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+======= Testing Techniques Newsletter (TTN) =======+
+======= ON-LINE EDITION =======+
+======= August 1998 =======+
+===================================================+
TESTING TECHNIQUES NEWSLETTER (TTN), Online Edition, is E-mailed monthly
to support the Software Research, Inc. (SR)/TestWorks user community and
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appears with it in all copies. (c) Copyright 1998 by Software Research,
Inc.
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
o 2nd International Quality Week Europe Program Details
o Getting Requirements Right, by Larry Bernstein
o The WebSite Quality Challenge (Part 2 of 2)
o Quality Grades for Software Components
o SR's Software Quality Portal
o Updated IEEE Software Engineering Standards Users Group Web Page
o Software Quality WWWBoard
o Workshop on Reliability Modeling and Analysis: From Theory to
Practice
o "Summer Special" TestWorks Pricing
o Millennium Panic (A Poem)
o Call for Papers: International Conference on Reliable Software
Technologies (Ada/Europe), June 1999, Santander, Spain
o TTN Submittal Policy
o TTN SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION
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2nd International Quality Week Europe (QWE'98)
9-13 November 1998
Brussels, Belgium
<http://www.soft.com/QualWeek/QWE98>
The International Advisory Board for QWE'98 is pleased to announce the
Technical Program for the 2nd International Quality Week Europe
(QWE'98), being held in Brussels, Belgium, 9-13 November 1998.
The conference theme, "EURO & Y2K: The Industrial Impact" will be the
central coordinating idea behind the event. The program includes:
o 11 Full-Day and Half-Day Tutorials.
o 39 regular technical papers in Technology, Tools and Solutions, and
Process/Management tracks.
o A full two-day sequence of vendor-demo sessions.
o A special panel session devoted to the EURO and Y2K issue.
The Conference also features five keynote speakers who will address
particular industrial and technical issues of the EURO & Y2K efforts.
The complete technical program can be found at the Conference WebSite.
Copies of the Conference Brochure and other information are available
from <qw@soft.com>.
Quality Week conference content is selected and assured by a
distinguised International Advisory Board. QWE98's Board is composed
roughly 2/3 from Europe and 1/3 from the USA; the Members are (in
alphabetic order):
Boris Beizer (Analysis) USA
Bill Bently (Consultant) USA
Antonia Bertolino (IEI/CNR) Italy
Robert Binder (RBSC) USA
Juris Borzovs (Riga) Latvia
Rita Bral (SR/Institute) USA [Executive Director]
Bart Broekman (IQUIP) Netherlands
Adrian Burr (tMSc) England
Gunther Chrobok-Diening (Siemens) Germany
Ann Combelles (Objectif) France
Dirk Craeynest (OFFIS+K.U.Leuven) Belgium
Tom Drake (CRTI) USA
Franz Engelmann (Synlogic) Switzerland
John Favaro (Intecs) Italy
Mario Fusani (IEI/CNR) Italy
Marie-Claude Gaudel (LRI) France
Guenter Koch (ARCS) Austria
Peter Liggesmeyer (Siemens) Germany
Edward Miller (SR/Institute) USA [General Chair]
John Musa (Consultant) USA
Lee Osterweil (U.Mass) USA
Martin Pol (GITEK) Belgium
Suzanne Robertson (Atlantic) England
Giuseppe Satriani (ESI) Spain
Tobjorn Skramstad (NUST) Norway
Andreas Spillner (Hochs.-Bremen) Germany
Tor Staalhane (SINTEF) Norway
Erik VanVeenendaal (Improve Quality Service & T.U.E.) Netherlands
Otto Vinter (Brel & Kjaer) Denmark
Tony Wasserman (SWM&T) USA
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GETTING REQUIREMENTS RIGHT: Pointer to Boehm's Article
by
Larry Bernstein
A major problem facing software projects is getting the requirements
right and keeping them in step with changing customer understanding.
Barry Boehm and others at USC have written a wonderful article that
solves this problem in the July IEEE Computer magazine (page 33), "Using
the WinWin Spiral Model: A Case Study."
It is easy to read and describes breakthrough technology for
establishing what the customer needs and building the essential ties
with the customer so necessary for a smashing success. The key points
they make are:
1. Having a tool to track customer/user/designer negotiations
establishes trust and leads to useful projects. My experience is
that this alone doubles productivity of the development team. They
have a proven tool you can use.
2. Using the Unified Modeling Language can reduce requirements
documentation by one-third. I am so excited by this tool that I am
introducing to my students in the Information Networks course I teach
at Stevens.
3. Architecture Reviews lead to innovative projects that are produced on
time with few design imbalances. I used this practice for ten years.
If you do not have a copy of the magazine you can check out their web
page at <http://computer.org/computer>.
Barry is the director of the Center for Software Engineering at the
University of Southern California. If your shop is not an associate it
should be! -LB
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The WebSite Quality Challenge (Part 2 of 2)
Edward Miller
Note: Part 1 of this item appeared in the May 1998 issue. For it, or
for any prior article in TTN-online, you can go to:
<http://www.soft.com/News/TTN-Onine/index.html>
where the archive of prior TTN-Online issues is kept.
ABSTRACT
Because of its possible instant worldwide audience a WebSite's quality
and reliability are crucial. The very special nature of the WWW and
WebSites pose unique software testing challenges. Webmasters, WWW
applications developers, and WebSite quality assurance manages need
tools and methods that can match up to the new needs. Mechanized
testing via special purpose WWW testing software offers the potential to
meet these challenges.
o o o o o o o o
ASSURING WEBSITE QUALITY AUTOMATICALLY
Assuring WebSite quality requires conducting sets of tests,
automatically and repeatably, that demonstrate required properties and
behaviors. Here are some required elements of tools that aim to do
this.
TEST SESSIONS.
Typical elements of tests involve these characteristics:
o BROWSER INDEPENDENT.
Tests should be realistic, but NOT be dependent on a particular
browser, whose biases and characteristics might mask a WebSite's
problems.
o NO BUFFERING, CACHING.
Local caching and buffering -- often a way to improve apparent
performance -- should be disabled so that timed experiments are
a true measure of the Browser-Web-WebSite-Web-Browser response
time.
o FONTS AND PREFERENCES.
Most browsers support a wide range of fonts and presentation
preferences, and these should not affect how quality on a
WebSite is assessed or assured.
o OBJECT MODE.
Edit fields, push buttons, radio buttons, check boxes, etc. All
should be treatable in object mode, i.e. independent of the
fonts and preferences.
Object mode operation is essential to protect an investment in
tests and to assure tests' continued operation when WebSite
pages change. When buttons and form entries change location --
as they often do -- the tests should still work.
When a button or other object is deleted, that error should be
sensed! Adding objects to a page clearly implies re-making the
test.
o TABLES AND FORMS.
Even when the layout of a table or form varies in the browser's
view, tests of it should continue independent of these factors.
o FRAMES.
Windows with multiple frames ought to be processed simply, i.e.
as if they were multiple single-page frames.
TEST CONTEXT.
Tests need to operate from the browser level for two reasons:
(1) this is where users see a WebSite, so tests based in browser
operation are the most realistic;
(2) tests based in browsers can be run locally or across the Web
equally well. Local execution is fine for quality control, but
not for performance measurement work, where response time
INCLUDING Web-variable delays reflective of real-world usage is
essential.
WEBSITE VALIDATION PROCESSES
Confirming validity of what is tested is the key to assuring WebSite
quality -- and is the most difficult challenge of all. Here are four
key areas where test automation will have a significant impact.
OPERATIONAL TESTING.
Individual test steps may involve a variety of checks on individual
pages in the WebSite:
o PAGE QUALITY.
Is the entire page identical with a prior version? Are key
parts of the text the same or different?
o TABLE, FORM QUALITY.
Are all of the parts of a table or form present? Correctly laid
out? Can you confirm that selected texts are in the "right
place".
o PAGE RELATIONSHIP.
Are all of the links a page mentions the same as before? Are
there new o r missing links?
o PERFORMANCE, RESPONSE TIMES.
Is the response time for a user action the same as it was
(within a range)?
TEST SUITES.
Typically you may have dozens or hundreds (or thousands?) of tests, and
you may wish to run tests is a variety of modes:
o UNATTENDED TESTING.
Individual and/or groups of tests should be executable singly or
in parallel from one or many workstations.
o BACKGROUND TESITNG.
Tests should be executable from multiple browsers running "in
the background" [on an appropriately equipped workstation].
o DISTRIBUTED TESTING.
Independent parts of a test suite should be executable from
separate workstations without conflict.
o PERFORMANCE TESTING.
Timing in performance tests should be resolved to 1 millisecond
levels; this gives a strong basis for averaging data.
o RANDOM TESTING.
There should be a capability for randomizing certain parts of
tests.
o ERROR RECOVERY.
While browser failure due to user inputs is rare, test suites
should have the capability of resynchronizing after a error.
CONTENT VALIDATION.
Apart from how a WebSite responds dynamically, the content should be
checkable either exactly or approximately. Here are some ways that
should be possible:
o STRUCTURAL.
All of the links and anchors match with prior "baseline" data.
Images should be characterizable by byte-count a file type.
o CHECKPOINTS, EXACT REPRODUCTIONS.
One or more text elements -- or even all text elements -- in a
page should be markable as "required to match".
o GROSS STATISTICS.
Page statistics (e.g. line, word, byte-count, checksum, etc.).
o SELECTED IMAGES/FRAGMENTS.
The tester should have the option to rubber band sections of
images and require that the image match.
LOAD SIMULATION.
Load analysis needs to proceed by having a special purpose browser act
like a human user. This assures that the performance checking
experiment indicates true performance -- not performance on simulated
but unrealistic conditions.
Sessions should be recorded live or edited from live recordings to
assure faithful timing. There should be adjustable speed up and slow
down ratios and intervals.
Load generation should proceed from:
o SINGLE BROWSER.
One session played on a browser with one or multiple responses.
Timing data should be put in a file for separate analysis.
o MULTIPLE INDEPENDENT BROWSERS.
Multiple sessions played on a multiple browsers with one or
multiple responses. Timing data should be put in a file for
separate analysis. Multivariate statistical methods may be
needed for a complex but general performance model.
o MULTIPLE COORDINATED BROWSERS.
This is the most-complex form -- two or more browsers behaving
in a coordinated fashion. Special synchronization and control
capabilities have to be available to support this.
SITUATION SUMMARY
All of these needs and requirements impose constraints on the test
automation tools used to confirm the quality and reliability of a
WebSite. At the same time they present a real opportunity to amplify
human tester/analyst capabilities. Better, more reliable WebSites
should be the result.
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Quality Grades for Software Components
Work on the IEEE Computer Society draft of "Quality Grades For Software
Component Source Code Packages" continues.
After a hiatus brought on by the chair's other personal commitments, the
work on this standard is continuing. A link to draft 0.1 can be found
at www.izdsw.org. Comments on this draft are currently being processed
and posted to the study group's discussion log. Those with casual
interest in this effort can register as Interested Parties. Those who
would like to participate can sign on as Contributing Participants.
Respond to <a.f.ackerman@ieee.org>.
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WWW Resources: HotList
Access the Software Quality HotList with over 600 links to the WWW's
technical resources in software quality and testing technology
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Education:
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Learn the latest technology at SR/Institute's Quality Week
Conferences:
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Study the "Top 96" QualitySource technical reference books:
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Look at SR's unique Quality Process Architecture for an indication
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Complete information and technical help about TestWorks is
available from "info@soft.com".
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Updated IEEE Software Engineering Standards
Users Group Web Page
We have just updated the IEEE Software Engineering Standards Users Group
(SESUG) Web Page:
<http://www.computer.org/standard/sesc/sesug.htm>
Your participation in sharing standards-related questions, comments,
concerns, lessons learned, and best practices is solicited.
Please stop by and visit!!
Thanks,
Paul Croll, Chair,
IEEE SESUG
<pcroll@computer.org>
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Software Quality WWWBoard
CASQ has just set up a WWWBoard for Software Quality at:
<http://www.casq.org/talkboard/>
Your participation in sharing technical questions, products&tools,
comments, job postings, resume postings is solicited.
A website-link with "logo" for Software Quality is also available at
http://www.casq.org/cgi-bin/links.cgi>; please recommend hot websites
for software quality there. Please reduce the "logo" to 90(w)X60(h)
pixels or contact <webmaster@casq.org> to do that for you.
Thank you very much.
Joseph Chu
<jchu@casq.org>
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Workshop on Reliability Modeling and Analysis: From Theory to Practice
November 3, 1998 National University of Singapore, Singapore
Chairman: Prof DNP Murthy, University of Queensland, Australia
Keynote speaker: Prof RE Barlow, University of California - Berkeley,
USA
A workshop on reliability analysis and applications is planned on Nov 3
1998. We are planning to have a full-day program with sessions dealing
with recent advances in reliability theory and application.
Contributions are solicited on, but not limited to, these topics
Reliability models Failure data analysis
Reliability testing Bayesian methods in reliability
Repair/replacement policies Reliability-centered maintenance
Repairable system reliability Software reliability
and all aspects of reliability engineering applications
Please send an extended abstract to Dr M. Xie, ISEXIEM@NUS.EDU.SG as
soon as possible.
Workshop fee:
Participants - S$160
Speakers - S$100
Students - S$60
There will be a $20 early registration reduction for those register by 1
Oct 1998. All payment should be made payable to "The National University
of Singapore".
Key dates:
Abstract 15 Aug 1998
Acceptance decision 1 Sept 1998
Final paper 1 Oct 1998.
Requests for additional information can be sent to:
Dr M. Xie
Dept of Industrial and Systems Engineering
National University of Singapore
Singapore 119 260
E-mail: ISEXIEM@NUS.EDU.SG
Fax: + 65 777 1434
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As part of this rollout we are offering special Summer '98 pricing on
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o One TestWorks/Windows seat for only $200 more than the regular
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Millennium Panic (A Poem)
Michael H. Brill, 5 June 1998
The Bug hangs off in distant skies
And stares with double-O for eyes,
Between my digits now. But soon,
It hides itself behind the moon.
Emerging on the other side--
New-grown, and much too large to hide--
It grows again. I see it nears,
Igniting all my primal fears.
(But no-one else sees this display;
They're deep into their business day.)
With jaws agape and wings unfurled,
This Bug's about to eat the world!
Now sages see the ghastly form,
And mumble that it's just the norm:
"The 'Bug' is just a trick of lights,
A cloud of dust, or must--or mites."
As evening comes, arachnid pall,
It scarcely dims the sun at all.
Though jaws envelop all the sky,
I see through them the planets fly.
Orion studs the frigid night.
I feel no heat; I find no light.
Our world, the lifeblood that we've prized
With digitalis paralyzed.
The ichor from the jaws has spread
In smaller things beside my bed.
Outside, crowds mad with fear and pain,
For lack of power their kin have slain.
As gun-filled hands my door break through,
The sages' echoes all ring true.
"They're right," I sigh with my last breath.
"A cloud of 'mights' has brought my death."
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CALL FOR PAPERS
International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies
Ada-Europe'99
June 7-11, 1999 - Santander, Spain
<http://www.ada-europe.org/conference99.htm>
Sponsored by Ada-Europe, in cooperation with Ada-Spain and ACM SIGAda
(approval pending)
General Information
The international conference of Ada-Europe, the European federation of
national Ada societies, will take place next year in Santander, Spain,
from June 7 to 11, 1999. The full conference will comprise a three-day
technical programme and exhibition from Tuesday to Thursday, and
parallel workshops and tutorials on Monday and Friday.
For more information, visit the conference Web page at:
<http://www.ada-europe.org/conference99.htm>
About Santander
Santander is a beautiful city located in the North Coast of Spain, in
the region of Cantabria. It enjoys an extraordinary landscape mainly due
to its coastal location, forming a peninsula surrounded by a bay, and
its cliff coastline open to the Bay of Biscay. But perhaps the beaches
are its best known and appreciated natural spaces. Its sinuous outline
offers both small and large sandy beaches: some sheltered from the wind
and with calm waters; others, open to the Bay of Biscay, with more surf.
Next to these and between them, green spaces of great beauty look to the
coast.
Schedule
20 November 1998: Submission of extended abstracts
and tutorial or workshop proposals
15 January 1999 : Notification to authors
18 March 1999 : Final papers (camera-ready) required
7-11 June 1999 : Conference
Submissions
Authors are invited to submit original contributions. Submissions should
be in English. An extended abstract (4-6 pages) or the full paper
should be sent by e-mail to one of the Programme Co-Chairs in HTML, PDF,
Postscript or ASCII format. Submissions by other electronic formats,
such as a word processor source file, or by fax are not accepted. If
electronic submission is not available, please send five paper copies to
one of the Program Co-Chairs.
Awards
There will be two awards, sponsored by Ada-Europe:
Best paper award: 500.- Euros
Best presentation award: 500.- Euros
Topics
The conference will provide an international forum for researchers,
developers and users of reliable software technologies. Presentations
and discussions will cover applied and theoretical work currently
conducted to support the development and maintenance of software
systems. Participants will include practitioners and researchers from
industry, academia and government.
For papers, tutorials, and workshop proposals, the topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:
- Management of Software Development and Maintenance: Methods,
Techniques and Tools.
- Software Quality: Quality Management and Assurance, Verification,
Validation and Testing of Software Systems.
- Software Development Methods and Techniques: Requirements
Engineering, Object-Oriented Technologies, Formal Methods, Software
Management Issues, Re-engineering and Reverse Engineering, Reuse.
- Software Architectures: Patterns for Software Design and Composition,
Frameworks, Component and Class Libraries, Component Design.
- Tools: CASE Tools, Software Development Environments, Compilers,
Browsers, Debuggers.
- High Integrity Systems: Real-Time Systems, Distributed Systems,
Fault-Tolerant Systems, Safety-Critical Systems. Communications,
Manufacturing, Avionics, Space, Railway, Industry.
- Ada Language and Tools: Programming Techniques, Object-Oriented
Programming, Bindings and Libraries, Evaluation and Comparison
of Languages.
- Ada Experience Reports: Management Approaches, Metrics, Comparisons
with past or parallel Experiences in non-Ada Projects.
- Education and Training: Ada in Secondary or College Education.
- Case Studies and Experiments.
Call for Tutorials
A tutorial should address any of the topics of the theme of the
conference. A tutorial will last a half or full day. The proposals
should include a title, an abstract, a description of the topic, a
detailed outline of the presentation, a description of the presenter's
teaching experience in general and with the proposed topic, duration
(half day or full day), level of the tutorial (introductory,
intermediate, or advanced), expected audience experience and background.
Proposals should be submitted by e-mail to the Tutorial Chair.
Call for Workshops
Half- and full-day workshops can be held to address timely issues or to
initiate a longer term effort on a topic of interest. Proposals should
be submitted by e-mail to one of the Programme Co-Chairs.
Organization
Programme Committee
- Angel Alvarez, Technical University of Madrid
- Lars Asplund, Uppsala University
- Paul A. Bailes, The University of Queensland
- Ted Baker, Florida State University
- Brad Balfour, Objective Interface
- Stephane Barbey, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
- John Barnes, JBI
- Johann Blieberger, Technical University Vienna
- Jim Briggs, University of Portsmouth, UK
- Benjamin Brosgol, Aonix
- Jorgen Bundgaard, DDC-I
- Alan Burns, University of York
- Dirk Craeynest, OFFIS nv/sa, Belgium
- Alfons Crespo, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
- Peter Dencker, Chairman of Ada-Deutschland
- Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
- Michael Gonzalez Harbour, Universidad de Cantabria
- Mike Kamrad, BlazeNet
- Jan Van Katwijk, Delft University of Technology
- Hubert B. Keller, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
- Yvon Kermarrec, ENST de Bretagne
- Fabrice Kordon, Universite P. & M. Curie
- Albert Llamosi, Universitat de les Illes Balears
- Franco Mazzanti, Istituto di Elaborazione della Informazione , CNR
- John McCormick, University of Northern Iowa
- Paolo Panaroni, Intecs Sistemi S.p.A.
- Laurent Pautet, ENST Paris
- Juan A. de la Puente, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
- Erhard Plodereder, University of Stuttgart, Germany
- Jean-Pierre Rosen, ADALOG
- Sergey Rybin, Moscow State University & ACT
- Edmond Schonberg, New York University & ACT
- Andreas Schwald
- Martin J. Stift, Universitat Wien
- Alfred Strohmeier, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
- Theodor Tempelmeier, Rosenheim
- Stef Van Vlierberghe, OFFIS N.V./S.A.
- Tullio Vardanega, European Space Agency
- Andy Wellings, University of York
Conference Chair
Michael Gonzalez Harbour
Programme Co-Chairs
Michael Gonzalez Harbour
Dpto. de Electronica y Computadores
Universidad de Cantabria
Avda. de los Castros s/n
E-39005, Santander, Spain
mgh@ctr.unican.es
Juan A. de la Puente
Dpto. Ing de Sistemas Telematicos
ETSI Telecomunicacion
Ciudad Universitaria
E-28040 Madrid, Spain
jpuente@dit.upm.es
Tutorial Chair
Angel Alvarez
Dpto. Ing de Sistemas Telematicos
ETSI Telecomunicacion
Ciudad Universitaria
E-28040 Madrid, Spain
aalvarez@dit.upm.es
Exhibition Chair
Alejandro Alonso
Dpto. Ing de Sistemas Telematicos
ETSI Telecomunicacion
Ciudad Universitaria
E-28040 Madrid, Spain
aalonso@dit.upm.es
Publicity Chair
J. Javier Gutierrez Garcia
gutierjj@ctr.unican.es
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