From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f569d,a9a46b511600fec8,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf569d,public X-Google-Thread: f5d71,a9a46b511600fec8,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,a9a46b511600fec8,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,a9a46b511600fec8,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 110909,9f7dbb26bc99efed X-Google-Attributes: gid110909,public X-Google-Thread: fe117,a9a46b511600fec8,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfe117,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,a9a46b511600fec8,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,a9a46b511600fec8,start X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: sr@netcom.com (Software Research) Subject: QW'99, Technical Program Date: 1999/02/12 Message-ID: X-Deja-AN: 443450450 Sender: sr@netcom8.netcom.com Organization: ICGNetcom Followup-To: qw@soft.com Keywords: CONF: Quality Week Conference, QW'99, 24-28 May 1999, San Francisco Bay Area Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.browsers.ms-windows,comp.infosystems.www.users,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java,comp.multimedia,comp.object Date: 1999-02-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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 . 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" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- QW'99 ADVISORY BOARD ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- For QW'99 information point your browser to the Conference Website: Register online! All questions about QW'99 can be Emailed to qw@soft.com.