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,69eb244f02584fbe,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf569d,public X-Google-Thread: f5d71,69eb244f02584fbe,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,69eb244f02584fbe,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,69eb244f02584fbe,start X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fe117,69eb244f02584fbe,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfe117,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,69eb244f02584fbe,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,69eb244f02584fbe,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 110909,fae03f873e3addf6 X-Google-Attributes: gid110909,public From: sr@netcom.com (Software Research) Subject: CONF: 12th Software Quality Week (QW'99) Date: 1999/04/30 Message-ID: X-Deja-AN: 472874636 Sender: sr@netcom10.netcom.com Organization: SR/Institute Followup-To: qw@soft.com Keywords: Quality Week, QW'99, 24-28 May 1999, San Jose, California USA 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: 1999-04-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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: 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: . 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: . 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: . 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: COMPLETE INFORMATION or to register by phone or by mail is available from: SR/Institute 901 Minnesota Street San Francisco, CA 94107 USA Phone: +1 (800) 942-SOFT (7638) +1 (415) 947-1441 FAX: +1 (415) 957-0730 E-Mail: qw@soft.com Web: