "Testing Strategies for Object-
Oriented Systems"

Mr. Michael Deck (Cleanroom Software Engineering, Inc.)  "How Testers
Can Use Formal Methods to Analyze and Improve Software Requirements
Specifications"

Mr. Tom Gilb (Independent Consultant) "Evolutionary Delivery Project
Management"

Mr. Hans-Ludwig Hausen (GMD German National Research Center for
Information Technology) "Software Metrics for Procedures, Objects and
Agents"

Mr. Ed Kit (Software Development Technologies) "Automating Software
Testing and Reviews"

Dr. Michael R. Lyu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) "Current
Techniques and Tools for Software Reliability Engineering"

Mr. John D. Musa (Independent Consultant) "More Reliable, Faster,
Cheaper Testing through Software Reliability Engineering"

Mr. Martin Pol (IQUIP Informatica B.V.)  "Test Process Improvement"

Dr. Linda Rosenberg & Mr. Larry Hyatt (Unisys/SATC GSFC NASA) "Metrics
for Quality Assurance and Risk Assessment"

                            REGULAR PAPERS

QW'98 features over 60 regular papers on such important topics as:

          Business Aspects        Reliability
          Coverage                Requirements Testing
          Criteria-Based Methods  Specifications
          Customer Satisfaction   Statistical Methods
          Defect Analysis         Test Automation
          Defect Tracking         Test Environments
          GUI Testing             Test Processes
          Java                    TestWare
          Metrics Feedback        Web Testing
          Process Improvement     WebSite Testing
          Real-World Experiences  Y2K Readiness, Testing
          Real-World Futures      Y2K/Euro Impacts

		            PANEL SESSION 

There will be a special Panel Session on "The Role of The Test Manager," 
co-chaired by Joanna Rothmann and Brian Lawrence

		       BIRDS OF FEATHER SESSIONS

QW'98 Birds of Feather sessions will be coordinated and chaired by 
Danny Faught (faught@rsn.hp.com) and Brian Marick (marick@testing.com).

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                         QW'98 ADVISORY BOARD
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James Bach (STL)                   Danny Faught (HP)
Boris Beizer (Analysis)            Istvan Forgacs (Hungarian Academy)
Fevzi Belli  (Univ. Paderborn)     Dick Hamlet (Portland State)
Bill Bently (Bayer)                Bill Howden (UC/San Diego)
Antonia Bertolino (IEI/CNR, Pisa)  Prof. Luqi (NPGS)
Robert Binder (RBSC, Inc.)         Brian Marick (Consultant)
Robert Birss (Intuit)              Edward Miller (SR)
Rita Bral (SR/Institute)           John Musa (Consultant)
Dirk Craeynest (OFFIS nv/sa)       Lee Osterweil (UMass)
Greg Daich (STC)                   Axel VanLamsweerde (UCL/Belgium)
Sylvia Daiqui (DLR)                Otto Vinter (Brel & Kjaer)
Tom Drake (NSA/BAH)                Tony Wasserman (Software Methods & Tools)
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		<http://www.soft.com/QualWeek/QW98>

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