Ms. Ana Andres, European Software Institute
Paper Title: ISO-9000 Certification as a Business Driver: The SPICE (4M2)
Ana Andres works at ESI in the area of Software Process Improvement. Her
expertise comprises software improvement models, particularly SPICE, and
software quality standards.
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Mr. Larry Apfelbaum, Teradyne Software & Systems Test
Paper Title: Model Based Testing (8A2)
Larry Apfelbaum is the general manager of Teradyne's Software and Systems
Test Division. He has been involved in software development for automated
testing systems since 1973.
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Mr. Tom Arnold, Consultant
Special Panel Session: Improving the Maintainability of Automated Test Suites(4P)
Tom Arnold graduated from Purdue University in 1990 with a Bachelor of Science degree
in computer science. He began consulting for Microsoft in 1993 on test automation using
Microsoft Test 2.0, 3.0 and Visual Test 4.0. As part of helping to co-found Software
Testing Laboratories, Inc. (recently renamed to ST Labs, Inc.), Tom created a 3-day
class on how to automate aspects of software testing which he then taught to employees
from such companies as Microsoft, Compaq, IBM, Corel, Peachtree, MCI, Spry/CompuServe,
Delrina, Aldus/Adobe, Hewlett-Packard, and others.
His book on test automation, Software Testing with Visual Test 4.0,
was published by IDG Books Worldwide in August 1996.
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Mr. James Bach, Chief Scientist, STL
QuickTrack Tutorial Title: How to be an Expert Tester (4Q)
James Bach, Chief Scientist at ST Labs, is a veteran Silicon Valley test
manager and software process naturalist.
He has appeared at Quality Week before, in 1994, 1995 and 1996.
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Dr. Boris Beizer, Independent Consultant
Tutorial Title: An Overview of Testing (TA)
Keynote Title: Y2K Testing (10P2)
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.
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Mr. Lawrence Bernstein, President, National Software Council
Keynote Title: Software Dynamics: Planning for the Next Century (5P1)
A dynamic speaker and a well known lecturer, Larry Bernstein is
serving as the President of the National Software Council,
an organization dedicated to furthering USA software technology
goals in an expanding world market.
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Prof. Antonia Bertolino & Martina Marre, Senior Researcher, IEI-CNR
Paper Title: A General Path Generation Algorithm for Coverage Testing (2T1)
Antonia Bertolino graduated cum laude in Electronic Engineering at the
University of Pisa in 1985. Since 1986 she has been a researcher with
the "Istituto di Elaborazione della Informazione" of the Italian
National Research Council (CNR), in Pisa. Her research interests are
in software engineering and dependability. Currently she is working at
approaches for estimating and reducing the cost of debug testing
techniques and at methods for the evaluation of software
reliability. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Systems and Software.
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Mr. John Beskin, Senior Consultant, Reliable Software Technologies
Panelist: Panel Session: How does Java Address Software Quality? (8P)
Jonathan Beskin's has served Reliable Software Technologies Corporation
as a developer of both compiler-based and web-based software
technologies. Currently, he spends a majority of his time consulting,
and training large software development organizations in software
testing. His work in software testing includes serving as technical
lead on numerous software testing initiatives, centered on web-based
systems. Since 1996, Mr. Beskin has collaborated with RST's
researchers, Dr. Anup Ghosh, Dr. Gary McGraw, and OO expert, Roger
Alexander, to develop techniques for exploring methods to seamlessly
integrate testing into Object Oriented systems with a focus on Java
specifically. In addition, Mr. Beskin has led the creation
of a suite of automated test scripts using client/server technology to
simulate real-time user interactions with Web Servers and Relational
Databases serving both HTML pages and object-oriented (OO) JavaScript.
Mr. Beskin has an MA in Philosophy and Computers and Systems Science
from the State University of New York at Binghamton.
(jbeskin@rstcorp.com)
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Mr. Robert V. Binder, RBSC Corporation
Paper Title: Test Automation for Object oriented Systems (TB)
Chair: Panel Session: How does Java Address Software Quality? (8P)
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 Chair of 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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Mr. Nick Borelli, Microsoft
Paper Title: Tuning your Test Group: Some Tips & Tricks (9M1)
Nick Borelli is currently the Group Test Manager for the Planning Business
Unit at Microsoft Corporation and is responsible for both Microsoft Project
and Microsoft Team Manager products. Nick has over 10 years experience in
Software Testing and Development and has worked in small start ups such as
Pensoft, GO and EO, as well as working at Triad Systems, Apple and Software Publishing Corporation.
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Mr. Victor Braberman & Ms. Martina Marre & Mr. Miguel Felder, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Paper Title: Testing Timing Behaviors of Real Time Software (4T1)
Martina Marre' is currently a doctoral candidate in computer science at University
of Buenos Aires. Her research interest include program testing and verification.
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Ms. Marilyn Bush, Independent Consultant
Paper Title: What is an SEPG's Role in the CMM? (7M2)
Marilyn Bush, an independent consultant, is one of the authors of the revised
SEI Capability Maturity Model as well as an author of the SEI's CMM
Introductory Course and a qualified SEI Lead Assessor. She was recently a
member of the SEI team asked to revamp the SEI Assessment Method and Lead
Assessor Course, and she is a certified instructor for the SEI CMM
Introductory Course and one of three people worldwide now certified to teach
the SEI Lead Assessor Course.
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Mr. Shankar L. Chakrabarti & Mr. Harry Robinson, Hewlett-Packard Company
Paper Title: Catching Bugs in the Web: Using the World Wide Web to Detect Software Localization Defects (7A2)
Shankar L. Chakrabarti
is a Member of the Technical Staff at the Workstation
Technology Center, Hewlett-Packard Company. He obtained his Ph.D. in
Chemistry and subsequently obtained a M.S. in Computer Science from Oregon
State University in 1985. His main interests are in the area of software
testing, specification and programming tools.
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Harry Robinson is a software design engineer with HP in Corvallis, Oregon.
He received a BA degree from Dartmouth College and a BS and MS degree in
Electrical Engineering from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.
Prior to joining HP he spent ten years developing and testing software for AT&T Bell
Laboratories.
In 1995, he received the AT&T Network Systems Quality Award for "Accomplishment
of Outstanding Value in the Area of Quality".
Lucent Technologies (the successor to AT&T Bell Laboratories) is pursuing patents
based on his work in software test automation.
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Mr. Ram Chillarege, Senior Manager, IBM
Paper Title: Orthogonal Defect Classification (4A2)
Ram Chillarege heads The Center for Software Engineering at IBM Research -
which today reaches 3000 programmers in the IBM company. To date it has
produced eighteen technologies and tools that are distributed within a
deployment network that can start pilots within three months of proof of
concept, in at least one of our labs, in some part of the world. The Center
has also been the mother of tools and technologies, sometimes outside the
immediate mission area, such as project management driven workflow and
datamining. Some have gone on to build new projects. In more recent years,
we have played a central role in the re-engineering of IBM Software
Development, providing vision, architecture and technology
which is executed and rolled out.
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Prof. Lori A. Clarke, University of Massachusetts
Keynote Title: Gaining Confidence in Distributed Systems (10P1)
Lori A. Clarke received a BA degree in mathematics from the University of
Rochester and a PhD degree in computer science from the University of
Colorado. She joined the computer science faculty at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1975, where she has continued to pursue research on
a broad range of issues affecting software engineering, including software
validation, object management, and distributed object technology. Dr. Clarke
is a former IEEE Distinguished Visitor, ACM national lecturer, member of the
National Science Foundation CCR advisory board, 1990 recipient of a University
of Massachusetts Chancellor's medal, 1993 recipient of a university faculty
fellowship, and associate editor of ACM Transactions on Programming Languages
and Systems. She has served on numerous program committees and was program
co-chair of the 14th International Conference on Software Engineering.
Currently, she is chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Software
Engineering (SIGSOFT) and an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Software
Engineering.
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Mr. Larry W. Cooke & Mr. George van der Veen, Testmasters
Vendor Presentation Title: A Case Study - Integration of Automated Test Tools with Structured Testing Methodology (VT4)
Joint speaker presentation featuring Larry W. Cooke, founder and President, and George Van der Veen,
Senior Test Consultant, of TESTMASTERS, Inc.
For over 15 years, Larry has specialized in testing application software
as an independent consultant and has developed a suite of automated tools
to support functional test management.
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Ms. Jennifer Davis & Dr. Daniel Ziskin & Dr. Bryan Zhou, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Paper Title: The Challenge of Testing Innovative Science Software on a Rapidly Evolving Production Platform (2A1)
Jennifer Davis performs software engineering for NASA. She is a vocal
proponent of documenting and implementing software development and test
processes.
jdavis@eosdata.gsfcs.nasa.gov)
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Mr. Michael Deck, Consultant, Cleanroom Software Engineering, Inc.
Paper Title: Cleanroom Development: Formal Methods, Judiciously Applied (TJ)
Michael Deck is an internationally-recognized expert in Cleanroom software
engineering practices. His consulting company, Cleanroom Software
Engineering, Inc., specializes in training project teams to tailor and use
Cleanroom practices to solve real-life software process problems. From 1982
to 1993 he was a member of the IBM Cleanroom Software Technology Center, where
he worked closely with the inventors of the Cleanroom approach. He has a BA
in Mathematics from Kalamazoo College and an MS in Computer Science from the
University of Maryland, College Park. His current research interests include
application of Cleanroom to object-oriented development, real-time and
embedded software, and highly reliable systems. He has published widely on
various Cleanroom topics.
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Mr. William J. Deibler & Mr. Bob Bamford, Software Systems Quality Consulting
Paper Title: Software Engineering Models for Quality: Comparing the SEI Capability Maturity (CMM) to ISO 9001 (TH)
Bill Diebler has an M.Sc. in Computer Science and 18 years of experience in
the computer industry, primarily in the areas of software and systems quality
assurance, validation, and development. Since 1986, Bill has held Engineering
Management positions at National Semiconductor Corporation (Systems Division)
and International Computers Limited (ICL). As Systems Quality Manager, he
architected and implemented a quality system for ICL's Santa Clara Hardware
and Software Development Center. The quality system was registered to ISO
9001 in 1990, one of the earliest registrations in the US. Until he left ICL
in 1993 to become a full-time partner in SSQC, Bill was responsible for
maintaining ICL's registration through three years of surveillance
assessments.
(SSQC Web Page)
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Prof. Dorothy Denning, Georgetown University
Keynote Title: Cyberspace Attacks and Countermeasures (1P2)
Dr. Dorothy E. Denning is Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown
University, where she is working in the areas of information warfare and cryptography.
(Click here for Prof. Denning's Home Page)
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Mr. Huey Der-Chu & Mr. John E. Dobson, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Paper Title: An Integrated Test Environment for Distributed Applications (8T1)
Huey-Der Chu is currently a PhD student in computing science at the
University of Newcastle upon Tyne funded by the National Science Council in
Taiwan. He is also an Instructor in the Information Management Department at
the National Defense Management College in Taiwan, where he has participated
in a research project for evaluating software quality using the statistical
approach. His research interests include methodical and statistical
techniques for automating testing.
Hugh McGuire, Laura K. Dillon, Y. S. Ramakrishna, University of California, Santa Barbara
Paper Title: Generating Trace Checkers for Test Oracles (3T2)
Laura K. Dillon earned the Ph.D. degree in Computer
Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1984). She
is currently a Professor in Computer Science at the
University of California, Santa Barbara.
Dr. Dillon's research interests
include formal methods for modeling and analysis of real-time software
systems, formal specification and verification of real-time software
systems, and programming languages. Her work focuses on providing
automated support for building reliable software. Dr. Dillon received the
Best Paper Award for her work on verification of Ada tasking program at
the Third International Conference on Ada Applications and Environments
(May 1988). She has served on numerous national and international
program committees and advisory panels, chaired the 1996 ACM
International Symposium of Software Testing and Analysis, and is
currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
(dillon@cs.ucsb.edu)
(Click here for Prof. Dillon's Home Page)
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Mr. Tom Drake, NSA Software Engineering Center
QuickStart Tutorial Title: Managing Software Quality -- How to Avoid Disaster and Achieve Success (2Q)
Thomas Drake is a management and technology consultant with Booz Allen &
Hamilton, Inc. He is currently on assignment with the National Security
Agency working as a senior technologist in their Software Engineering
Applied Technology Center. He manages this Center's Software Quality
Engineering initiatives. As part of an industry and government outreach/
partnership program, he holds frequent seminars and tutorials covering
code analysis, coding practice, testing, software project management, and
best current practices in software development.
(drake@bah.com)
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Mr. Dave Duchesneau, Computer Scientist, The Boeing Company
Paper Title: Guerrilla SQA (9M2)
Dave Duchesneau is a computer scientist and senior quality analyst for Boeing.
He has been programming since 1973 and specializes in OO technology and practices.
An engaging speaker, Dave has presented at several international conferences and
published dozens of technical articles.
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Mr. Danny R. Faught, Technical Lead, Hewlett-Packard
Paper Title: Experiences with OS Reliability Testing on the Exemplar System (3A2)
Danny Faught serves as Technical Lead of the System Software Test Group
at the Hewlett-Packard Convex Division where he is responsible for the
test architecture for parallel supercomputer operating systems. He is
the creator and maintainer of the comp.software.testing FAQ, co-founder
of the swtest-discuss mailing list, and founder of a corporate-wide
software testers' mailing list at HP. He also has an interest in
writing and has been published in magazines such as Software QA
Magazine and Compute! Magazine. Mr. Faught is a member of the American
Society for Quality Control. He graduated cum laude from the University
Honors Program at the University of North Texas with a bachelor's
degree in Computer Science in 1992.
(faught@convex.hp.com)
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Mr. Istvan Forgacs & Eva Takacs, Computer and Automation Institute
Paper Title: Mutation-based regression testing (2T2)
Istvan Forgacs received the M. S. degree in electrical
engineering in the Budapest Technical University in 1980. His research
interests include program testing and maintenance, debugging and flow
analysis. He has published about 20 technical articles. Now he is
a senior research associate of the Information Research Group,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He received the Ph.D. degree in
computer science in 1993.
(forgacs@sztaki.hu)
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Mr. Andrew A. Gerb, Group Leader, Space Telescope Science Institute
Paper Title: Delivering Quality Software in Twenty-Four Hours (6M1)
Andrew Gerb is the leader of the Presto Software Support Team at the
Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.
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Mr. Tom Gilb, Independent Consultant
Paper Title: Optimizing Software Inspections (TE)
QuickStart Tutorial Title: Making Contracts Testable (3Q)
Tom Gilb
known worldwide as a lecturer and software technology author,
devoted 80 pages of the earliest book describing inspection,
Software Metrics (1976),
to a description of software inspection methods.
He has actively taught and installed and followed up the method
internationally since 1975.
He has consulted to key pioneers of
Inspection at IBM development labs.
He is the author of Principles of Software Engineering Management, and Software Inspections.
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Prof. Dick Hamlet, Portland State University
Keynote Title: Keeping The "Engineering" In Software Engineering (5P2)
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)
(dick.hamlet@ucg.IE)
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Mr. John Hedstrom & Mr. Dennis J. Frailey, Software Systems Engineer, Texas Instruments
Paper Title: Mastering the Hidden Cost of Software Rework (2M2)
Currently a software systems engineer at Texas Instruments, during his 13 year
career at TI, he has worked in the area of six sigma software process
development and the development of Ada compilers for signal processors. He is
responsible for the design and implementation of a Software Six Sigma plan and
the implementation of Software Sigma in SG. He developed a SW Sigma
predictive model for DSEG implementing a Poisson statistical model for
escaping DPU. As a TI Blackbelt with additional training in facilitative
leadership, he has played a key role in the creation and deployment of the
software six sigma methodology for SG.
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Mr. Brian G. Hermann & Mr. Amritt Goel, U.S. Air Force
Paper Title: Software Maturity Evaluation: Can We Predict When Software Will be Ready for Fielding? (6M2)
Brian Hermann is a Captain in the US Air Force serving as a software test manager
at the AFOTEC center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is responsible
for testing several USAF software systems for maintainability, supportability
and reliability.
Capt. Hermann earned the MS in Software Systems Management from the USAF
Institute of Technology and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Notre Dame.
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Mr. Douglas Hoffman, Independent Consultant
Panelist: Improving Maintainability of Automated Test Suites (4P)
Douglas Hoffman is an independent consultant with Software Quality
Methods, LLC., and Adjunct Instructor with the University of San
Francisco. He has been in the software engineering and quality
assurance fields for over 25 years and now teaches courses and
consults with management in strategic and tactical planning for
software quality. For each of the last five years he has been elected
Chairman of the Santa Clara Valley Software Quality Association (SSQA),
a 750 member Task Group of the American Society for Quality Control
(ASQC). He has been a participant at dozens of software quality
conferences and has been Program Chairman for several international
conferences on software quality.
He is active as a Senior Member in the ASQC,
participating in the Software Division,
the Software Quality Task Group, and the ISO 9000 Task Group, and he is also a member of the ACM
and IEEE. He has earned an MBA, a MS in Electrical Engineering, a BA
in Computer Science, was among the first to earn a Certificate from
ASQC in Software Quality Engineering, and has been a registered ISO 9000 Lead Auditor.
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Prof. William Howden, University of San Diego
Paper Title: Partial Statistical Test Coverage and Abstract Testing (7T2)
Dr. Howden is a professor of Computer Science at the University of
California at San Diego. He has worked in the area of program testing
and analysis since 1975, with the publication of his paper on symbolic
evaluation and automated test data generation. His work in the area
includes material on fault based testing methods, functional testing,
and the use of comments in systematic program analysis. His recent
work includes the development of analysis tools for a real time and
Ada programs. His book, Functional Analysis and Program Testing,
emphasized the use of broad spectrum functional testing, in which
tests are used that exercise each of the functional components of a
program, including those from specifications and design. He has also
done an analysis of statistical testing methods, and published work on
models which describe how methods combine to produce a cumulative
improvement in fault detection and reliability prediction.
(howden@cs.ucsd.edu)
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Mr. Daniel Jackson, Carnegie Mellon University
Paper Title: Automatic Analysis of Object Models (6T2)
Daniel Jackson is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie
Mellon University.
He received his PhD from MIT, and MA from Oxford
University. His research interests include development methods, automatic
analysis of designs and specifications, and reverse engineering of code. He
has served on the program committees of several international
conferences, including FSE, IWSSD and FME. He was one of the designers of
the curriculum of CMU's Master of Software Engineering program, in which he
has taught courses in development methods and analysis for 5 years. He has
worked in both development and research for various companies, including
AT&T, DEC and Logica UK.
(Dr. Daniel Jackson's Home Page)
(dmj@cs.cmu.edu)
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Mr. Cem Kaner
Paper Title: Software Related Law (TD)
Panelist: Improving Maintainability of Automated Test Suites (4P)
Dr. Cem Kaner, J.D. Ph. D., is an attorney with a primary interest in the
law of software quality.
He also teaches courses and consults to publishers on software development and quality.
He is the senior author of Testing Computer Software (ITP. 1993).
He writes the Software Quality & The Law column in Software QA.
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Mr. Craig Kaplan, President, I.Q. Company
QuickStart Tutorial Title: Secrets of Software Quality (9Q)
Craig Kaplan
is President and CEO of I.Q. Company, a software development and
consulting company whose clients include IBM and the U.S. Air Force.
Prior to founding I.Q. Company, Dr. Kaplan worked at IBM's largest
software development site, where he conducted research and helped
to implement a site-wide Total Quality Management system.
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Mr. Taghi Khoshgoftaar, Florida Atlantic University
Paper Title: Identifying Fault-Prone Modules: A Case Study (4A1)
Dr. Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar is a professor of the Department of Computer Science
and Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida. An
internationally known authority on software measurement, software reliability
and quality engineering, he has also published more than 100 refereed papers
in these areas. He often is invited to serve on program committees, to
referee papers, and to speak at symposia. For the years 1992 and 1994 he
served as the Program Co-Chairman for the IEEE International Symposium on
Software Reliability Engineering. He was Program Chairman of the 1995
Software Engineering Research Forum. He was a Guest Editor of the IEEE
Computer - special issue on the Metrics in Software, September 1994. He is
the North American editor of the Software Quality Journal. Also, he is on the
editorial board of the Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications.
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Mr. Lech Krzanik & Dr. Jouni Simila, CCC Software Professionals Oy
Paper Title: Incremental Software Process Improvement Under "Smallest Useful Deliverable" (3M1)
Dr. Lech Krzanik is Senior Specialist at CCC Software Professionals Oy,
Oulu, Finland, and Assistant Professor at University of Oulu.
Dr. Jouni Simila has recently been involved with virtual prototyping
systems. He has 20 years experience with the management of software
projects.
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Mr. Brian Lawrence
Panelist: Improving Maintainability of Automated Test Suites (4P)
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Brian Lawrence is an author and consultant with extensive experience in the software industry.
He teaches and facilitates requirements analysis, peer reviews, project planning, life cycles,
and design specification techniques.
Brian serves as chair for the 1997 SEPG Conference and the Industrial Program Chair
for the IEEE Computer Society 1998 International Conference on Requirements Engineering.
Brian is a participant in Jerry Weinberg's 1996 Software Engineering Management Group and
is a member of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society.
Mr. Brian LeSuer, VP Of Quality, Segue Software
Vendor Presentation Title: Web Applications Testing (VT1)
Brian LeSeur
is Vice President of Service and Support for Segue Software, Inc.,
a supplier of cross-platform test tools. He has nearly 15 years
experience as a QA professional, including a dozen years as a software test
professional and QA manager in corporate quality assurance departments.
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Dr. James R. Lyle & Dolores R. Wallace, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Paper Title: Using the Unravel Program Slicing Tool to Evaluate High Integrity Software (3T1)
James R. Lyle received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mathematics from East
Tennessee State University and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science
from the University of Maryland at College Park.
He is a researcher at the Computer Systems Lab of National Institute of
Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland. His research area is
software tools for testing and debugging supported by graphics workstations.
Dr. Lyle is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the Association for
Computing Machinery.
(jlyle@nist.gov)
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Mr. Fraser Macdonald & James Miller, University of Strathclyde Department of Computer Science
Paper Title: Automated Generic Support for Software Inspection (8T2)
Fraser Macdonald received the B.Sc. in CS from the Strathclyde
University in 1994.
He is currently researching there for his Ph.D.
(fraser@cs.strath.ac.uk)
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Mr. Brian Marick, Testing Foundations
QuickStart Tutorial Title: The Test Manager at The Project Status Meeting (6Q)
Brian Marick worked for eleven years as a tester, developer, and line
manager, mostly on operating systems and compilers. Joint research at
the University of Illinois led to internal consulting and then, in
1992, his own consulting business, Testing Foundations. Because
practitioners are justifiably suspicious of those who talk about
software development but never actually do any, he tries to spend half
his time building, testing, and maintaining tools, some freely
available. He is the author of The Craft of Software Testing
(Prentice Hall, 1995).
(Brian Marick's Home Page)
(marick@cs.uiuc.EDU)
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Mr. Joe Maybee, Tektronix, Inc.
Paper Title: Mother2 and MOSS: Automated Test Generation from Real-Time Requirements (6A2)
Joe Maybee has been building real-time embedded systems for Tektronix
since 1978. Recently, Joe has focused on software quality in reactive systems
and the accurate definition of software requirements. Joe also teaches
Software Engineering at Portland State University, and is the co-author of an
upcoming textbook on Software Engineering.
Joe is the recipient of an Outstanding Achievement Award for Innovation from
the 1992 Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference for his work with the
MOTHER test system, and first-place winner at the 1993 Tektronix Engineering
Conference for his analysis of data gathered about the MOTHER system. This
paper was originally presented at the Pacific Northwest Software Quality
Conference in Portland, Oregon.
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Mr. Peter Middleton & Mr. Colm Dougan, Queens University Belfast
Paper Title: Grey Box Testing C++ via the Internet (7A1)
Peter Middleton lectures in Software Quality at The Queens University of Belfast.
He is currently working on industry based practical research to reduce the
estimated 40% of project costs allocated to testing.
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Ms. Wendy Moldauer, Director, Product Management, Rational Software
Vendor Presentation Title: Ensuring the Quality of Your Client/Server Applications as You Migrate from 16-32 Bit (VT2)
Wendy Moldauer is Director of Product Management for SQA Suite: TeamTest
Edition.
Prior to SQA, she was Manager of Application Quality and Deployment
at Arthur D. Little, where she helped transition to client/server application
development and testing.
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Mr. Kevin Mooney & Mr. David Chadwick, Performance Awareness
Vendor Presentation Title: Overcoming the Challenges of Testing Client/Server Applications (VT3)
Kevin Mooney is a software developer with 12 years experience designing
and supporting products for application generation and software testing.
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Mr. John Musa, Consultant
Paper Title: Operational Profiles in Software-Reliability-Engineered Testing (2T2)
Paper Title: Applying Operational Profiles in Testing (TF)
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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Mr. Don O'Neill, Independent Consultant
Paper Title: National Software Quality Experiment, A Lesson in Measurement (3M2)
Don O'Neill is a seasoned software engineering manager and technologist
currently serving as an independent consultant. Following his twenty-seven
year career with IBM's Federal Systems Division, Mr. O'Neill completed a three
year residency at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute
(SEI) under IBM's Technical Academic Career Program. There he developed a
blueprint for charting software engineering evolution in the organization
including the training architecture and change management strategy needed to
transition skills into practice.
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Mr. Rob Oshana, Texas Instruments
Paper Title: Improving a System Regression Test With a Statistical Approach Implementing Usage Models Developed Using Field Collected Data (8A1)
Robert Oshana is a Member of the Group Technical Staff in the Systems Group
at Texas Instruments. He has been developing real-time embedded software
for 14 years. Robert has masters degrees in Electrical Engineering,
Computer Science, and Business Administration. He is a member of IEEE and
ACM and holds a PE license in Texas.
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Mr. Michael E. Peters, Principal Software Engineer, BEA Systems.
Paper Title: Managing Test Automation: Reigning in the Chaos of a Multiple Platform Test Environment (3A1)
Michael Peters has over 11 years of experience with Software Testing, defining
test methodologies, developing test tools, and creating test management systems.
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Mr. Robert Poston, Aonix
Paper Title: 10X Testing: Automating Specification-Based Testing (TG)
Robert Poston is the Director of Software Testing Tools and Practices at Aonix, Inc.
He has over twenty years of experience managing and developing software for communication,
process control, simulation, radar, numerical control, business, and operating systems.
He has degrees in electronics engineering, power engineering, and computer science.
A senior member of the IEEE, Mr. Poston received IEEE awards in 1971, 1980, and 1988
for his contributions to the engineering profession.
He served as quality and testing specialist on President Reagan's 1984 People-to-People
software engineering delegation to China.
He chaired the IEEE Software Engineering Standards Committee from 1978 to 1982
and founded the first conference on Software Standards (SESAW) in 1982.
For four years he developed, directed, and taught the IEEE
Software Engineering Standards Seminars.
Poston is co-chairperson of the IEEE Computer Society's Standard 1175
that defines interconnections among software tools.
Bob has written over 60 articles about software quality and testing,
has served as a charter member of the editorial board of IEEE Software,
and has lectured and taught in hundreds of professional forums.
Today he is focused on automating software development and testing.
His most recent book titled Automating Specification-Based Software Testing
is published by the IEEE/CS Press.
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Mr. Marc Roper, Strathclyde University
Paper Title: Computer Aided Software Testing Using Genetic Algorithms (2T1)
Marc Roper graduated from Reading University with a degree in Computer Science
and worked as a programmer before becoming a research assistant at Sunderland
Polytechnic. He was appointed lecturer at the Polytechnic and was awarded his
PhD in 1988. In 1989 he moved to the Computer Science Department at
Strathclyde University where he is currently a senior lecturer. His research
interests are in the area of Software Engineering -- specifically testing and
empirical and experimental computer science.
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Ms. Johanna Rothman, Rothman Consulting Group
Paper Title: Is your Investment in Quality and Process Improvement Paying Off? (7M1)
Johanna Rothman has over nineteen years of experience in software
engineering and management. She works with companies to improve
their product development practices.
(jr@jrothman.com)
(Johanna Rothman's Home Page)
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Mr. Robert M. Schultz, Motorola
QuickStart Tutorial Title: Test Coverage Analysis (7Q)
Robert M. Schultz is a Lead Software Test Engineer at Motorola's Cellular
Infrastructure Group. He is actively involved in the improvement of software
testing process and software testing technology within this business group,
as well as the day-to-day operations of testing cellular base stations. Rob
has been in the software testing and software quality field since 1989, and
has been in the software industry for over 10 years. He received the Bachelor
of Science in Computer Science degree from Valparaiso University.
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Mr. John Seddon, Consultant
Keynote Title: In Pursuit of Quality: The Case Against ISO 9000 (1P1)
John Seddon is an occupational psychologist, researcher, author and
consultant. In 1996 he published his second research report on ISO 9000 -
"ISO 9000 - Three Case Studies", available from his web-site. John is the
author of the widely acclaimed "I Want You To Cheat: the Unreasonable Guide to
Service and Quality in Organizations". In 1996 he published a cd-rom for
managers entitled "Change Management Thinking" and this year he is publishing
"In Pursuit of Quality: the Case Against ISO 9000".
John Seddon's Home Page
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Mr. Bob Smith, Project Manager, European Software Institute
Paper Title: Introduction to SPICE (ISO 15504 Software Process Assessment) (TC)
Matthew Cooke is a senior member of the technical staff at the European
Software Institute, Bilbao, Spain. He is the project leader responsible for
the development of the Institute's SPICE training course of which he is an
experienced instructor. He has over 12 years of experience in the design,
development and assessment of real-time and safety related systems in the
avionics, rail, nuclear and defense industries. He is a Chartered Engineer
with a degree in Control Engineering.
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Mr. Neil Smith, Test Manager, Java Class Libraries, Microsoft, Inc.
Panelist: Panel Session: How does Java Address Software Quality? (8P)
Neil Smith is a test manager in Microsoft's Internet Client and
Collaboration Division, focusing on Java class libraries bundled with
Microsoft's Windows 32 Java Virtual Machine. He has worked as an
engineer and a manager in quality assurance at Microsoft since 1989,
shipping a variety of system-level programming libraries and development
products. Most recently, he spent two years as the test manager for
Microsoft's Internet Explorer World Wide Web browser, shipping three
versions of that product. Before working at Microsoft, Neil was a
Member of the Technical Staff at The MITRE Corporation in Bedford,
Massachusetts, and spent several years in the United States Navy as a
submarine officer.
(neils.microsoft.com)
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Mr. Paul Taylor, Product Manager, Fujitsu Software Corporation
Paper Title: Workware & ISO 9000 (4M1)
Paul Taylor is a Product Manager in the TeamWARE group of Fujitsu Software
Corporation. He is responsible for strategy planning and market research for
workflow and imaging products. Prior to joining Fujitsu, Taylor was a project
manager in the systems division at Ramtek and a senior associate in the entry
systems division at IBM/England.
Taylor holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Essex. He
has also completed a Program and Product Management certificate from the
University of California, a Mastering Management Skills certificate from the
American Electronics Association, and a UNIX SVR4 Intervals certificate from
AT&T. Taylor is currently working on his MBA at the University of Phoenix.
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Mr. G. Thomas, Vienna University of Technology
Paper Title: On Quality Improvement in "Heroic" Projects (8M1)
The author is a member of the faculty of computer science at the Vienna
University of Technology where he
has done research in quality assurance,
project management and role models in software engineering. A second focus
has been human computer interaction and user interface design. Besides the
typical academic work of lecturing and publishing the authors have done
software engineering consulting as well as people and process management in various industrial projects.
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Mr. Richard Turmel, Manager of System Test Development, UNIFI Communication, Inc.
Paper Title: Testing an Object Request Broker (ORB) (9A1)
Starting in 1988 Richard Turmel was a software engineer at DEC.
From 1988 to 1992 he developed and supported proprietary CAD software in DEC's VAX/VMS group.
From 1992 to 1004 he worked in CIS, developing test software for DEC's transaction processing software product, ACMSxp.
From 1994 to 1997 he lead a test group for DEC's ObjectBroker Product,
developing a test environment which is the basis for this presentation.
Richard received a BA in Mathematics/Computer Science from Merrimack College in 1982.
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Mr. Plinio Vilela & Jose C. Maldonado & Mario Jino, DCA-FEEC-UNICAMP
Paper Title: Data Flow Based Testing of Programs with Pointers A Strategy Based on Potential Use (2T2)
Plinio R. S. Vilela graduated in Computer Science from USP/Brazil in 1991, the
MSc. degree in Electrical Engineering/Computation and Automation from
UNICAMP/Brazil in 1994, spent a year as a Visiting Scholar at Purdue
University/USA from October/95 to November/96 sponsored by CNPq/Brazil, and
will conclude the Doct. in Electrical Engineering/Computation and Automation at UNICAMP in 1998.
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Mr. Otto Vinter, Manager, Software Technology & Process Improvement, Bruel & Kjaer
Paper Title: How to Apply Static and Dynamic Analysis in Practice (6A1)
Otto Vinter is managing a Software Technology department at Bruel &
Kjaer, a major measuring instrument manufacturer, headquartered in
Denmark with subsidiaries world-wide.
He is currently responsible for CEC sponsored projects to improve the
development process. In this position, he has also been active in
defining software engineering standards, procedures, and methods to be
employed at Bruel & Kjaer. He has been the driving force in the company's
transition from procedural programming to Object-Oriented development.
He has managed software development projects for 25+ years; with Bruel &
Kjaer from 1986, before that with the Danish branch of Control Data Corp-
oration, and with Regnecentralen.
The author received his Masters Degree in Computer Science from the Danish
Technical University in 1968. He has given public seminars, been associate
teacher for BSc. level education in Computer Science, and is an active
participant in Danish software-knowledge exchange groups.
(OVINTER@bk.dk)
Otto Vinter's Home Page
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Mr. William Walker & Ms. Nancy Jenkins, Director, Product Marketing, Performance Awareness
Vendor Presentation Title: A Road Map To Successful Performance Testing of Client/Server Applications (VT6)
William Walker is currently Director of Product Marketing for Performance
Awareness Corporation where he manages the identification of customer needs
and definition of new product features for the company's software testing
tools. He has over fifteen years experience in product management and
marketing for computer systems and application software at Hewlett-Packard,
Pillar Corporation, and Global Software. At Hewlett-Packard, Mr. Walker
helped manage the introduction of the company's first RISC-based business
computers, which established new price/performance standards for the
industry.
Mr. Walker was also a Senior Consultant with Booz, Allen & Hamilton, where he
applied computer modeling techniques to new energy resource studies for
private and public sector clients.
Mr. Walker earned B.S. and Masters degrees in Systems Engineering from the
University of Virginia. He also has an MBA from Stanford University.
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Ms. Dolores R. Wallace & Mr. Herbert Hecht, National Institute Of Standards & Technology
Paper Title: Error Fault and Failure Data Collection and Analysis (7T1)
Dolores R. Wallace leads the Software Standard Reference Materials and Data
Project which provides metrology and reference data for software assurance;
she researches and develops methods and tools that improve software quality
and correctness. She also serves as Program Manager, Center for High Integrity
Software System Assurance (CHISSA), a collaborative effort for research and
technology transfer among industry, government, and academia.
She is the recipient of the 1994 Department of Commerce Bronze Medal Award.
She has been responsible for research, guidelines and standards in high integrity software,
software verification, validation, and testing; software management, software quality assurance.
She has published and lectured widely on these topics.
She is co-author of the book Software Quality Control, Error Analysis, and Testing,
Noyes Data Corporation, 1995.
She has served as General Chair of COMPASS Board of Directors; General Chair, COMPASS `90 Conference and as
Co-Guest Editor, IEEE Software, May 1989 Issue on Software V&V.
She has an MS Mathematics from Case Western Reserve University.
(dwallace@nist.gov)
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Dr. Tony Wasserman, President, Software Methods & Tools
Panelist: Panel Session: How does Java Address Software Quality? (8P)
(tonyw@methods-tools.com)
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Mr. Joachim Wegener & Mr. Matthias Grochtmann, Diamler-Benz AG
Paper Title: Testing Temporal Correctness of Real-Time Systems by Means of Genetic Algorithms (4T2)
Joachim Wegener studied computer science at the Technical University of Berlin.
He has been working in the field of software quality assurance and software
testing since 1989.
(wegener@dbresearch-berlin.DE)
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Mr. Ian Wells, Hewlett Packard
Paper Title: HP Fortran 90 Compiler Project Case Study (8M2)
The author is a Software Design Engineer in Hewlett-Packard's
Massachusetts Language Laboratory and has been responsible for
the Quality Assurance of HP's Fortran90 1.0 compiler.
(ian@ch.hp.com)
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Prof. Lee J. White & Khalil Abdullah, Department of Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University
Paper Title: A Firewall Approach for the Regression Testing of Object-Oriented Software (6T1)
Dr. Lee J. White
received his BSEE from the University of
Cincinnati, with co-op experiences at the Dow Chemical Company,
Midland, Michigan. He received the MS in 1962 and PhD in 1967 in
Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan. He was
appointed as Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering
at Wright State University in 1967, and moved to the Department of
Computer and Information Science at Ohio State University in 1968.
He held an academic position in that Department through 1983, and
served as Professor and Chairman from 1978-1983. In 1983 he moved
to the Department of Computing Science at the University of
Alberta, where he was appointed as Professor and Chairman.
In 1988 he assumed his present position as Professor and
Chairman of the Department of Computer Engineering and Science at
Case Institute of Technology.
He has consulted for a number of
industrial firms including MYRIAS, Monsanto Research Laboratory,
North American Rockwell, and United States Steel.
His research interests are in software engineering with emphasis
on software testing and verification, and algorithm analysis.
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Mr. Kerry Zallar, Pacific Bell
Paper Title: Practical Experience in Automating Testing (2M1)
Mr. Zaller has worked with test automation tools since 1987.
As a member of a test group he initiated and built an automated
test environment for a character based on-line payroll system.
He then moved on to a support organization where, from 1990 through 1992,
he supported test automation and software testing as an internal consultant within
Pacific Bell.
Kerry Zallar's Testing Reference Home Page
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Mr. Albrecht Zeh & Paul Bininda, Sekas GmbH
Paper Title: Quality Improvement by Automatic Generation and Management of Test Cases (9A2)
Albrecht Zeh was a Co-founder and Technical Director at SEKAS GmbH, and specializes in
development of software and hardware integration tests, and test tools.
He has written approximately 30 publications for national and international conferences.
(zeh@sekas.DE)
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Mr. Nicholas Zvegintzov, President/Editor, Software Management Network
Tutorial Title: Testing for Year 2000 (TI)
Nicholas Zvegintzov is an internationally known expert on the management of
existing software systems, including testing, documentation, adaptation,
functional modification, and re-engineering. He keeps in close touch with
users, managers, practitioners and researchers responsible for the future of
existing software, and he serves as a unique channel of communication between
these communities.
He was General Chair of the 1985 IEEE Conference on Software Maintenance
(ICSM), and serves on the ICSM Program Committee (1983-date). He has given
Tutorials for ICSM, for the Washington DC Chapter of the ACM, for CASE-95,
for the Software Management Association Annual Meeting, and for several
commercial training companies.
He has a B.A. and M.A. from Oxford University in Experimental Psychology and
Philosophy. From 1962 to 1969 he researched in computer science and
artificial intelligence at the University of California, Berkeley, and at
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh. From 1969 to 1979 he programmed,
designed, upgraded, and documented application systems. In 1979 he
established a full-time software management consulting practice.
Nicholas Zvegintzov's Home Page
(72050.570@compuserve.com)
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