11th INTERNATIONAL
SOFTWARE QUALITY WEEK
(QW'98)
26-29 May 1998, San Francisco, California USA

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

The 11th International Software Quality Week Technical Program has a very strong technical program organized into separate tracks depending on the content of the presentations. The team of speakers at QW'98 is the strongest ever assembled. Updated 17 April 1998.

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Mr. Larry Apfelbaum (Teradyne Software & Systems Test) [USA]
Reducing the Time to Thoroughly Test a GUI (7A1)

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. Bill Asburry (Dynamic Software Technologies, Inc.) [USA]
Integrating Rapid Application Testing With Rapid Application Development (3S2)

Bill Asburry is the President and founder of Dynamic Software Technologies, Inc. Bill has more than 22 years experience in software development, project management, and application engineering. He is best understood by looking at his accomplishments through three key measurements of any new offering: Innovation, Efficiency and Quality.

Innovation and Efficiency:
Bill had co-authored seven research papers and received a United States Patent before he reached age 21. Applying a degree in Electrical Engineering at GE Aircraft Jet Engines, Bill was highly noted for introducing innovative technology and methodology into the GE product environment. His emphasis upon efficiency resulted in engineer testing productivity improvements on the scale of 50:1; and testing optimization principles that decreased test time for certain products by 50%.

Quality:
With 14 years of service in the areas of Jet Engine testing and management, Bill is an expert in test planning, software development and testing practices. With a background in Aircraft engine design and manufacturing, Bill learned early the absolute need for zero defects.

Six-sigma quality performance requires the anticipation of problems that comes from a commitment to continuous improvement. Building upon his background in these related quality practices, Bill is applying automation to software testing to achieve world class levels of software quality. His commitment to the application of software quality in software development is manifested not in academics, but in everyday software development projects. Dynamic Software Technologies, Inc. is one of the few companies in the United States offering the services of software testing and training, software development, technical documentation, and products that address software testing.

Dynamic Software Technologies, Inc., is the holding company of four subsidiaries, which include the foundation company of ExperTest, Inc., started in 1993. Building on steady and continued growth, Bill started Dynamic Innovations to launch a product line of "rapid application testing" products. The first of these products is named TesTwizard(tm).

Bill is a strong advocate of the establishment of Software Quality Testing as a discipline that should require foundation education and certification. Bill's experience in the field of software testing has lead him to say that:"Too often we find that quality of software testing is not planned well, executed poorly, and considered the root cause of program overruns and schedule lateness. The combination of rapid application testing as a best practice, along with basic software quality testing education, will have a dramatic impact upon the return on investment of software projects. This will apply whether these developments are intended for internal or commercial use.
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Dr. David A. Banks, Dr. Paul Black, Dr. Leonard Gallagher, Dr. Charles Hagwood, Dr. Raghu Kacker, Ms. Lynne Rosenthal & Dr. James Yen, (NIST) [USA]
Software Testing by Statistical Methods (8T2)

David Banks is a mathematical statistician at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. From 1987-1997 he was on the faculty of the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University, and before that spent one year visiting at the University of Cambridge, and two years as a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1984 from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He is co-editor of the three update volumes of the _Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences_, president-elect of the Classification Society of North America, and has done research in nonparametrics, computer-intensive statistical methods, graph-valued random variables, and social science.

Dr. Black has over 20 years of industrial experience with computers and software. He managed business data processing for a life insurance company for several years, developed IC design and validation tools for nearly a decade, and worked several years in configuration management (CM) and software QA. Dr. Black has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brigham Young University and is currently in the Software Quality Group of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Dr. Black has published papers on software CM, applied queuing theory, formal methods, and software verification. He is a member of IEEE, Computer Society, and ACM.

Dr. Gallagher is member of the Software Standards Group of the Software Diagnostics and Conformance Testing Division of the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Dr. Gallagher has a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Colorado and has been working in various areas of information technology standards at NIST for over 20 years. He was instrumental in the development of the SQL database language standards which are both US and International standards.

Charles Hagwood is a mathematical statistician at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Previously, he was on the faculty at the University of Virginia. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1979 from the University of Michigan. He was a Ford Fellow at Stanford, 1984-1985, and won the Andrew R. Chi prize in 1991. His main reserach interests are in stochastic modeling and related fields.

Raghu Kacker is a Supervisory Mathematical Statistician in the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Previous Employment: AT&T Bell Labs Quality Assurance Center: Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (1985-88), MTS (1980-85). Virginia Tech: Assistant Professor (1979-80). Education: Ph.D. (Statistics), Iowa State University (1979). Current job: manage and participate in collaborative research involving measurement and testing aspects of information technology. Professional Recognition: Fellow of the American Statistical Association and elected member of the International Statistical Institute.

Lynne Rosenthal is the manager of the Conformance Testing Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Information Technology Laboratory. She is responsible for the development of software conformance test methods for promoting quality development and accelerating implementations and use of information technology. Ms. Rosenthal has developed conformance tests for several standards, including the CGM, PHIGS and IGES standards. Ms. Rosenthal has been an active member of the International Standards Organization (ISO) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Technical Committees on Computer Graphics, and is the ISO editor for CGM Amendment 1, Rules for Profiles.

James Yen is a mathematical statistician at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Statistics at Stanford in 1997. He works in the area of software reliability and data mining.
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Dr. Boris Beizer (Independent Consultant) [USA]
An Overview of Testing -- Unit, Integration, System -- Outline and Index (TE)
Prioritizing Your Y2K Testing Effort: Debunking the Special Dates Myth (5P1)

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. Larry Bernstein (National Software Council) [USA]
Trustworthy Software (3Q)

Larry is a recognized expert in Software Technology, project management, network management and technology conversion. He is president of the National Software Council with the goal of improving American software competitiveness, making software trustworthy and getting the software industry, the government and academia to work better together. He is now doing consulting through his firm Have Laptop - Will Travel and is the Executive Technologist with Network Programs, Inc. building software systems for managing telephone services.

Larry was an Executive Director of AT&T Bell Laboratories where he worked for 35 years.

As a software project manager he successfully built, sold and deployed a software system that automated the 100 million paper records telephone companies used to keep track of telephone lines to people's homes. Through his leadership new data base algorithms were discovered, implemented and patented. He led the development of more than 10 projects ranging in size from 50-400 people spanning 2-5 years of development bringing them in within budget and on schedule.

As a technologist he invented the concepts of 'dynamic provisioning' and 'routing to intelligence' which are included in the seven patents he holds. He saw the opportunities contained in research into software fault tolerance and championed its commercialization. It is now used in 24 products deployed in over 500 sites.

As a contributor to the profession he was recognized as a Fellow of the IEEE, the ACM and Ball State University. He is a member of the Russian based International Information Academy. He is a visiting associate of the Center for Software Engineering at the University of Southern California.
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Mr. James R. Bindas (Intel Corporation) [USA]
Lesson Learned: Transferring Software Development Best Known Methods (BKMs) Between Product Lines(STAND-BY)

James R. Bindas is a Software Process Engineer with Intel Corporation in Hillsboro, Oregon. His tasks include working with the software development community to help standardize and improve software development processes. James has been working with Intel for eight years in various software roles ranging from software tester to project leader. Before joining Intel, James worked for RCA/GE Solid State and Harris Semiconductor as a Quality Assurance Technician. James holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor of Science in Graphic Communications from California University of Pennsylvania.
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Mr. Robert V. Binder (RBSC Corporation) [USA]
Testing Strategies for Object-Oriented Systems (TI)
Testing Object-Oriented Systems: Best Practices (10P2)

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.
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Mr. Larry Boldt (Technology Builders, Inc.) [USA]
Y2K Requirements-Driven Automated Testing...Do You Have a License to Drive? (2S2)

Larry Boldt is a co-founder and Senior Vice-President of Software Services for Technology Builders, Inc. (TBI). He is an accomplished information engineering manager and technician with over 25 years of experience in managing and providing business process re-engineering (BPR) services to corporate and government clients. Larry's primary areas of functional expertise include: Larry holds a BA degree in Business Management from St. Leo College and an MS degree in Organizational Management from Maryville University.
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Mr. Michael Bowden (CYRANO) [USA]
Year 2000: A Practical Approach to Reducing Business Risk (2S1)

Michael Bowden is the Technical Director for CYRANO's Year 2000 Software Testing Solutions. His specialty is software tool integration and reengineering the software development process. He previously served at the Director of the Professional Services Division. Mr. Bowden has a degree in Software Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, and over 18 years of experience in software development and Information Systems Management.
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Dr. Eugenio Cervetto (Performance Research) [ITALY]
Performance Evaluation of Real-Time Embedded Software Applications using PREDICTA (7S1)

Dr. Eugenio Cervetto received his degree in solid state physics from the University of Torino, Italy. Since 1994 he has been involved in the Thin Films and Semiconductors group in Olivetti-Lexicon focusing on silicon processing simulation techniques. He joined Performance Research in 1996 and currently holds the responsibility of the European collaborative R&D projects. His area of activity and research is in the application of performance-oriented modeling and prediction techniques to the software and system development processes.
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Dr. Antonio Cicu (MetriQs Srl / OSRA SISTEMI) [ITALY]
Managing a Customer's Requirements in a SME: A Process Improvement Initiative Using an IT-based Methodology and Tool (8S2)

Antonio Cicu, master in Electronic Engineering, made the main steps of his career in Software Quality Assurance. He managed the definition process and operational application of organizational, methodological, and quality standards of the Software Engineering Division at the Research & Development Laboratories of Bull Italia, in Pregnana Milanese (Milano, Italy). He has been a reviewer in the ESPRIT projects SCOPE and METKIT, regarding the definition of norms for software products quality evaluation, and the development of education products for teaching software metrics. Member of AICQ, UNINFO, IEEE, and participant to the SPICE project, presently he provides consultancy and education services for software process improvement, as President of MetriQs Srl and Technical Director of the QualityLab Consortium.
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Mr. James M. Clarke (Lucent Technologies) [USA]
Automated Test Generation from a Behavioral Model (2T1)

Jim Clarke is a software test engineer with Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies in Naperville, IL. His current assignment involves exploring and implementing new testing technologies and processes for the 5ESS-2000(tm) Switching Project. Jim's testing career began in the early 80's, performing hardware/software acceptance testing for the U.S. Navy. Jim has been a software tester with Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies for 8 years.
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Ms. Maxine Crowther & Mr. Dave Oliver (Cadence Design Systems, Inc.) [USA]
Automating Defect Tracking and Reporting: A Solution for the 21st Century (2A2)

Maxine Crowther is currently a Senior Quality Consultant for the Software Engineering organization of Cadence Design Systems, a market leader in the Electronic Design Automation software industry. She had a 23 year career at Digital Equipment Corporation where she was an Information Systems professional, led by Digital's Executive Information Center, co-authored a long-range planning methodology, and consulted in the corporate quality organization. She has focused on process design and re-design, service quality, team facilitation, and quality methodology design, facilitation, and training. She currently focuses on creating methodologies in support of metrics discovery and the automation of metrics collection and reporting. Maxine has a BS in Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MS in Total Quality from the Falmouth School. She sits on the board of the Boston Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN), is a Massachusetts Quality Award Examiner, and is a member of ASQ and the ASQ Software Division Metrics Sub-committee.

Dave Oliver is currently a Quality Manager for the Software Engineering organization of Cadence Design Systems, a market leader in the Electronic Design Automation software industry. Dave spent 10 years at Digital Equipment Corporation developing and supporting mini computer hardware, software, and network products. Dave has been with Cadence for over five years and has been responsible for the program management of key EDA products and the management of the Physical Design QA organization. He is currently responsible for the Cadence corporate defect tracking/release management system and is leading the development of the next generation system. Dave has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
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Ms. Hazel Curtis & Ms. Diana Burkhardt (Allstor Software / University of Luton) [ENGLAND]
Automated Test Suites from Reverse Engineering and Planguage (8A2)

Hazel Curtis graduated from the University of Salford, with a joint honours degree in Mathematics and Computer Science. She has gained experience as a software engineer designing interfaces for a sophisticated instrumentation package. Most recently as part of a UK government technology transfer initiative Hazel has been investigating automated software testing strategies at Allstor Software, a subsidiary company of Plasmon Data Ltd. with the University of Luton.

Diana Burkhardt graduated from Oxford University and is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Luton. She has a particular interest in Human Centred Computing; current research concerns quality in software using Taguchi methodology to develop highly user-friendly interfaces. Other major projects include the Multifacet Language Laboratory based on the integration of all aspects of multimedia to assist language learning students, developed at the University of Birmingham, and the use of AI including genetic programming to predict trends in financial markets.
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Mr. Gregory T. Daich (SAIC) [USA]
Essential Year 2000 Practices (2M2)

Mr. Gregory T. Daich is a Senior Software Engineer with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) on contract with the Software Technology Support Center (STSC). Mr. Daich supports STSC's Software Quality and Test (SQT) Group with over 21 years of experience in developing and testing software. He has taught over 40 test and inspection process improvement seminars in the last 4 years. Mr. Daich consults with government and commercial organizations on improving the effectiveness and efficiency of software quality practices. These practices have been applied in supporting and testing Year 2000 upgrades which is where he focuses most of his time, lately.

Mr. Daich has applications experience involving the development of:

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Mr. Manu Das (SOFFRONT Software, Inc.) [USA]
The Revolution in Defect Tracking and Analysis, Software Quality and the Internet (6S2)

Manu Das, President and founder of Soffront Software, Inc., began his career as an instructor in computer programming, architecture, and graphics at the University of Buffalo, New York and University of Santa Clara, California. After that, he worked as a senior software engineer for FMC Corp. and National Semiconductor Corp., both located in Santa Clara, Calif. Manu spent next nine years at Olivetti Advanced Technology Center, Cupertino, Calif., where he held management positions in software engineering and product development. As the manager of software engineering tools, Manu designed and administered various software programs including a defect tracking and a configuration management system used by engineers, developers, managers, and product support groups at all sites in the company. Since 1993, Manu has been the President and the Chief Executive Officer of Soffront Software, Inc., located at Milpitas, Calif. Mr. Das can be reached at (408) 934-7980 or manu@soffront.com.
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Mr. Michael Deck (Cleanroom Software Engineering, Inc.) [USA]
How Testers Can Use Formal Methods to Analyze and Improve Software Requirements Specification (TD)

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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Ms. Claudia Dencker (Software SETT Corporation) [USA]
A Tester's Perspective of a Y2K Project at Hewlett-Packard (6M2)

Claudia Dencker is the founder and President of Software SETT Corporation, a company specializing in systems evaluation, software testing and training. She has been involved in the software quality assurance field shortly after her completion of studies at San Jose State University which occurred in 1979. Her expertise has been recognized by many local and international Silicon Valley companies. She has a life long interest in the fine arts and music. Ms. Dencker dedicates her energies and resources to her business and her family.
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Mr. Thomas A. Drake (Coastal Research & Technology, Inc.) [USA]
Is Quality Really "Good Enough" for the Millennium? (2Q)

Mr. Drake is a software quality specialist and management and information technology consultant for Coastal Research & Technology, Inc. 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 80,000,000 lines of Java, C++, C, Ada, Fortran, PL/I, and Assembly code plus others. Over the past several years, some very interesting patterns have emerged. The result of all the analysis is a highly correlated set of measures that have been developed into a streamlined set of code-level release criteria. This data is then combined with defect density information derived from dynamic testing data from each "phase" or milestone of the development life cycle as a feedback loop for making informed business decisions to improve the quality of the software over time via the process by which the development project is delivered.

Mr. Drake has spoken at several international conferences and frequently conducts interactive and facilitated educational and general interest seminars on the people, process and technology sides of software development and enterprise-level information management systems.

He considers himself a quality advocate and a digital archaeologist.

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 also involved in Y2K contingency planning and related business enterprise and mission continuity support.

He is currently focused on the development and use of product-level and reflected process-level OO metrics for C++ and Java.

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.

Mr. Drake is a member of IEEE and an affiliate member of the IEEE Computer Society.
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Mr. Dave Duchesneau (Boeing Commercial Airplane Group) [USA]
Design for Test (Or, How to Make it Hard for the Pernicious Bugs to Hide) (10P1)

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. Dietmar Ernst, Mr. Frank Houdek & Mr. Thilo Schwinn (University of Ulm / Daimler-Benz AG) []
An Experimental Comparison of Static and Dynamic Defect Detection Techniques (STAND-BY)

Mr. Dietmar Ernst has studied computer science at the University of Ulm and received his diploma in 1996. Currently he works as a scientist in the context of experimental software engineering. His research activities concentrates on methods for requirements engineering, CASE--tools, and defect detection techniques.
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Mr. Frank Houdek received the diploma in computer science from the University of Ulm, Germany. Currently, he is working as a Ph.D. student at the Daimler--Benz research center. Mr. Houdek's research interests include empirical software engineering with special emphasis on mapping of questions from industry to external investigations and remapping the found results. He is also involved in continuous process improvement at Daimler--Benz applying the concepts of QIP and Experience Factory.
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Mr. Thilo Schwinn is currently working as a researcher at Daimler-Benz labs in the field of static defect detection. He examines the efficiency of different review methods and is involved in introducing reviews in Daimler-Benz' software development. He received his diploma from the University of Ulm in 1996; now he is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Ulm.
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Mr. Fabbrizio Fabbrini (IEI-CNR / Dip. di Informatica) [ITALY]
Achieving Quality in Natural Language Requirements (4A1)

Fabrizio Fabbrini obtained his degree in Computer Science from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 1974. Since 1975 he has served as a scientific researcher at the Institute for Information Processing (IEI) of the National Research Council (CNR), where now he is Senior Research Fellow. Fabrizio Fabbrini's present activity is focused on Software Quality, and more precisely on the development of methodologies and standards for the assessment and the evaluation of software products and processes, with particular attention to Software Engineering Standards and Software Certification.
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Mr. Tom Gilb (Independent Consultant) [NORWAY]
Tutorial Title: Evolutionary Delivery Project Management (TH)
The Alternatives and Supplements to Conventional Testing (4Q)

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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Mr. Robert L. Glass (Computing Trends) [USA]
The Software Crisis: Is it for Real? (1P1)

Robert L. Glass is president of Computing Trends, publishers of The Software Practitioner and PERC (Practical Emerging Research Concepts in Information Technology). He has been active in the field of computing and software for over 40 years, largely in industry (1954 - 1982 and 1988 - present), but also as an academic (1982 - 1988). He is the author of over 20 books and 60 papers on computing subjects, editor of Elsevier's Journal of Systems and Software, and a columnist for several periodicals including Communications of the ACM and IEEE Software. He was for 15 years a lecturer for the ACM, and he received an honorary Ph.D. from Linkoping University of Sweden in 1995. He describes himself by saying "my head is in the academic end of computing, but my heart is in its practice".
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Mr. Steve Goldstein (Genetics Computer Group) [USA]
Strategies for Testing a Web-based Application: Divide, Conquer & Automate (6A1)

Steve Goldstein is a quality assurance engineer at Genetics Computer Group (GCG), a wholly owned subsidiary of Oxford Molecular Group, Inc. GCG's Wisconsin Package consists of over 130 programs providing molecular biologists with practical software analysis tools that implement the most important techniques of mathematical biology. The ninth edition of the Wisconsin Package is being used by more than 35,000 scientists in 40 countries around the world.

Steve received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked as a QA engineer for three years and has been "computer literate" for over twenty five years. He attempts to apply skills learned in his previous careers --- mathematical modeling and carpentry --- when building software tests.
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Mr. Manuel Gonzalez (Hewlett-Packard) [USA]
Process Improvements Via Testing Results: A Case Study (3M2)
System Test Server through the WEB (6A2)

Currently, Manuel Gonzalez works as a software engineer at Hewlett-Packard. He is in charge of quality assurance programs for the software related with their DesignJet printers (Large Format Printers). Before he joined Hewlett-Packard, he worked in the aerospace company of the Spanish government (CASA) developing Computer Based Training systems. He also worked in the University of Murcia's R&D lab in object-oriented formal methods (actually he is writing his doctoral thesis about this topic). He has several articles published (national journals, and one accepted in The Computer Journal) and several papers presented in international and national conferences (TOOLS'96, IFIP'92...).
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Mr. Avi Harel (ErgoLight Ltd.) [ENGLAND]
Automation in Usability Validation (6S1)

Avi Harel received his B.Sc. (1970) and M.Sc. (1972) degrees in mathematics from the Technion, the Israeli Institute of Technology, in Haifa, Israel. For his M.Sc. degree he received an outstanding grade. For his master's thesis he was granted the Landau's award. Between the years 1985 and 1989 Avi studied Behavioral and Management Sciences at the faculty of Industrial Engineering of the Technion.

Between 1975-1992 Avi Harel worked for Rafael, the Armament Development Authority of Israel, during which he gained experience in working with a wide range of applications, platforms, operating systems, programming languages and development environments. Between 1977-1980 he was the manager of 30 people in the Software Department of Rafael's Division of Electronics. Between 1983-1985 Avi designed the software for a touch operated telephone set for the Design Interpretive department of BNR, Canada. Between 1985-1987 he developed a generator of user interfaces, for use by frequent users. Between 1988-1991 he conducted various projects in Human Factors engineering in Rafael.

From 1983, Avi Harel developed a methodology for developing user interfaces, based on human factors. After resigning from Rafael in 1992, he designed a user interface for the Haifa Scientific Center of IBM. Between 1993-1995 Avi designed the user documentation for two software companies. In 1996 Avi Harel founded ErgoLight Usability Software and initiated the design of the ErgoLight Validation Suite. He is currently the President & CEO of ErgoLight Usability Software.
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Mr. Hans-Ludwig Hausen (GMD Gesellschaft fur Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung mbH) [GERMANY]
Software Metrics for Procedures, Objects and Agents (TF)

Hans-Ludwig Hausen holds degrees on Electrical Engineering and on Computer Science from the technical University of Berlin and is currently a Senior Researcher at GMD German National Research Center for Information Technology. In the last 20 years he got experience as project manager, consultant and lecturer on CASE, Quality Engineering, Software Process Programming, and on Conformance Testing in national and international projects. Based on that experience he has written more than 60 publications on software engineering environments, software quality and productivity, process engineering and on CSCW for software projects. H. is a member of programme committees of IEEE and ACM special interests groups, a contributor to international standardization bodies, including ISO and IEEE, and an expert advisor to national and European government.
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Mr. Michael Heffler (Bellcore) [USA]
Providing a Context for Process Improvement and Assessment (7M1)

Michael Heffler has worked in management roles in technology companies, including Bell Laboratories and Digital Equipment Corporation, for over 15 years. Mr. Heffler has published several papers and received patents for his work in software development and has a Masters in Computer Science from University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has been a speaker at industry shows including UNIX Expo and the International Conference on System Sciences.
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Mr. Douglas Hoffman (Software Quality Methods) [USA]
A Taxonomy for Test Oracles (8Q)

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 five years he was Chairman of the Santa Clara Valley Software Quality Association (SSQA), a 750 member Task Group of the American Society for Quality (ASQ). 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 a member of the ACM and IEEE and is active in the ASQ as a Senior Member, participating in the Software Division, the Software Quality Task Group, and the ISO 9000 Task Group. He is an ASQ Certified Software Quality Engineer and has been a registered ISO 9000 Lead Auditor. He has earned an MBA as well as an MS in Electrical Engineering and BA in Computer Science.

His experience includes consulting, teaching, managing, and engineering in the computer and software industries. He has over fifteen years experience in creating and transforming software quality and development groups, and twenty years of management experience. His work in corporate, quality assurance, development, manufacturing, and support organizations makes him very well versed in technical and managerial issues in the computer industry. Doug has taught technical and managerial courses in high schools, universities, and corporations for over 25 years. In addition to his current teaching work, Doug has lectured in the Undergraduate and Graduate Engineering Schools at SJSU and is certificated to teach Computer and Related Technologies in the California State Community College System.
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Prof. William E. Howden (UCSD) [USA]
Software Confidence, Computational Integrity, and Statistical Model Checking (8T1)

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. Jon Huber (Hewlett-Packard) [USA]
Developing Metrics for a Software Testing Organization (9M1)

1996 - Present. Hewlett Packard, Boise, Idaho. Software Quality Engineer. Primary responsibilities include: - The coordination and management of the LaserJet Common Metrics, a group that provides Metrics Consulting and an automated Metrics Tool for over 20 current and past Hewlett Packard LaserJet products. - Boise site champion for Software Failure Analysis. Have worked closely with Bob Grady, author of three books on Software Metrics and Process Improvement, to facilitate and analyze results from four Software Failure Analysis workshops with four different Software Engineering Development teams.

1992-1996. Micron Technology, Boise, Idaho. Software Engineer. - Primary responsibilities included the development of an Object Oriented Semiconductor Manufacturing system.

1989-1992. IBM, Austin, Texas. Software Engineer. - Primary responsibilities included the development of an Object Oriented Supply Management Software system.
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Mr. David Carman, Mr. Siddhartha Dalal, Mr. Ashish Jain, Mr. Nachimuthu Karunanithi & Mr. Robert Farrell (Bellcore) [USA]
A Test Generation Factory for Year 2000 Testing (9A1)

David W. Carman is a senior Quality Assurance Engineer at Bellcore. He has eight years of quality assurance experience, tesitng telecommunications network and operations support systems. He has in depth expertise in the areas of automatic test generation, test automation, test coverage and software reliability engineering. He received his MS in Computer Science in 1991.
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Siddhartha R. Dalal is the Executive Director of Information Analysis and Services Department and is a Chief Scientist in the Information Sciences & Technologies Research Lab at Bellcore. Besides initiating and leading the research on AETG system and Year2000TGF, Sid has led several research application projects in software testing and software engineering. He has an MBA and a PhD from University of Rochester. He started his industrial research career in Bell Labs at Murray Hill. He is a fellow of American Statistical Association. He was a member of a National Academy of Sciences panel which produced an NRC report on Software Engineering. He has published extensively and has given a presentation in past at a STAR conference.
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Ashish Jain is a Research Scientist in Information and Computer Science Research at Bellcore. He has done extensive research in the area of Declarative Programming and Specification Languages and Automated Testing. His other interests are Distributed Computing and Logic Programming. He received his B. Tech in Computer Engineering and Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He received his M.S. (1991) and Ph.D (1995) in Computer Science from Case Western Reserve University.
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Nachimuthu Karunanithi is a Research Scientist in Information Sciences & Technologies Research Lab at Bellcore. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Colorado State University in 1992. His research interests are software reliability, tools for software testing, neural networks, genetic algorithms, and information filtering and user interface.

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Ms. Alka Jarvis () [USA]
Applying Software Inspections - Real-Life Experience at Cisco Systems (9S1)

Alka Jarvis is the Software Quality Manager for WANBU of Cisco. She is the winner of 1997 Silicon Valley's "Corporate Woman Advocate of the Year" award for her accomplishments in the software quality field and her effectiveness in improving the environment for women in the workforce. She is a Certified Quality Systems, ISO 9000 Lead Auditor (RAB) and also a Certified Quality Analyst and has 19 years of experience in software development and quality, 8 of which have been in Total Quality Mangement. She is an instructor at UC Berkeley, ext. and UC Santa Cruz, ext. in the field of Software Quality and Total Quality Management and an adjunct Professor at Santa Clara University in the MBA program for Computer Science. Alka has co-authored two books "ISO 9000-3" published by Springer-Verlag and "Inroads to Software Quality" published by Prentice Hall in Spring, 1997. A sought after speaker, she has been a frequent speaker on quality related issues at International as well as domestic events.

Ms. Jarvis is the President of the Bay Area Quality Assurance Association (BAQAA), an Applied Total Quality Advisory Board Member for University of California - Berkeley - Extension, an Advisory Board Member to the Certificate Program in Continuous Improvement & Quality Management - UC Santa Cruz Extension and Board of Directors for the Indian Women and Professional Women organization.
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Mr. Ieuan E. Jones (Royal Military College of Science Shrivenham) [ENGLAND]
Application of Quality Practices to Web-Site Development (4S1)

Ieuan Jones is a Lecturer in Software Quality Management at the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, UK, where he had taught for almost 10 years. Prior to entering teaching, he worked with the UK MoD's Quality Assurance Directorate in the field of Software Quality Assurance, during which time he was registered as a Lead Assessor for ISO 9001 assessments. He is a member of a British Standards Institution Technical Panel on Software Reliability and is a member of the American Society for Quality. Ieuan holds a BSc in Applied Science and an MPhil, awarded for his research into modelling Quality Management Systems. His research interests lie in the application of Quality Management Processes to new and emerging fields, such as the Internet.
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Mr. Oliver Jones (Rational Software Corporation) [USA]
System Testing for Java-based Internet Applications: How, When and Why? (3S1)

Oliver Jones is Director of Internet Products for Rational Software's Automated Software Quality Business line. Prior to joining Rational, Jones was Chief of Technology Officer for Vivo Software, Inc., and held senior product development positions at PictureTel, Centerline Software, Apollo Computer, Inc., and Digital Equipment Corporation. Jones was the author of Introduction to the X Window System, Prentice-Hall, 1988, and has been involved in software product development for more than 20 years.
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Dr. Cem Kaner (Attorney at Law) [USA]
Year 2000, How Can I Sue Thee? Oh, Let Me Count the Ways (1P2)
Concise Test Planning (9Q)

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. Zachi Karni, Mr. Shmuel Ur & Mr. Dror Orell (IBM, Haifa Research Lab) [ISRAEL]
Using 3D to Visualize Dynamic Path Coverage (4T2)

Zachi Karni is a software engineer at Elbit Systems LTD. in Haifa, Israel. He completed his B.Sc in Computer Science (1997) and B.Sc in Mechanical Engineering (1996) at the Technion in Haifa. Hs main areas of work at Elbit are Computer Graphics and 3D visualization for training and simulation systems.

Shmuel Ur is a research scientist in IBM research lab in Haifa. He works in the field of testing (software and hardware) and concentrates on coverage. Shmuel also teaches a course on software testing in the CS department in the Technion.

Shmuel received his Ph.D. in Algorithms Optimization and Combinatorics in 1994 in Carnegie Mellon University. Shmuel received his Bs.C. and Ms.C. from the Technion in Israel.

Shmuel has published in the fields of artificial intelligence, algorithms and testings and hold a number of patents.

Dror Orell is a researcher in IBM research laboratory in Haifa. He has finished his B.Sc in Computer Science (1997) and B.Sc in Mechanical Engineering (1996) at the Technion in Haifa. He works at HRL in the field of 3D visualization.
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Mr. Richard Kasperowski (Altisimo Computing) [USA]
Automated Testing and Java Class Libraries (9T1)

Richard Kasperowski is President of Altisimo Computing, a software development consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At various times during his career, Mr. Kasperowski has been a Quality Assurance Software Engineer, manager of a Quality Assurance department, and a Senior Software Engineer. Mr. Kasperowski holds an ALB from Harvard University.
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Dr. Kathleen A. Kegley (NIST) [USA]
Applications of Formal Specification Languages in Conformance Testing (8A1)

Kathy Kegley is a consultant with Meerkat Computing. She was previously co-director of the Software Standards and Technology Laboratory and a faculty member at Clemson University. Dr. Kegley recently participated in the development of the Clemson Automated Testing System (CATS) and the application of this system to a full-scale test suite for IEEE Std. 1003.5 - the Ada Binding o POSIX. She has also contributed to the projects sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the U.S. Navy, the department of Defense and sun Microsystems laboratories. Her areas of interest include formal specification languages, requirements definition and requirements based testing.
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Ms. Karen S. King (Sequent Computer Systems) [USA]
Ensuring Quality in Software Suppliers (4M2)

Karen King is the Software Supplier Quality Engineer at Sequent Computer Systems in Beaverton, Oregon. She works with suppliers to define software processes, measure resulting software quality, and work towards quality improvement. She received her BS in Electrical Engineering, BA in Math Science, and BA in Math from Rice University, and has over ten years experience in software and hardware quality.
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Mr. Ed Kit (Software Development Technologies) [USA]
Automating Software Testing and Reviews (TG)

Edward Kit is the founder and president of Software Development Technologies, an international consulting firm which has assisted hundreds of companies improve their software testing and automation practices. His recent book, Software Testing in the Real World...improving the process, has been adopted as the standard by leading software and commercial companies. SDT's services are delivered around the world to clients including: Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Lucent Technologies, Nokia, Philips, Cadence Design Systems, Kredietbank, Xerox and Adobe Systems.
sdt@sdtcorp.com
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Mr. Martin Klaus (Take Five Software) [USA]
Beyond Testing: How to Fix Year 2000 Critical Code (8S1)

Martin Klaus is a technical consultant at TakeFive Software. He is responsible for training customers and implementing TakeFive's IDE, SNiFF+, successfully into their development tools environment. He is also involved in numerous technical consulting projects for customers with large amounts of source code. During his career at TakeFive Software, Martin has worked on multi-national projects in Europe as well as in the United States.

Martin holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Linz, Austria.
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Dr. Peter Liggesmeyer (Siemens AG) [GERMANY]
Going Beyond Correctness: Improving Software Robustness (3A1)

Dr. Liggesmeyer is a Project Manager at Siemens Corporate Technology in Munich, Germany. His research interests include safety and reliability analysis techniques for technical systems and quality assurance of embedded software. Dr. Liggesmeyer received the diploma in Electrical Engineering from the University of Paderborn in 1988. Prior to joining Siemens in 1993, he was a research assistant at the University of Bochum, Germany, where he completed his doctorate in Electrical Engineering in 1992. He received the 1993 software engineering award of the Gesellschaft fur Informatik for his dissertation on software testing. Dr. Liggesmeyer is the author and editor of four books about software testing, analysis, and verification. Since several years, he is also a lecturer for software quality assurance at the University of Bochum.
(peter.liggesmeyer@mchp.siemens.de)
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Mr. Leslie Allen Little (Aztek Engineering) [USA]
Why Johnny Can't Read or Write Requirements (STAND-BY)

Leslie Allen Little is the senior Quality Assurance Engineer at Aztek Engineering. He manages a quality assurance group whose primary responsibility is system testing for a large PBX project. His primary areas of expertise are Requirements, Quality Assurance, System Testing, Telecommunications, Software Development and RDBMS.

Mr. Little holds an AAS in Computer Science, a double major (BSBA) in Philosophy and Computer Information Systems from the University of Southern Colorado and a MS in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has previously published several articles in the System Testing, Quality Assurance and Requirements arenas.

Mr. Little has worked in the Software Development/Quality Assurance areas for 13 years; 8 years as Member of Technical Staff with AT&T Bell Laboratories (now Lucent), and 5 years as a software Quality Assurance Engineer with Aztek Engineering.
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Dr. Michael R. Lyu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) [HONG KONG]
Current Techniques and Tools for Software Reliability Engineering (TB)
A Phase-Based Approach to Integrate Reliable Software (STAND-BY)

Dr. Michael R. Lyu is currently an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) at the Computer Science and Engineering department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a Technical Staff Member from 1988 to 1990. From 1990 1992 he was with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Iowa as an Assistant Professor. From 1992 to 1995, he was a Member of the Technical Staff in the Applied Research Area of the Bell Communications Research (Bellcore). From 1995 to 1997 he was a research Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Labs, which was first part of AT&T and later became part of Lucent Technologies.

Dr. Lyu's research interests include software reliability and engineering, software process and metrics, distributed systems, and fault-tolerant computing. He has published over 60 refereed journal and conference papers in these areas. He initiated the first International Symposium on Software Reliability (ISSRE) in 1990. He was the program chair for the ISSRE'96, and has served in program committees for many conferences. He is the editor for two book volumes: Software Fault Tolerance, published by Wiley in 1995 and the Handbook of Software Reliability Engineering, published by IEEE and McGraw-Hill in 1996. He is an associated editor of IEEE Transactions on Reliability and a guest editor for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
( Click Here for Michael Lyu's Home Page)
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Mr. Brian Marick (Testing Foundations) [USA]
When Should a Test Be Automated (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).
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Prof. W. Douglas Maurer (George Washington University) [USA]
Program Correctness and the Year 2000 Problem (2M1)

Ward Douglas Maurer has been a professor of engineering and applied science at George Washington University for over twenty years. He attended undergraduate school at the University of Chicago and graduate school at Berkeley, majoring in mathematics. Prof. Maurer is no stranger to quality conferences, having written a paper with his son Steven Maurer for QC 95. His major specialty is program correctness - proving mathematically that a program does what it was intended to do.
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Dr. Edward Miller (Software Research, Inc.) [USA]
The WebSite Quality Challenge/Web (4S2)

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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Mr. Stefan Mohacsi (SIEMENS/University of Linz) [AUSTRIA]
An Open Tool for Automated Testing of Interactive Software (9S2)

Dipl.Ing. Stefan MOHACSI finished his studies of computer science at the Technical University in Vienna/Austria in 1996 as `Diplom-Ingenieur' (MBA). AFter finishing his thesis about task-oriented design techniques and automated code generation he was employed at Siemens PSE as designer and technical manager of the IDATG research project.
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Ms. Cheryl Y. Moore (FedEx Corporation) [USA]
Testing Policies and Standards (3M1)

Cheryl Y. Moore is a software engineering professional with over twenty years of experience in various diverse and challenging positions. Cheryl is currently employed by FedEx Corporation as a Program Management Advisor in Global Invoicing Support and is a recent recipient of the company's FIVE STAR AWARD for FY97. Her professional experience includes: Cheryl's career objectives are to continually utilize, expand and improve leadership skills and to progress professionally by maintaining high standards of expertise to gain respect and confidence of superiors, customers and peers.
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Mr. John D. Musa (Independent Consultant) [USA]
More Reliable, Faster, Cheaper Testing through Software Reliability Engineering (TC)

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 100 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.
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(j.musa@ieee.org)
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Ms. Anna Newman (Adobe Systems, Inc.) [USA]
Lessons Learned: Automating Testing Experiences with FrameMaker 5.5 (7A2)

A Mills College graduate with a degree in Linguistics and CS, Anna Newman has spent the last 9 years in the computer industry, focusing on Quality Assurance and occasionally teaching courses on UNIX. While at Adobe, she has worked on FrameMaker+SGML since the product's inception, first as a QA Engineer, and then as a QA Manager and Project Manager. Designer and implementer of a cross-platform test strategy to cover a 7 platform simultaneous release in version 4.0. Anna has since worked along with the members of the Frame Engineering Group to extend this strategy and automated it. She also is involved in the ISO 9000 effort at Adobe and is responsible for Japanese and other language localization testing. In 1996, Anna was a speaker at the STAR '96 Conference.
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Ms. Patricia O'Reilly (InPower) [USA]
The Accidental Improvement Opportunity is Knocking... (7M2)

Patricia O'Reilly is InPower's official Change Agent, charged with discovering, documenting, and communicating "better" ways of doing business within InPower. In this role she assists teams and departments in assessing their quality and productivity and in constructing effective improvement programs. She has had a multi-faceted career that includes software testing, process reengineering, and championing quality and process oriented efforts.
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Dr. Thomas Ostrand (Siemens Corporate Research) [USA]
A Visual Test Development Environment for GUI Systems (3T1)

Dr. Thomas Ostrand is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Siemens Corporate Research. He is currently working on the design of test development environments for GUI-based software systems. He has worked in various aspects of software testing, including theory of testing, test generation algorithms, and dataflow-based coverage analysis. Dr. Ostrand is a Member of the Executive Committee of ACM SIGSOFT, and has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. He has also served as the Program Chair of the ACM Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis.
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Dr. Dave Parnas (Communications Research Laboratory, McMaster University) [USA]
Software Engineering: An Unconsummated Marriage (5P2)

David Lorge Parnas is a Professor in the McMaster University Faculty of Engineering's Computing and Software Department where he is Director of the Software Engineering Programme. He is also an associate member of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

He has been Professor at the University of Victoria, the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Maryland.

He has also held non-academic positions advising Philips Computer Industry (Apeldoorn), the United States Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. and the IBM Federal Systems Division. At NRL, he instigated the Software Cost Reduction (A-7) Project, which develops and applies software technology to aircraft weapon systems. He has advised the Atomic Energy Control Board of Canada on the use of safety- critical real-time software at the Darlington Nuclear Generation Station.

The author of more than 190 papers and reports, Dr. Parnas is interested in most aspects of computer system design.

In his teaching, as well as in his research, Dr. Parnas seeks to find a "middle road" between theory and practice, emphasising theory that can be applied to improve the quality of our products.

Professor Parnas received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and honorary doctorates from the ETH in Zurich and the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium.

Dr. Parnas won an ACM "Best Paper" Award in 1979, and two "Most Influential Paper" awards from the International Conference on Software Engineering. He is the 1998 winner of ACM SIGSOFT's "Outstanding Research Award".

Dr. Parnas is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He is licensed as a Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario.
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Dr. Roman Pitschinetz (Daimler-Benz AG) [GERMANY]
Integrated Test Management within the Tool Environment Tessy (6T2)

Roman Pitschinetz (born in 1957) studied biology at Free University of Berlin (1984) and computer science at the University of Applied Science and Technology Berlin (1987). In 1987 he took on a post as a scientist in the Correct Systems Group of the System Technology Research Center of the Daimler-Benz AG. There he has worked on systematic software test methods and tools.
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Mr. Martin Pol (IQUIP Informatica B.V.) [NETHERLANDS]
Test Process Improvement (TJ)

Martin Pol, with more than 25 years experience in the information business, has worked at IQUIP Informatica since 1991, within the dedicated testing unit TMap (tm) Consultancy with more than 250 specialized testers. Since 1997 Martin Pol's services are also available in Belgium. With exceptional insight and experience in practical testing issues, Martin is a highly regarded presenter at conferences and training sessions throughout Europe and in the USA. He was involved in the development of the structured testing approach, TMap (tm). Under his management, TMap (tm) became the Dutch testing standard. Now the approach is used in more than 200 companies in the Benelux and other parts of Europe. Martin Pol is the co-author of two (Dutch) books on TMap (tm). The book "Test Process Improvement, a Way to Stepwise Improvement of Testing" will be published in April 1998. (Authors: Martin Pol and Tim Koomen). There are plans (and interested publishers) for an English version.

Martin Pol was Programme Chair of the EuroSTAR conference in 1996 and 1997 and is chairman of the Dutch Special Interest Group in Software Testing, TestNet.
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Mr. Robert Poston (AONIX, Inc.) [USA]
Making Test Cases from Use Cases Automatically (7Q)

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. Mike Powers (ST Labs, Inc.) [USA]
Testing in a Year 2000 Project (7S2)

As the Year 2000 testing specialist at ST Labs, Mike Powers works with clients to solve their Y2K challenges. Previously, he held consulting and technical roles for companies such as Aldus and Microsoft. He taught at the Naval Postgraduate School and Oregon State University, and has a PhD in Computer, Information and Control Engineering.
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Mr. Anil Rao (Hewlett-Packard Company) [USA]
A Structured Framework for Designing Kernel Reliability Tests (3T2)

Anil Rao is a software design engineer at Hewlett Packard's Open Systems Laboratory in Cupertino, CA. As a member of the HP-UX kernel development team, he is currently involved in research and development activities in the areas of Process Management and Virtual Memory. He received a Bachelor's of Technology in computer engineering in 1992 from the Karnataka Regional Engineering College, India and a Master of Science in computer science and engineering in 1995, from the University of Connecticut. His research interests include operating systems, distributed computing and performance analysis. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society.
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Dr. Jarrett Rosenberg (Sun Microsystems) [USA]
Static Checking of Application Binaries for Cross-Release Stability (6T1)

Jarrett Rosenberg is a statistician and quality engineer at Sun Microsystems. He received his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley, and worked at Xerox and Hewlett-Packard before joining Sun in 1990. He is an ASQC Certified Quality Engineer and Reliability Engineer.
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Dr. Linda Rosenberg (Unisys/SATC CSFC NASA) [USA]
Metrics for Quality Assurance and Risk Assessment (TA)
Testing Metrics for Requirement Quality (2T2)

Dr. Linda H. Rosenberg is an Engineering Section Head at Unisys Government Systems in Lanham, MD. She is contracted to manage the Software Assurance Technology Center (SATC) through the System Reliability and Safety Office in the Flight Assurance Division at Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, in Greenbelt, MD. The SATC has four primary responsibilities: Metrics, Standards and Guidance, Assurance Tools and Techniques, and Project Support & Outreach programs. Although she oversees all work areas of the SATC, Dr. Rosenberg's area of expertise is metrics. She is responsible for overseeing metric programs to establish a basis for numerical guidelines and standards for software developed at NASA, to investigate the role of metrics in risk assessment and management of software projects, and to work with project managers to use metrics in the evaluation of the quality of their software. As part of the SATC outreach program, Dr. Rosenberg has presented metrics/quality assurance tutorials at GSFC, and IEEE and ACM conferences.

Immediately prior to this assignment, Dr. Rosenberg was an Assistant Professor in the Mathematics/Computer Science Department at Goucher College in Towson, MD. Her responsibilities included the development of upper level computer science courses in accordance with the recommendations of the ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Curriculum Task Force, and the advisor for computer science majors.

Dr. Rosenberg's work has encompassed many areas of Software Engineering. In addition to metrics, she has worked in the areas of hypertext, specification languages, and user interfaces. Dr. Rosenberg holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, an M.E.S. in Computer Science from Loyola College, and a B.S. in Mathematics from Towson State University. She is a member of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the IEEE Computer Society, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and Upsilon Pi Epsilon.
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Ms. Johanna Rothman () [USA]
The Role of the Test Manager (4P)

Johanna Rothman is a speaker, trainer, and consultant on high technology and quality management. She works with organizations to improve their product development practices to increase productivity and quality. She has over twenty years experience in the software engineering and software management profession. For the past five years, Johanna has specifically worked with her clients to determine the most time- and cost-effective ways to help people make their product development efforts more successful.

Ms. Rothman has a BS in Computer Science and a BA in English Literature from the University of Vermont. She has an MS in Systems (Software) Engineering from Boston University. She is also an ASQC Certified Quality Auditor and Certified Software Quality Engineer.
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Mr. Andreas Rudolf (IBM) [AUSTRIA]
Testing the Software Portfolio of a Bank for Year 2000 Readiness (6M1)

Andreas Rudolf is a consultant with IBM Application Development Effectiveness Practice. He specializes in test concepts and strategies to improve software quality. Mr. Rudolf has over 10 years experience in workflow application development and testing. He has worked in a variety of industries, including telecommunication, banking, and insurance. Mr. Rudolf has written a concept for testing the whole software portfolio for a large bank, for year 2000 compliance. He built up and lead a team of 20 people dedicated to this project. Mr. Rudolf was author of the IBM red book "Cooperative processing in an object oriented environment" and was speaker at the "International Workflow Conference" in Vienna where he presented the topic "Workflow meets cyberspace". Mr. Rudolf attended the School of Engineering in Moedling, Austria, where he earned a bachelors degree in Telecommunication and Electronics.
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Mr. Raymond V. Sandfoss & Mr. Steven A. Meyer (AT&T Laboratories) [USA]
The Impact of OOT, Client/Server, and Distributed Computing on SRE Practices (3A2)

Raymond Sandfoss has been with AT&T for 14 years. He is currently a Software Reliability Engineering (SRE) Consultant for the Operations Technology Center, and has developed numerous Operational Profiles. In addition, he has given numerous talks on SRE and its usage for large systems. He is a member of a team that performs SRE Jumpstarts for projects within the OTC. He has co-authored numerous talks on SRE and presented at various conferences, including International conferences. His experience includes x.25 protocol ( definition, testing, and certification ), communications software development, project management, large project development, system architecture, and system reliability.

He is familiar with large project management, software development, and system testing. In addition, he is a consultant for the OTC in defining the Reliability Objectives and Operational Profiles for overall customer Solutions which span both internally and externally developed systems. Currently, he is working with several projects within the OTC in developing Operational Profiles and setting up for Load and Performance testing. He has a Bachelors degree in both Mathematics and Philosophy. His emphasis is in Statistics.

Steven Meyer has 14 years experience with AT&T. Most of it in applications development for AT&T facility and circuit provisioning systems and AT&T Global Network Signalling Systems. Steve's skill set includes traditional and object oriented approaches. He has worked on UNIX, PC and Mainframe applications using C, C++, ksh, awk, SQL, COBOL, Assembler, html and perl ... multi-lingual. Steve has expertise in communications interfaces including BX.25 and TCP/IP. He has filled roles of Project Manager, Software Designer, Architect, Software Design Implementor and Test Planning, Design and Execution.

Steve currently supports Software Reliability Engineering practices, Configuration Management and Software Testing Tools technologies for the Operations Technology Center. He has contributed to and presented several talks on SRE, Testing and Configuration Management at various AT&T internal and industry conferences. Steve develops and delivers educational training and consultation on SRE to projects within AT&T.

Steve has Bachelors degrees in Business Administration and Information Processing.
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Ms. Carla Schroer (Sun Microsystems) [USA]
Java(tm) Platform Compatibility Testing (9T2)

Carla Schroer is a Sr. Engineering Manager responsible for Java Platform Compatibility Testing at Sun Microsystem's JavaSoft division. Carla has been responsible for managing the development of the compatibility test suites and test tools since the inception of the "Java Compatible(TM)" program in the summer of 1995. The "Java Compatible" testing program is designed to ensure that all Java platform licensees create compatible versions of the Java technology in their products.

Carla has 10 years experience in the software industry, including 8 years as a testing and quality assurance manager.

Carla holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from New College of the University of South Florida with a concentration in Computer Studies.
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Mr. Jeff Singer (Ensemble Partners, Inc.) [USA]
The Software End Game - Accurate Prediction of Time Product Completion (9M2)

Mr. Singer has more than 30 years experience in the software industry both as a researcher and as a technical and executive manager. He has been a software engineering manager for a number of commercial product development efforts ranging from operating systems to large-scale CAD application products. While at Digital Equipment Corporation, he was involved in the design and application of rigorous software engineering processes for system software development. He has served as a consultant to commercial organizations seeking to improve their product development practices since 1991. He is a member of the adjunct faculty at the University of Massachusetts Lowell where he teaches courses in Software Engineering.
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Mr. Lincoln Spector (Computer Journalist, Columnist, Humorist) [USA]
Why Are Computers So Damned Funny? (8M1)

Lincoln Spector was introduced to the computer industry in 1983, when he bought his first computer, an Osborne 1, and within weeks watched it drop in value from $1500 to $200. After that experience, there was no option left but to become a humorist.

Gigglebytes made its debut in the August 12, 1986 issue of Northern California Computer Currents. The column now appears in 13 publications in 4 countries. Lincoln is also a Contributing Editor for PC World, where he writes the Answer Line column.

Lincoln Spector is the author's real name, appearing on his birth certificate and driver's license. He spent his youth going to movies and performing in amateur theatrics, and has been trying to return to that lifestyle ever since.

When he isn't writing, Lincoln spends most of his time looking for affordable health care.
(Click Here for Lincoln Spector's Home Page)
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Mr. Keith Stobie (BEA Systems, Inc.) [USA]
TestWare Engineering (9A2)

Keith Stobie is Quality Assurance and Test Architect at BEA Systems, Inc. Keith directs QA and Test process and strategy. He plans and designs tests for BEA's Object-Oriented Transaction Processing Manager. Previously, Keith was Test Architect at Informix designing tests for the Extended Parallel Server product and Manager of Quality and Process Improvement. Keith held many QA and test roles at Tandem Computers. With over 18 years in the field, Keith is a leader in testing methodology, tools technology, and quality process. He is a qualified instructor in Systematic Software Testing and in software inspections. Keith is active in the software task group of of ASQ, participant in IEEE 2003 and 2003.2 standards on test methods, published several articles and presented at many quality and testing conferences. Keith is an ASQ Certified Software Quality Engineer with a BS from Cornell University.
(kstobie@acm.org)
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Dr. Ondrej Such (Microsoft Corporation) [USA]
Applications of Stochastic Asynchronous Programming Technique to Procedure Testing (4A2)

Ondrej Such received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University, where he researched number theory, algebraic geometry and differential equations. He is currently developing an object oriented asynchronous testing framework at Microsoft Corporation.
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Dr. Pascale Thevenod-Fosse & Dr. Helene Waeselynck (LAAS - CNRS) [FRANCE]
Software Statistical Testing Based on Structural and Functional Criteria (7T1)

Pascale Thevenod-Fosse received the Informatic and Applied Mathematics Engineer degree from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (France) in 1975; she received the Doctor in Engineering degree and the Doctor es-Sciences degree in Computer Science from the University of Grenoble in 1978 and 1983, respectively. Dr. Thevenod is currently a "Directeur de Recherche" at CNRS. From 1975 up to 1986, she has been working on random testing of hardware at the Laboratory of Automation of Grenoble. From January 1987, she has joined LAAS to work within the research group on Fault Tolerance and Dependable Computing. Her research focuses now on software validation using a statistical testing approach. She has written over sixty papers for international and national journals and conferences, is co-author of one book on dependable computing. She has been major investigator or contributor to national and European contracts, and has acted as a consultant in the area of testing for industrial organizations.
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Helene Waeselynck received the Certified Engineer degree from the National Institute of applied Sciences of Toulouse, in 1989, and the phD in computer science from the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, in January 1993. Her doctoral thesis was focused on the statistical testing of safety-critical software. Then she spent six months as a guest researcher at the Corporate Research and Development of Siemens AG, Munich, Germany, working on the simulation of software development processes. After that, Dr. Waeselynck had a position at the French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research (INRETS), where she was involved in the validation and certification of railway systems. In 1996, she joined the Dependable Computing and Fault-Tolerance group at LAAS-CNRC. Her research interests concern software verification, including both testing and formal methods.
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Mr. Otto Vinter (Bruel & Kjaer) [DENMARK]
Improved Requirements Engineering Based on Defect Analysis (2A1)

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.
(Click Here for Otto Vinter's Home Page)
(ovinter@bk.dk)
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Ms. Anneliese von Mayrhauser (Colorado State University) [USA]
Fast Antirandom (FAR) Test Generation to Improve Code Coverage (4T1)

Anneliese von Mayrhauser is a Professor at CSU in Computer Science. She is also Director of a Technology Transfer Research Institute (CASI). CASI supports industry-university collaborations. Her work has been in software testing and maintenance.
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Mr. William H. Warren (Independent Consultant) [USA]
The Business Cost of Defective Software (4M1)

Bill Warren has been involved in the telecommunications and computer software and hardware marketplace for over 30 years.

Mr. Warren is the President of William H. Warren Consulting Services, Inc. Mr. Warren provides consulting and contracting services regarding software marketing, development, testing, and quality assurance projects with firms in the Northern California area.

Mr. Warren has served as a Director and Officer at a number of successful start-up and medium sized computer system companies in the Silicon Valley, where he was responsible for sales, product marketing, development, test, release, and customer support organizations.

Mr. Warren has his BA and MBA from Stanford University.
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Dr. Elaine J. Weyuker (AT&T Laboratories) [USA]
Facilitating the Enforcement of Quality of Service Objectives by Using Software Testing Artifacts (7T2)

Elaine Weyuker received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rutgers University, and an M.S.E. from the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania. She is currently a principal technical staff member at AT&T Labs at Florham Park, NJ. Before moving for AT&T Labs in 1993, she was a professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University, NY, where she had been on the faculty since 1977.

Her research interests are in software engineering, particularly software testing and reliability, and software metrics, and has published many papers in those areas. She is also interested in the theory of computation, and is the author of a book (with Martin Davis and Ron Sigal), "Computability, Complexity, and Languages, 2nd Ed", published by Academic Press.

She is an ACM Fellow and a senior member of the IEEE, and is a member of the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), the Empirical Software Engineering Journal, and an Advisory Editor of the Journal of Systems and Software. She has been the Secretary/Treasurer of ACM SIGSOFT and was an ACM National Lecturer.
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Dr. Karl E. Wiegers (Process Impact) [USA]
Software Process Improvement: Ten Traps to Avoid (8M2)

Dr. Karl E. Wiegers is Principal Consultant with Process Impact in Rochester, New York. Previously, he spent 18 years at Eastman Kodak Company, including experience as a photographic research scientist, software developer, software manager, and software process and quality improvement leader. Karl holds a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Illinois. He is a member of the IEEE, the IEE Computer Society, ASQ, and the ACM. Karl is the author of the award-winning book "Creating a Software Engineering Culture" (Dorset House, 1996), as well as over 100 articles on many aspects of computing, chemistry, and military history.
( Click Here for Karl Wieger's Home Page)
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