San Francisco, California, USA   |   29 May - 1 June 2001

T	Tuesday 29 May 2001 PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIALS
8:30 - 12:00	Tutorial A1 Mr. Tom Gilb (Result Planning Limited) Software Inspection For The Internet Age: How To Increase Effect And Radically Reduce the Cost (Part I)	Tutorial B1 Mr. Erik Simmons (Intel Corporation) Writing Good Requirements	Tutorial C1 Dr. Norman F. Schneidewind (Naval Postgraduate School) A Roadmap To Distributed Client-Server Software Reliability Engineering	Tutorial D1 Dr. Gualtiero Bazzana (ONION, S.P.A) Web Testing Techniques and Tools (Part I)	Tutorial E1 Mr. Robert A. Sabourin (AmiBug.Com) Getting Started -- Stressing Web Applications: Stress Early -- Stress Often	Tutorial F1 Mr. Ross Collard (Collard and Co.) Test Estimating	Tutorial G1 Mr. Thomas Drake (Integrated Computer Concepts, Inc ICCI) The Quality Challenge For Network Based Software Systems
12:00 - 1:30	TUTORIAL DAY LUNCH AND NETWORKING
1:30 - 5:00	Tutorial A2 Mr. Tom Gilb (Result Planning Limited) Software Inspection For The Internet Age: How To Increase Effect And Radically Reduce the Cost (Part II)	Tutorial B2 Mr. Bill Deibler (Software Systems Quality Consulting) Making the CMM Work: Streamlining the CMM for Todays Projects and Organizations	Tutorial C2 Dr. John D. Musa (Consultant) More Reliable Software Faster And Cheaper	Tutorial D2 Dr. Gualtiero Bazzana (ONION, S.P.A) Web Testing Techniques and Tools (Part II)	Tutorial E2 Dr. Edward Miller (eValid) Client-Side WebSite Testing	Tutorial F2 Dr. Cem Kaner (Florida Institute of Technology) Teaching Testing: A Skills-Based Approach	Tutorial G2 Mr. Ed Kit (SDT Corporation) Establishing a Fully Integrated Test Automation Architecture
5:00 - 6:00	Welcome Networking Reception

Wednesday 30 May 2001 CONFERENCE DAY #1
QW2001 Exhibition: 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
1 8:30 - 10:00	PLENARY SESSION
	Plenary Session Introduction: Edward Miller (Software Research, Inc.)
	Keynote 1P1: Mr. Ed Kit (SDT Corporation) Test Automation -- State of the Practice
	Keynote 1P2: Mr. Hans Buwalda (CMG) The Three "Holy Grails" of Test Development (...adventures of a mortal tester..)
10:00 - 10:30	REFRESHMENTS IN EXHIBIT HALL
2 10:30 - 12:00	Vendor Technical Track	Technology Track Test Automation	Applications Track Using Models	Internet Track Web-Oriented Process	Management Track Requirements	QuickStart Track
	Session 2V1 Mr. Steve Nemzer (VeriTest) Testing In Multi-CPU Environment	Paper 2T1 Mr. Tobias Mayer, Mr. Thomas Stocking (eValid, Inc., siteROCK) The Web Site Testing Challenge	Paper 2A1 Mr. James Tierney (Microsoft) Getting Started With Model-Based Testing	Paper 2W1 Mr. Adrian Cowderoy (Professional- Spirit Ltd) Quality in a Dotcom Startup -- Fact or Fiction?	Paper 2M1 Mr. Scott Jefferies (Technology Builders, Inc.) A Requirements- Based Approach To Delivering E-Business And Enterprise Applications	Session 2Q Mr. Kent Beck (Author) Extreme Programming Explained
	Session 2V2 Mr. Francois Charette (TestQuest) Testing Configurable Product Platforms	Paper 2T2 Ms. Nancy Eickelmann & Mr. Allan Willey (Motorola Labs) An Integrated System Test Environment	Paper 2A2 Mr. Klaus Olsen (Software- test.dk) Using The W Model To Institutionalize Inspections, And Improve Knowledge Transfers	Paper 2W2 Mr. Todd Hsueh (IBM) Innovative Web Test Process & Control Tool	Paper 2M2 Mr. Robert Benjamin, Ms. Ruth Pennoyer & Ms. Karen Law (Spherion Corporation) Pre-Defining Success: Incorporating e-Metrics Into Business And Technical Requirements For Web And e-Business Solutions
12:00 - 1:30	CONFERENCE LUNCH AND NETWORKING IN EXHIBIT HALL
3 1:30 - 3:00	Vendor Technical Track	Technology Track Process Models	Applications Track Outsourcing	Internet Track Performance & Load	Management Track New Methods	QuickStart Track
	Session 3V1 Mr. Christian Hote (PolySpace Technologies) Bug Detection Tools for Productivity	Paper 3T1 Mrs. Manjula Madan (Philips Software Centre, Bangalore) Defect Reduction Using Orthogonal Defect Classification Methodology	Paper 3A1 Mr. Ralph Dalebout (IBM Printing Systems Division) Beta Testing With Rapid Development	Paper 3W1 Ms. Nancy Landau (Alltel Technology Services) Performance Testing Applications In Internet Time	Paper 3M1 Mr. Timothy Kelliher, Dr. Daniel Blezek, Mr. William Lorensen & Mr. James Miller (GE Research & Development) Six-Sigma Meets Extreme Programming: Changing the Way We Work	Session 3Q Mr. Tom Gilb (Result Planning Limited) Planguage: A Defined Language for Clearer Requirements and Design
	Session 3V2 Ms. Peggy Fouts (Compuware) Test Planning For Xtreme Times	Paper 3T2 Dr. Mark R. Blackburn, Mr. Robert Busser, Mr. Aaron Nauman & Dr. Ramaswamy Chandramouli (Software Productivity Consortium) Model-based Approach To Security Test Automation	Paper 3A2 Mr. Roger M. Records (Boeing Commercial Airplane Group) Assuring Quality In Outsourced Software	Paper 3W2 Mr. Steve Splaine (Splaine & Associates) Modeling The Real World For Load Testing Web Sites	Paper 3M2 Ms. Elli Georgiadou (Middlesex University) & Naomi Barber (University of North London) Investigating The Applicability Of The Taguchi Method To Software Development
3:00 - 3:30	REFRESHMENTS IN EXHIBIT HALL
4 3:30 - 5:00	Vendor Technical Track	Technology Track Metrics	Applications Track Reliability	Internet Track Test Practices	Management Track Life Cycle Issues	QuickStart Track
	Session 4V1 Mr. John Keller (TeamShare, Inc.) Collaborative Product Design and the New Role of Testing	Paper 4T1 Prof. Warren Harrison (Portland State University) A Universal Metrics Repository	Paper 4A1 Mr. Henk Keesom & Dr. John Musa (Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics) Using Test Data To Calculate Software Reliability Growth	Paper 4W1 Mr. Nikhil Nilakantan & Mr. Ibrahim K. El-Far (Florida Tech) Why Is API Testing Different	Paper 4M1 Mr. David Fern (Micros Systems Inc.) How Testers Can And Should Drive Development Cycles	Session 4Q Mr. Greg Clower (SDT Corporation) Establishing a Telecommunication Test Automation System
	Session 4V2 Mr. Michael Smith (McCabe&Assoc)	Paper 4T2 Mr. Suresh Nageswaran (Cognizant Technology Solutions CTS) Test Effort Estimation Using Use Case Points (UCP)	Paper 4A2 Mr. Erik Simmons (Intel Corporation) Product Triage: A "Medical" Approach To Predicting And Monitoring Product	Paper 4W2 Mr. Hal Miller (RadView Software) Best Practices in Web Performance Testing	Paper 4M2 Dr. Cem Kaner (Florida Institute of Technology) Managing The Proportion Of Testers To Developers
5:00 - 6:00	Mr. Brian Lawrence, Panel 4P Chair Special Panel Session: How DO You Test Internet Software?
5:00 - 6:30	EXPO RECEPTION Drinks and hors d'oeuvres are served in the Expo Hall.
7:15	QW2001 Special Event! Arizona Diamondbacks VS. San Francisco Giants at PacBell Park

Thursday 31 May 2001 CONFERENCE DAY #2
QW2001 Exhibition: 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
5 8:30 - 10:00	PLENARY SESSION
	Plenary Session Introduction: Edward Miller (Software Research, Inc.)
	Keynote 5P1: Dr. Linda Rosenberg (GSFC NASA) Independent Verification And Validation Implementation At NASA
	Keynote 5P2: Ms. Lisa Crispin (Tensegrent) The Need For Speed: Acceptance Test Automation in an eXtreme Programming Environment (QW2000 Best Presentation)
10:00 - 10:30	REFRESHMENTS IN EXHIBIT HALL
6 10:30 - 12:00	Vendor Technical Track	Technology Track Advanced Automation	Applications Track Field Reports	Internet Track Complexity Estimation	Management Track Release Criteria	QuickStart Track
	Session 6V1 Ms. Lauri MacKinnon (Vanteon) Three Customer Case Studies of Performance Testing using Segue SilkPerformer	Paper 6T1 Dr. Rainer Stetter (ITQ Gmbh & Software Factory Gmbh) Test Strategies for Embedded Systems	Paper 6A1 Mr. Steve Whitchurch (Mentor Graphics Corp.) Trials and Tribulations Of Testing a Java/C++ Hybrid Application	Paper 6W1 Mr. Mark Johnson (Cadence Design Systems) How Are You Going To Test All Those Configurations?	Paper 6M1 Mr. Geert Pinxten (I2B) The Extended Product Quality Model	Session 6Q Ms. Jeanette Folkes (Modem Media) WebTesting 101
	Session 6V2 Mr. Larry Markesian (Reasoning) Improving Software Quality & Delivery Schedules Through Automated Inspection	Paper 6T2 Mr. Keith B. Stobie (BEA Systems, Inc.) Automating Test Oracles and Decomposability	Paper 6A2 Mr. Juris Borzovs & Mr. Martins Gills (Riga Information Technology Inst.) Software Testing in Latvia: Lessons Learned	Paper 6W2 Mr. Rakesh Agarwal, Mr. Santanu Banerjee & Mr. Bhaskar Gosh (Infosys Technologies Ltd) Estimating Internet Based Projects: A Case Study	Paper 6M2 Ms. Johanna Rothman (The Rothman Consulting Group) Using Requirements To Create Release Criteria
12:00 - 1:30	CONFERENCE LUNCH AND NETWORKING IN EXHIBIT HALL
7 1:30 - 3:00	Vendor Technical Track	Technology Track Functional Testing	Applications Track Protocol Issues	Internet Track Web Lifecycles	Management Track Review Techniques	QuickStart Track
	Session 7V1 Mr. Rick Banister (Sesame Technology) Clothing Optional Relationships With Your Customers--How much should we expose to our customers when it comes to the product improvement process?	Paper 7T1 Mr. Don Cohen (Princeton Softech) Requirements For A Comprehensive Testing Environment	Paper 7A1 Dr. Holger Schlingloff & Dr. Jan Bredereke (Technologie- Zentrum Informatik) Specification Based Testing Of the UMTS Protocol Stack	Paper 7W1 Mr. Bhushan Gupta & Mr. Steve Rhodes (Hewlett-Packard Co.) Adopting A Lifecycle For Developing Web Based Applications	Paper 7M1 Mr. Michael Ensminger (PAR3 Communications) Walk & Stagger Through Review Process	Session 7Q Mr. James Bach (Satisfice Inc) High Accountability Exploratory Testing
	Session 7V2 Dr. Edward Miller (eValid, Inc.) Universal Client-site Web Test Engine	Paper 7T2 Mr. James Lyndsay (Workroom Productions) The Importance of Data In Functional Testing	Paper 7A2 Mr. Michael K. Jones (Dromedary Peak Consulting/Western International University) High Availability Testing	Paper 7W2 Mr. Eric Patel (Nokia Home Communications) Rapid SQA: Web Testing At The Speed Of The Internet	Paper 7M2 Prof. Warren Harrison, Dr. David Raffo & Dr. John Settle (Portland State University) Process Improvement As A Capital Investment
3:00 - 3:30	REFRESHMENTS IN EXHIBIT HALL
8 3:30 - 5:00	Vendor Technical Track	Technology Track Novel Approaches	Applications Track Low-Level Testing	Internet Track Bug-Based Methods	Management Track Risk-Based Methods	QuickStart Track
	Session 8V1 Mr. Steve Smith (QualityLogic) Develop Great Stuff, Repeatedly, On Time	Paper 8T1 Mr. J. D. Brisk (Exodus Communications) Peer-to-Peer Computing: The Future Of Internet Performance Testing	Paper 8A1 Mr. Vince Budrovich (ParaSoft Corporation) Increasing The Effectiveness Of Load Testing: Unit-Level Load Testing	Paper 8W1 Dr. James Helm (Univ. of Houston Clear Lake) Web-Based Application Quality Assurance Testing	Paper 8M1 Ms. Sandy Sweeney (Compuware Corporation) Risky Business -- Adding Risk Assessment To The Test Planning Process	Session 8Q Mr. Robert A. Sabourin (AmiBug.Com) The Effective SQA Manager: Getting Things Done
	Session 8V2 Mr. Shel Siegel (Tescom) Component Based Architecture for Automated Testing	Paper 8T2 Mr. Erik Simmons (Intel Corporation) Quantifying Quality Requirements using Planguage	Paper 8A2 Mr. Scott Trappe (Reasoning, Inc.) Building Better Software Code: Finding Bugs You Never Knew You Had	Paper 8W2 Mr. Kim Davis & Mr. Robert Sabourin (My Virtual Model Inc.) Exploring, Discovering and Exterminating Bug Clusters In Web Applications	Paper 8M2 Mr. Kamesh Pemmaraju (Cigital, Inc.) Software Risk Management
5:00 - 6:00	Nick Borelli, Panel 8P Chair Special Panel Session: ASK THE QUALITY EXPERTS! Stump the Quality Experts If You Can! Post Your Questions LIVE on the Web! QW2001 Advisory Board Members Will Answer All Questions! (In Cooperation With Microsoft Corporation)

Friday 1 June 2001 POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
W 2:00 - 5:00	Technology Workshop W1 Dr. Cem Kaner (Florida Institute of Technology) Developing The Right Test Documentation	Applications Workshop W2 Mr. John Paul (Minjoh Technology Solutions) Automating Software Testing: A Life-Cycle	Internet Workshop W3 Mr. Robert A. Sabourin (AmiBug.Com) Bug Priority And Severity	Management Workshop W4 Ms. Johanna Rothman, Elizabeth Hendrickson (The Rothman Consulting Group) Grace Under Pressure: Handling Sticky Situations in Testing

SB	Standby Presentations
	Technology Track	Applications Track	Internet Track	Management Track
	Mr. Michael K. Jones, Assistant Professor (Dromedary Peak Consulting/Western International University) Test Strategy Derivation	Dr. John D. Musa (Consultant) More Reliable Software Faster And Cheaper -- An Overview	Dr. Kobad Bugwadia, Kris Mohan (Intel Corporation) Quality Issues, Requirements & Challenges For Multimedia Streaming On The Internet	Ms. Joanna Rothman (The Rothman Consulting Group) Successful Test Management: 10 Lessons Learned

Vendor Demonstration Sessions
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