CONF: 12th Software Quality Week (QW'99) <http://www.soft.com/QualWeek/QW99>

CONF: 12th Software Quality Week (QW'99) <http://www.soft.com/QualWeek/QW99>

[Software Research]

The 12th Annual International Software Quality Week (QW'99) is being held
26-28 May 1999 in San Jose, California USA.  Two days of pre-conference
tutorials are 24-25 May 1999.

QW'99 provides a superb opportunity to join the leading software quality and
testing conference, get introductory and advanced training from the best
experts in the software quality field, and attend an extensive Exhibition with
over 35 vendors plus Vendor Technical Presentations and Vendor Demos.

The complete program for QW'99 can be found at the QW'99 Conference WebSite:
        <http://www.soft.com/QualWeek/QW99>

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (26-28 May 1999) address the Conference Theme "Facing the
Future" in a coordinated sequence of talks:

      * Martin Pol (IQUIP Informatica BV) "Facing the Future Means Facing Test
        Maturity"
      * Jeff Schuster (Rational) "Facing the Future: E-Commerce Quality and
        YOU!"
      * Cem Kaner (Attorney at Law) "Facing the Future: The Law"
      * Roger Sherman (Independent Consultant) "Facing the Future: Commercial
        Product Testing"
      * Jakob Nielsen (Nielsen Norman Group) "Facing the Future: Usability
        Aspects of Quality"
      * Brian Marick (RST) "Facing the Future: New Models for Test
        Development"
      * Boris Beizer (Independent Consultant) "The Mavin"

PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIALS (24-25 May 1999) are presented by world-famous
experts in their fields:

 A1/A2. Ed Kit & Hans Buwalda (Software Development Technologies) "Integrated
        Test Design and Automation"
    B1. John McGregor (Clemson University) "Testing Distributed Object
        Systems"
    B2. Thomas A. Drake (Coastal Research & Technology Consultant) "Measuring
        Object-Oriented Software Quality for C++ and Java"
    C1. Karen Bishop-Stone, CSTE, CSQA (Testware Associates, Inc.)  "Practical
        Software Test Case Design"
    C2. William Bently (mu_Research) "How to Test an Object: The Information
        Flow Approach"
    D1. Norman Schneidewind (Naval Postgraduate School) "Development and
        Maintenance Process Assessment Using Reliability, Risk, and Test
        Metrics"
    D2. John D. Musa (Independent Consultant) "Software Reliability
        Engineering:  More Reliable Software, Faster"
 E1/E2. Linda H. Rosenberg (Software Assurance Technology Center, NASA)
        "Writing High Quality Requirement Specifications"
 F1/F2. Boris Beizer (Independent Consultant) "An Overview of Testing: Unit,
        Integration, System Level"
    G1. Magdy Hanna (International Institute for Software Testing)
        "Establishing a Software Inspection Process"
    G2. Tom Gilb (Result Planning Limited) "Advanced Inspection"
 H1/H2. Robert Binder (RBSC Corporation) "Modal Testing Strategies for Object-
        Oriented Software"
    J1. Leonard Verhoef (Human Efficiency) "Improving Software Quality for
        Users"
    J2. Sally Drew (Tescom UK SST) "E-Commerce Testing -- The Clash of the
        Titans"
 K1/K2. Michael Deck (Cleanroom Software Engineering, Inc.)  "Requirements
        Analysis Using Formal Methods"

Complete descriptions of the Tutorials can be found on the Web at:
        <http://www.soft.com/QualWeek/QW99/qw99.program.html#T1>.

REGULAR PAPERS are organized into six parallel tracks:

      * Technology Track:  Innovative Tools, High-Assurance Systems,
        Maintenance Testing, Web Testing, Windows CE Testing, Data Flow
      * Applications Track:  Fault Density Methods, Technology Injection, E-
        Commerce Testing, OO Methods, Complex Systems
      * Tools & Solutions Track:  Automated Approaches, Critical Systems,
        Client/Server, Requirements, Big Systems, Avionics
      * Management Track:  Quality Cultures, Maturity Models, Process, Risk
        Assessment, Real-Life Lessons
      * QuickStart Mini-Tutorials:  Y2K Testing, Project Management, CMM, Test
        Automation, Risk Management, Interviewing Testers, OO Testing
      * Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions coordinated and chaired by Danny Faught
        and Brian Marick with topics such as:  Mass Market Software Testing,
        Medical and Safety Critical Application Testing, OS and Embedded
        System Testing Techniques, Testing Telecommunications Software,
        Testing for Military and Government Software, Status Report On U.S.
        Software Quality Laws, Blue Collar Formal Methods, Life as a New Test
        Manager, Care and Feeding of a Testing Career, Productivity In Small
        Integrated Teams, Client/Server Load Testing, and, Running a Nightly
        Test.
Complete descriptions of the entire Technical Program can be found on the Web
at:
        <http://www.soft.com/QualWeek/QW99/qw99.program.html#C1>.

EXHIBITION (26-27 May 1999) of over 35 software product and services vendors
including:  AutoTester, AZOR, Inc., Capital One Services, Cisco Systems, Inc.,
Computer Associates International, Compuware, CS VERILOG, Cyrano, Inc., Data
Dimensions, ErgoLight, Hall Kinion, Information Balance, Inc., Interim
Technology, International Institute for Software Testing, Intrinsa, KeyLabs,
McCabe & Associates, MicroCrafts, Ltd., Microsoft, Performance Research,
s.r.l. (ITALY), Q-Labs, Inc., Quantitative Software Management, Inc., Rational
Software, Reasoning, Inc., Soffront Software, Software Development
Technologies, Software Emancipation Technology, Inc., Software SETT
Corporation, Software Quality Engineering, Software Research, Inc., Sunpower
Computing, Technology Search International, Inc., Teradyne Software & Systems
Test, and, Testmasters, Inc.

Complete descriptions of the Exhibitors can be found on the Web at:
        <http://www.soft.com/QualWeek/QW99/qw99.exhibits.html>.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS and TUTORIAL NOTES are in printed form that include the
material used in the presentations, plus a CD-ROM containing all of the QW'99
Conference Presentations and expanded material including full technical papers
as supplied by the QW'99 authors.

ONLINE REGISTRATION is available at:
        <http://www.soft.com/QualWeek/QW99/qw99.register.html>

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