QW2002 Paper 7Q

Douglas Hoffman
(Software Quality Methods, LLC.)

Overview of ASQ's 2002 CSQE Body of Knowledge

Key Points

Presentation Abstract

The CSQE BOK was updated for 2002. The presentation describes the BOK and identifies and relates job performance measures relating to the BOK.

About the Author

Douglas Hoffman is an independent consultant with Software Quality Methods, LLC. He has been in the software engineering and quality assurance fields for nearly 30 years and now is a management consultant in strategic and tactical planning for software quality. He has just completed the writing and editing of several sections in the updated QCI CSQE Primer, the primary study guide covering all of the topics in the CSQE BOK. He also prepared and teaches CSQE examination preparation courses in Silicon Valley. His consulting experience includes management consulting, teaching, managing, and engineering across the computer systems and software industries. His recent experience has focused on creating and transforming software quality assurance and development groups, and architecting software test automation environments.

Douglas is a founder and past Chairman of the Santa Clara Valley Software Quality Association (SSQA) and the Silicon Valley Section of the American Society for Quality (ASQ). He has been a presenter and participant at dozens of software quality conferences and has been Program Chairman for several international conferences on software quality. He is a member of the ACM and IEEE and is active in the ASQ as a Senior Member, participating in the Software Division, the Santa Clara Valley Section, and the Software Quality Task Group. He has earned a BA in Computer Science, an MS in Electrical Engineering, an MBA, a Certificate from ASQ in Software Quality Engineering, and has been a registered ISO 9000 Lead Auditor.