11th International Software Quality Week: Program Highlights

11th INTERNATIONAL
SOFTWARE QUALITY WEEK
(QW'98)

26-29 May 1998, San Francisco, California USA

PREVIEW AND HIGHLIGHTS

80 Presentations! Here are some Highlights from the Complete Technical Program for QW'98.

Ten 1/2-day Tutorials
Six Keynote Speakers
Seven Quick-Start Tutorials Panel Session on Test Managers
56 Regular Papers
Five Parallel Tracks A Two-Day Tools Expo
Birds-Of-A-Feather Sessions
...and more!

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Prof. Dave Parnas (McMaster University) Software Engineering: An Unconsummated Marriage
Dr. Boris Beizer (Independent Consultant) Prioritizing Your Y2K Testing Effort: Debunking the Special Date Myths
Dr. Cem Kaner (Attorney at Law) Year 2000, How Can I Sue Thee? Oh, Let Me Count the Ways
Mr. Robert V. Binder (RBSC Corporation) Testing Object-Oriented Systems: Best Practices
Mr. Dave Duchesneau (Boeing Commercial Airplane Group) Design for Test (Or, How to Make it Hard for the Pernicious Bugs to Hide)
Mr. Robert L. Glass (Computing Trends) The Software Crisis - Is it for Real?

TUTORIAL SPEAKERS

Dr. Boris Beizer (Independent Consultant) An Overview of Testing -- Unit, Integration, System -- Outline and Index
Mr. Robert V. Binder (RBSC Corporation) Testing Strategies for Object-Oriented Systems
Mr. Michael Deck (Cleanroom Software Engineering, Inc.) How Testers Can Use Formal Methods to Analyze and Improve Software Requirements Specifications
Mr. Tom Gilb (Independent Consultant) Evolutionary Delivery Project Management
Mr. Hans-Ludwig Hausen (GMD German National Research Center for Information Technology) Software Metrics for Procedures, Objects and Agents
Mr. Ed Kit (Software Development Technologies) Automating Software Testing and Reviews
Dr. Michael R. Lyu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Current Techniques and Tools for Software Reliability Engineering
Mr. John D. Musa (Independent Consultant) More Reliable, Faster, Cheaper Testing through Software Reliability Engineering
Mr. Martin Pol (IQUIP Informatica B.V.) Test Process Improvement
Dr. Linda Rosenberg & Mr. Larry Hyatt (Unisys/SATC GSFC NASA) Metrics for Quality Assurance and Risk Assessment

QUICK-START MINI-TUTORIALS

Mr. Larry Bernstein (National Software Council) Trustworthy Software
Mr. Thomas A. Drake (Booz Allen & Hamilton, Inc.) Is Quality Really "Good Enough" for the Millennium?
Mr. Tom Gilb (Independent Consultant) The Alternatives and Supplements to Conventional Testing
Mr. Douglas Hoffman (Software Quality Methods) A Taxonomy for Test Oracles
Dr. Cem Kaner (Attorney at Law) Concise Test Planning
Mr. Brian Marick (Testing Foundations) When Should a Test Be Automated?
Mr. Robert Poston (AONIX, Inc.) Making Test Cases from Use Cases Automatically

SPECIAL PANEL SESSION

The Role of The Test Manager, chaired by Joanna Rothman and Brian Lawrence

SPECIAL BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER SESSIONS

Special Birds-Of-A-Feather sessions, organized by industry gurus Danny Faught and Brian Marick, feature ten different initial discussion topics for meetings scheduled for the conference lunch hours and later.

REGULAR PAPERS

Over 40 regular papers and presentations in parallel tracks on such important software quality topics as:

Business Aspects
Coverage
Criteria-Based Methods
Customer Satisfaction
Defect Analysis
Defect Tracking GUI Testing
Java
Metrics Feedback
Process Improvement
Real-World Experiences
Real-World Futures Requirements Testing
Reliability
Specifications
Statistical Methods
Test Automation
TestWare Web Testing
Test Environments
Test Processes
Y2K Readiness
Y2K Testing
Y2K/Euro Impacts

80 Presentations! Here are some Highlights from the Complete Technical Program for QW'98.
Ten 1/2-day Tutorials Six Keynote Speakers Seven Quick-Start Tutorials	Panel Session on Test Managers 56 Regular Papers Five Parallel Tracks	A Two-Day Tools Expo Birds-Of-A-Feather Sessions ...and more!