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10th International Software Quality Week 1997
27-30 May 1997
Summary Program Description
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Here's a quick summary of what you'll hear at the
10th Annual International Software Quality Week (QW'97).
TUTORIALS
There are 10 half-day tutorials by well-known experts in their field,
with topics that include:
- 10X Testing: Automating Specification-Based Testing
- An Overview of Testing
- Applying Operational Profiles in Testing
- Cleanroom Development: Formal Methods, Judiciously Applied
- Introduction to SPICE (ISO 15504 Software Process Assessment)
- Optimizing Software Inspections
- Software Engineering Models for Quality: Comparing the SEI Capability Maturity Model (CMM) to ISO 9001
- Software Related Law
- Test Automation for Object Oriented Systems
KEYNOTES
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday Keynotes Talks take on such hot topics as:
- In Pursuit of Quality: The Case Against ISO 9000
- Software Dynamics
- Keeping The "Engineering" In Software Engineering
- Cyberspace Attacks and Countermeasures
- Gaining Confidence in Distributed Systems
- Y2K Testing
QUICK-START MINI-TUTORIALS
The Quick-Start track of 90-minute mini-tutorials includes renowned
experts in their fields with these titles:
- How to be an Expert Tester
- Managing Software Quality -- How to Avoid Disaster and Achieve Success
- Making Contracts Testable
- Secrets of Software Quality
- The Test Manager at The Project Status Meeting
- Test Coverage Analysis
SPECIAL PANEL SESSIONS
- How Does Java Address Software Quality ?
- Improving the Maintenance of Automated Test Suites
TECHNOLOGY TRACK, APPLICATIONS TRACK, and MANAGEMENT TRACK
There are 42 regular papers in the three tracks including titles such as:
- A General Path Generation Algorithm for Coverage Testing
- Testing Timing Behaviors of Real Time Software
- An Integrated Test Environment for Distributed Applications
- Generating Trace Checkers for Test Oracles
- Mutation-based Regression Testing
- Partial Statistical Test Coverage and Abstract Testing
- Using the Unravel Program Slicing Tool to Evaluate High Integrity Software
- Testing Temporal Correctness of Real-Time Systems by Means of Genetic Algorithms
- A Firewall Approach for the Regression Testing of Object-Oriented Software
- Guerrilla SQA
- National Software Quality Experiment: A Lesson in Measurement
- Catching Bugs in the Web: Using the World Wide Web to Detect Software Localization Defects
- Experiences with OS Reliability Testing on the Exemplar System
- Identifying Fault-Prone Modules: A Case Study
- Test Automation Solutions for Complex Internetworking Products
- Grey Box Testing C++ via the Internet
- Automating the Process of Testing Security and High-Risk Networks
- Managing Test Automation: Reigning in the Chaos of a Multiple Platform Test Environment
- A Requirement Traceability Application for Space Systems
And many, many more.
EXHIBITS AND VENDOR PRESENTATIONS
The technical tradeshow will have over 25 different companies and a
technically reviewed Vendor Technical Track will present carefully
selected Vendor talks.
For complete information or to obtain a copy of the Conference Brochure
please send Email to qw@sr-corp.com.