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The 13th International Software/Quality Quality Week Technical Program is reviewed by a distinguished International Board of Advisors listed below.
Advisory Members are chosen for their expertise in software testing, software quality process, and software quality issues and generally for their contributions to the software quality field. Quality Week seeks a balance between industrial, government, vendor, and academic backgrounds. In view of the international aspect of the conference the Advisory Board includes members from many countries throughout the world.
All papers at QW2000 are reviewed by a majority of the Advisory Board's members. Paper selections are based on the QW2000 Advisory Board's technical content and presentation evaluation scores. Updated 20 March 2000.
Here are brief biographical descriptions of each QW2000 Advisory Board member. Email access information and a hotlink to each members personal home page is included where known.
Dr. Selim Aissi holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan and has extensive experience in the development of safety-critical embedded systems in the R&D, military and automative environments. Dr. Aissi worked at the University of Michigan, General Dynamics Land Systems, and General Motors Power Train. He is currently managing the Systems Quality Assurance Group at Applied Dynamics International.
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Larry Apfelbaum is the general manager of Teradyne's Software and Systems Test Division. Larry has authored papers for both IEEE and industry publications and conferences on software testing, automated program generation, artificial intelligence and diagnostics. He has been with Teradyne since 1973 and has been involved in the development and support of automatic test systems and automated test generation solutions. Prior to the TestMaster product group, he managed product teams developing a computer aided engineering tool suite focused on hardware design and test. Mr. Apfelbaum holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering (1973) and a Master's Degree in Computer Science (1973) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. (larry@sst.teradyne.com)
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James Bach (http://www.satisfice.com) is founder and principal consultant of Satisfice, Inc. James cut his teeth as a programmer, tester, and SQA manager in Silicon Valley and the world of market-driven software development. He has worked at Apple, Borland, a couple of startups, and a couple of consulting companies. Through his models of Good Enough quality, exploratory testing, and heuristic test design, he focuses on helping individual software testers cope with the pressures of life in the trenches and answer the questions "What am I doing here? What should I do now?"
(j.bach@computer.org)
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(Biography to be supplied.)
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Dr. Boris Beizer received a PhD in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966. He has written twelve books, ranging from system architecture to his well-known pair on software testing -- Software Testing Techniques and Software System Testing and Quality Assurance -- both considered standard references on the subject. His latest book is Black Box Testing, an introduction to testing technology. He directed testing for the FAA's Weather Message Switching Center and several other large communications systems. He has been a speaker at many testing conferences and is also known for his seminars on testing. He consults on software testing and quality assurance with many organizations throughout the world.
(bbeizer@acm.org.
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William Bently is a software developer and software testing researcher. As a practitioner, he has most recently worked for companies such as the Bayer Corporation and the Upjohn Company developing high reliability software for biomedical applications. As a researcher, he has written several papers on a novel theoretical approach to software testing: the theory of dynamic information flow testing (Cd testing). He is currently investigating the application of this theory to the testing of Java objects and components (JavaBeans). William has served on the Quality Week Board of Advisors since 1992. He has a B.A. in Mathematics from Oberlin College and an M.S. in Biology from Ball State University.
(wbently@fourway.net)
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Robert V. Binder has over 22 years of software development experience. He is President of RBSC Corporation, providing consulting and training in software engineering and software process improvement since 1984. He is author of "Application Debugging" (Prentice-Hall, 1985). "Testing Object-Oriented Systems" is under contract with Addison-Wesley. He writes a regular column on testing for Object magazine. His articles have appeared in American Programmer, Communications of the ACM, Computerworld, CASE Outlook, CASE Trends, Database Programming and Design, IEEE Computer, Journal of Knowledge Engineering, Journal of Software Testing, Verification, and Reliability, and Software Development. He is the of Chair a newly formed study group to develop an IEEE standard for built-in test for object-oriented software. Mr. Binder has an MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a BA and MBA from the University of Chicago. He is an IEEE Senior Member, a member of the ACM, and holds the CDP and CCP.
(rbinder@rbsc.com)
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Bob Birss, who recently joined Talarian, was previously with Price Waterhouse where he set up a testing activity. Before that he was Manager of Data Center Services for Intuit's San Deigo Data Center, responsible for processes, QA, and information services. Previously, he was Manager of Quality Engineering for the Open Financial Exchange on-line banking project at Intuit. He has held a variety of software quality positions since 1980 at such companies as Sun Microsystems, AT&T, and NCR. Bob has been a member of the Quality Week Advisory Board since 1993. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Iowa.
(bbirss@talarian.com)
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Jack Jack Bishop recently joined MS2 and is currently a Product Evangelist. Mr Bishop is responsible for understanding development engineering and assists with providing solutions to meet those needs. He has developed many systems as a software engineer and tester working on projects ranging from expert systems and embedded controls to application development. He holds a backelor of science degree in mathematics from Northwestern University and has been involved in the industry for over 10 years.
(jbishop@ms2.com)
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Mr. Nick Borelli is currently a Group Test Manager at Microsoft Corporation and is responsible for the World-Wide releases of the award-winning application, Microsoft Word. Nick has over 15 years experience in both Software Testing and Development and has worked in both small start-ups such as Pensoft, Go and EO, as well as working at Triad Systems, Apple and Software Publishing Corporation.
(nicbko@microsoft.com)
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Rita Bral is Executive Director of SR/Institute, the sponsor of the Quality Week conferences, and VP/Promotion at Software Research, SR/Institute's parent company, a role she has fulfilled since 1990. At SR she has been responsible for SR's promotion effort, for technical seminars, publicity, and trade-show activities, and has had major impact on TestWorks documentation and collateral technical material. Ms. Bral holds an Agrege in Pedagogy, University of Ghent and Licentiaat in Roman Philology, University of Ghent, Belgium.
(ritabral@sr-corp.com)
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Mr. Taz Daughtrey, ASQ/SQP, USA Taz Daughtrey is Founding Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly journal from the American Society for Quality (ASQ), . Software Quality Professional. An experienced designer and leader of software quality initiatives and process improvement projects, he is currently Director of Quality for Illuminis (http://www.illuminis.com), a multimedia medical image service provider in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
Taz, the former Division Chair and present Liaison Chair of the ASQ Software Division (http://www.asqquality.org/Divisions/softdiv/swqweb.html), has been an active participant in development of various technical standards. He has contributed chapters to the second and third editions of The ISO 9000 Handbook and to Quality Planning, Control, and Improvement in Research and Development.
Taz has published numerous technical papers; has given presentations at conferences in the U.S., Canada, Switzerland, Sweden, and Austria; and has conducted nearly one hundred classes on various software quality topics throughout the U.S., Canada, Japan, England, Russia, and Germany. His emphasis has been on experience-based treatments of verification and validation, metrics, and software process improvement and professional development.
Taz is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and a Senior Member of the ASQ. He earned the B.S. in Physics and the M.Ed. in Science Education degrees from the University of Virginia.. He has served as a consultant to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, . the Electric Power Research Institute, the Canadian government, and . the Japanese Space Agency.
(SQP_Editor@asqnet.org)
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Mr. Drake is a software and systems quality specialist and management and information technology consultant for Integrated Computer Concepts, Inc, (ICCI) in the United States. He currently leads and manages a U.S. government agency-level Software Engineering Knowledge Based Center's software quality engineering initiative. As part of an industry and government outreach/partnership program, he holds frequent seminars and tutorials covering code analysis, software metrics, OO analysis for C++ and Java, coding practice, testing, best current practices in software development, the business case for software engineering, software quality engineering, project management, organizational dynamics and change management, and the people side of information technology.
Mr. Drake has personally measured and analyzed over 125,000,000 lines of Java, C++, C, Ada, Fortran, Pascal, and Assembler code plus others. He supports the "weak-link" theory of software development and the use of software entropy principles as a risk identifier for generating higher quality software-based information technology systems.
He is the principal author of a chapter on "Metrics Used for Object-Oriented Software Quality" for a CRC Press Object Technology Handbook published in December of 1998. In addition, Mr. Drake is the author of a theme article entitled: "Measuring Software Quality: A Case Study" published in the November 1996 issue of IEEE Computer.
Mr. Drake is listed with the International Who's Who for Information Technology for 1999, is a member of IEEE and an affiliate member of the IEEE Computer Society. He is also a Certified Software Test Engineer (CSTE) from the Quality Assurance Institute (QAI). He considers himself a quality advocate and a software archaeologist. (tom.drake@integratedcc.com)
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Sam Guckenheimer is the senior director of marketing for Rational's Automated Testing products. In this role, he is responsible for the product direction and implementation of Rational's software testing products. He joined the engineering team at SQA Inc. in 1995 as director of technology integration and moved into his current position when SQA merged with Rational in early 1997.
Sam has held several marketing, engineering and general management positions in US and European software companies over the last fifteen years. At Rational, Guckenheimer has spearheaded the integration of the load testing products, the development of Web server testing technologies, the internationalization of SQA suite, and the introduction of OEM versions of these products. Prior to joining SQA, he spent six years with Softbridge Inc., ending his time there as managing director of Softbridge Capital Markets, a subsidiary based in London, England. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard University, he is a frequent speaker on software development and application topics at industry conferences and seminars, and has spoken as a guest lecturer at the management schools of MIT, Harvard and Yale.
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Dick Hamlet is Professor of Computer Science at Portland State University. He has worked as an operating-systems programmer and systems-programming manager for a commercial service bureau and for a university data-processing center. He was a member of the software engineering research group at the University of Maryland for 12 years, and a visiting lecturer at University of Melbourne in 1982. He has been actively involved in theoretical program-testing research and in building testing tools for more than 20 years. He is the author of two textbooks and about 50 refereed conference and journal publications. Currently he is investigating the theoretical foundations of testing.
(Click here for Prof. Hamlet's Home Page)
(hamlet@cs.pdx.edu)
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Dr. Jacobson has been performing research in the area of information security, network protocols, and real-time systems. Current funded projects include: An MLS security system for distributed tasks, network security bridge, network security, intrusion detection, and denial of service. He teaches in the areas of computer security, computer networking, real-time systems, and digital systems. Dr. Jacobson received the B.S. (1980), M.S. (1982), and Ph.D. (1985) from Iowa State University.
Selected Research
Jacobson, D. W. and Davis, J.A., National Science Foundation, "CISE Research Instrumentation." Funding to establish the Information System Security Laboratory. The laboratory is dedicated to research and teaching experiments in information system security.Jacobson, D. W. and Davis, J. A., Center for Advanced Technology, "Network Security." A device (called the protocol blocker) is under development to keep unwanted applications from running on the network. Banned application protocols are detected and terminated. Only one device will be required for each network segment.
Jacobson, D. W. and Davis, J. A., NSA, "A Multilevel Security Access Mechanism for Distributed Tasks." The purpose of the project is to develop a methodology and its subsequent software implementation to provide a secure distributed access control for user tasks in a heterogeneous network of computing resources.
(dougj@ee.iastate.edu)
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Dr. Andre Kok studied Computer Science at the Free University (VU) in Amsterdam. After completion of his study, he started working as a researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Group of the VU, and later at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). In this period he publicized a dozen papers and won several awards. In 1990, he got his Ph.D. at the UvA. After this, he worked as a system developer for several companies. He joined CMG in 1996 as a management consultant with a special focus on testing methods. He supported the introduction of TestFrame at a large bank, where his tasks included test management, test consultancy, sales, recruitment and project auditing. Currently, Andre coordinates product development at the TestFrame Research Centre of CMG.
(andre.kok@cmg.nl)
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Ara Kouchakdjian is a Business Area Manager with Q-Labs, located in College Park, Maryland. He has been working in software technology since 1985. His focus is the project introduction and usage of engineering-based software technologies. His time is divided between introducing the technologies to others and 'practicing what he preaches', actually using the technologies themselves. Much of his background is in the defense and telecommunications arena, where is has specified. designed and tested systems. Ara received the B.A. from Columbia College, Columbia University, and the M.S. from the University of Maryland.
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Dr. Edward Miller is President of Software Research, Inc., San Francisco, California, where he has been involved with software test tools development and software engineering quality questions. Dr. Miller has worked in the software quality management field for 25 years in a variety of capacities, and has been involved in the development of families of automated software and analysis support tools. He was chairman of the 1985 1st International Conference on Computer Workstations, and has participated in IEEE conference organizing activities for many years. He is the author of Software Testing and Validation Techniques, an IEEE Computer Society Press tutorial text. Dr. Miller received his Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering) degree from the University of Maryland, an M.S. (Applied Mathematics) degree from the University of Colorado, and a BSEE from Iowa State University.
(miller@sr-corp.com)
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John D. Musa is an independent consultant. He gives courses in software reliability engineering on a world wide basis. He has extensive experience as a software developer and manager. He has 21 years experience in software reliability engineering as one of the creators and leaders of the field, and was elected Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions. He has published over 80 papers and is principal author of the widely acclaimed pioneering book "Software Reliability: Measurement, Prediction, Application." He organized and led the transfer of software reliability engineering into practice within AT&T.
(John Musa's Home Page)
(j.musa@ieee.org)
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Leon Osterweil is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Previously he had been a Professor in, and Chair of, Computer Science Departments at both the University of California, Irvine, and University of Colorado, Boulder. He was the founding Director of the Southern California SPIN. He has been Program Committee Chair of the 16th International Conference on Software Engineering, the 2nd Symposium on Software Testing Analysis and Verification, the 4th International Conference on the Software Process, and the 2nd Symposium on Practical Software Development Environments. He has also presented keynote talks at such meetings as CASE 92 in Montreal, and the Ninth International Conference on Software Engineering where he introduced the concept of Process Programming. He has consulted for such companies as IBM, Bell Laboratories, SAIC, MCC, and TRW, and is a member of SEI's Process Program Advisory Board.
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Gregory M. Pope is the founder and President of Azor, Inc., a company specializing in the development of automated software quality products and outsource testing services since 1993. Mr. Pope has experience and expertise in both commercial and military software development, he has over 30 years of direct involvement in software development, software testing, and management of small and large organizations. Prior to founding Azor, Mr. Pope worked for Tiburon Systems (now Texas Instruments), IT&T, General Instruments, and Kaman Aerospace where he was responsible for developing and/or testing software used for Cruise Missiles, Telecommunications, Aircraft Instrumentation, and Radar Warning Receiver applications. Mr. Pope has been responsible for the development of patented pioneering techniques in computer aided testing, including the Ferret® automated system test tool. Mr. Pope has conducted over 200 international seminars in the past seven years on software testing, quality, and management. He has personally spoken to over 5,000 members of the Test and QA community worldwide about the needs of the industry. He is a frequent speaker at International Symposiums. He is a member of the IEEE and selected to the Software Program Managers Network, a congressionally sponsored program to oversee government software developments. His articles have been featured in Computer Design, Industry Week, Computer World, Signal, Electronic Defense News, and Software Maintenance News. His first book on Software Testing is due out early 2001. Mr. Pope has an MBA from the University of Phoenix, and a BS degree from Connecticut State University. He lives in Mountain View California.
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Otto Vinter is a management consultant at the Danish consultancy company DELTA specializing in software process improvement. Until recently, he was managing a software technology and process improvement group at Br¨el & Kjaer responsible for projects to improve the software development process.
He has been active in defining software engineering standards, procedures, and methods to be employed at Br¨el & Kjaer. He has been the driving force in the company's improvement activities in testing, requirements engineering, development models, and introduction of object-oriented development methods.
He has managed software development projects for 30 years; with Br¨el & Kjaer from 1986, before that with the Danish branch of Control Data Corporation, and with Regnecentralen.
He received his Masters Degree in Computer Science from the Danish Technical University in 1968. He is an associate teacher for BSc. and MSc. level education in Computer Science, is an active participant in Danish software-knowledge exchange groups, is a regular speaker at several international conferences, and is an external evaluator of the R&D programmes of the CEC.
(Dr. Otto Vinter's Home Page)
(otv@delta.dk)
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Mr. Mark Wiley has spent twenty five years in the field of software development and testing. He has spent over 10 years designing and implementing tools and techniques for testing system software on multiple CPU machines. He is currently a Senior Software Test Engineer in Mirapoint's testing group.
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Dr. Denise Woit is presently an Associate Professor in Computer Science at Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto, Canada. Her consulting and research areas include software testing techniques, software reliability and software engineering. She has authored a number of papers in these areas. Her work focuses on providing automated support for building reliable software systems.
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