QW'99, Technical Program <http://www.soft.com/QualWeek/QW99>

QW'99, Technical Program <http://www.soft.com/QualWeek/QW99>

[Software Research]

   Announcing: QUALITY WEEK '99 (24-28 May 1999, San Francisco Bay Area)

The final technical program for QW'99 is now available at the QW'99
Conference WebSite <http://www.soft.com/QualWeek/QW99/qw99.program.html>.

Here are some highlights...

                           KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Dr. Cem Kaner (Attorney at Law) "Facing the Future: The Law"

Mr. Martin Pol (IQUIP Informatica BV) "Facing the Future Means Facing Test
Maturity"

Mr. Roger Sherman (Independent Consultant) "Facing the Future: Commercial
Product Testing"

Dr. Jakob Nielsen (Nielsen Norman Group) "Facing the Future: Usability
Aspects of Quality"

Dr. Boris Beizer (Independent Consultant) "The Mavin"

                           TUTORIAL SPEAKERS

Mr. Ed Kit & Mr. Hans Buwalda (Software Development Technologies / CMG Finance) "Integrated Test Design and
Automation"

Dr. Boris Beizer (Independent Consultant) "An Overview of Testing: Unit,
Integration, System"

Mr. William Bently (Mu_Research) "How to Test an Object: The Information Flow
Approach"

Mr. Robert Binder (RBSC Corporation) "Modal Testing Strategies for Object-
Oriented Software"

Ms. Karen Bishop-Stone, CSTE, CSQA (Testware Associates, Inc.)  "Practical
Software Test Case Design"

Mr. Michael Deck (Cleanroom Software Engineering, Inc.)  "Requirements
Analysis Using Formal Methods"

Mr. Thomas A. Drake (Coastal Research & Technology Consultant) "Measuring
Object-Oriented Software Quality for C++ and Java"

Ms. Sally Drew (Tescom UK SGT) "E-Commerce Testing -- The Clash of the Titans"

Mr. Tom Gilb (Result Planning Limited) "Advanced Inspection"

Dr. Magdy Hanna (International Institute for Software Testing)
"Establishing a Software Inspection Process"

Dr. John D. Musa (Independent Consultant) "Software Reliability Engineering:
More Reliable Software, Faster"

Dr. Linda H. Rosenberg (Software Assurance Technology Center, NASA) "Writing
High Quality Requirement Specifications"

Dr. Norman Schneidewind (Naval Postgraduate School) "Development and
Maintenance Process Assessment Using Reliability, Risk, and Test Metrics"

Mr. John McGregor (Clemson University) "Testing Distributed Object Systems"

Mr. Leonard Verhoef (Human Efficiency) "Improving Software Quality for Users"

                            REGULAR PAPERS

QW'99 features over 80 regular track papers on important topics such as:

          Business Aspects        Reliability
          Test 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
	  E-Commerce		  Cryptographic Issues
	  Euro Conversion

                       BIRDS OF FEATHER SESSIONS

QW'99 Birds of Feather sessions are being coordinated and chaired by
Danny Faught (faught@rsn.hp.com) and Brian Marick (marick@testing.com).

Ms. Elisabeth Hendrickson (Aveo, Inc.)  "Mass Market Software Testing"

Ms. Peggy Fouts (Compuware Corporation ) "Medical and Safety Critical
Application Testing"

Mr. Mark S. Wiley (nCUBE) "OS and Embedded System Testing Techniques"

Mr. Larry Apfelbaum (Teradyne Software & Systems Test) "Testing
Telecommunications Software"

Mr. Jon Hagar (Lockheed Martin Astronautics Company) "Testing for Military and
Government Software"

Mr. Cem Kaner (Independent Consultant) "Status Report On U.S. Software Quality
Laws"

Mr. Richard Denney (Landmark Graphics) "Blue Collar Formal Methods"

Ms. Johanna Rothman (Rothman Consulting Group, Inc.)  "Life as a New Test
Manager"

Mr. Rodney Wilson (KLA-Tencor) "Care and Feeding of a Testing Career"

Mr. Mark Johnson (OrCAD) "Productivity In Small Integrated Teams"

Mr. Mark D. Anderson (Discerning Software Corporation) "Client/Server Load
Testing"

Ms. Carla Oexmann (Chromatic Research) "Running a Nightly Test"

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                         QW'99 ADVISORY BOARD
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Frank Ackerman (Consultant)        Dick Hamlet (Portland State)
Tim Anderson (Segue)               Neil Hunt (Rational)
Larry Apfelbaum (Teradyne)         Bill Howden (UC/San Diego)
Walter Baziuk (Nortel)             Andre Kok (CMG)
Boris Beizer (Analysis)            Brian Marick (RST)
Bill Bently (mu-Research)          Edward Miller (SR)
Larry Bernstein (Consultant)       John Musa (Consultant)
Antonia Bertolino (IEI/CNR, Pisa)  Emilia Peciola (Ericsson)
Robert Binder (RBSC, Inc.)         Martin Pol (IQUIP)
Robert Birss (Intuit)              Rob Schultz (Motorola)
Jack Bishop (SVN)                  Antonio Serra (QualityLab)
Rita Bral (SR/Institute)           Keith Stobie (BEA Systems)
Lori Clarke (UMass)                Otto Vinter (Bruel & Kjaer)
Tom Drake (NSA/BAH)                Tony Wasserman (Software Methods & Tools)
Walt Ellis (SW Metrics)            Lee White (CWRU)
William Everett (SPRE)             Hakan Wickberg (Volvo)
Danny Faught (HP)
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