12th INTERNATIONAL SOFTWARE QUALITY WEEK (QW'99) 24-28 May 1998, San Jose / Silicon Valley, California USA SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

The 12th 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'99 is the strongest ever assembled. Updated 2 May 1999.

Dr. Frank Ackerman & Ms. Cherie McKinney (Institute for Zero Defect Software / Adobe Systems) [USA]
Measuring Fault Density in the Real World (2A2)

Frank Ackerman is currently implementing the recently proposed concept of Quality Graded Software Components at a Bay Area embedded systems engineering firm. Quality graded component development benefits all stakeholders in software quality and provides a method for managing quality by individual developer to minimize the enterprise software quality cost/benefit ratio.

Frank has more than thirty years of software engineering experience with Johns Hopkins University, Control Data Corporation, AT&T Bell Laboratories and the Institute For Zero Defect Software. He is personally committed to advancing the state- of-practice of software engineering worldwide. He has held various positions in the IEEE software engineering standards effort: He was the founding chair of the IEEE Software Reliability Engineering Committee, and is currently leading the IEEE/CS Study Group for Quality Graded Software Component Source Code Packages. The main theme in his professional life is the passionate pursuit of the ideal of a software engineering profession that can deliver optimum quality, on schedule, and at minimal cost.
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Mr. Christopher Agruss (Autodesk, Inc.) [USA]
Automating Software Installation Testing (4T2)

Chris has tested commercial software since 1984, with a focus on test automation since 1993. His role has ranged from designing and developing test code libraries to that of managing teams dedicated to developing automated test suites. He's currently the Automation Architect for Advanced Business Solutions at Autodesk, where he manages a team of expert testers.
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Dr. Selim Aissi & Ms. Wendi Hummel (Applied Dynamics International) [USA]
Automating Syntax Testing: The Case of a Real-Time Simulation Tool (2T1)

Dr. Selim Aissi holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan and has extensive experience in the development of safety-critical embedded systems in the R&D, military and automative environments. Dr. Aissi worked at the University of Michigan, General Dynamics Land Systems, and General Motors Power Train. He is currently managing the Systems Quality Assurance Group at Applied Dynamics International.

Wendi Hummel has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University. She is currently working for Applied Dynamics International in Ann Arbor, Michigan as a Systems Quality Assurance Engineer where she works with a Real-Time Simulation system. Previously she worked for Xycom, Inc in Saline, Michigan as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer where she tested software for industrial PC's.
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Mr. Mark D. Anderson (Discerning Software Corporation) [USA]
Client/Server Load Testing (9B1)

Mark D. Anderson is the founder of Discerning Software, a consulting firm specializing in internet application architecture whose clients have included Lycos and NetObjects. He is a co-founder of RecNet. He was formerly a Principal Engineer at Rational Software, where he implemented and lead several successful products through their complete lifecycle. He holds 3 patents, and has graduate degrees from MIT and from Berkeley.
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Mr. Larry Apfelbaum & Mr. Steven Meyer (Teradyne Software & Systems Test / AT&T) [USA]
Use Cases are Not Requirements (6S2)
Testing Telecommunications Software (4B1)

Larry Apfelbaum is the general manager of Teradyne's Software and Systems Test Division. Larry has authored papers for both IEEE and industry publications and conferences on software testing, automated program generation, artificial intelligence and diagnostics. He has been with Teradyne since 1973 and has been involved in the development and support of automatic test systems and automated test generation solutions. Prior to the TestMaster product group, he managed product teams developing a computer aided engineering tool suite focused on hardware design and test. Mr. Apfelbaum holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering (1973) and a Master's Degree in Computer Science (1973) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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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Mr. Alan Ark & Ms. Sarah Ackroyd (Thomson Financial Services) [USA]
Euro: An Automated Solution to Currency Conversion (2S2)

Alan Ark is currently a QA Tools Developer with First Call - a division of Thomson Financial Services. Current responsibilities include automation of testing tasks, creation of new tools to aid in QA tasks, and also to lend a critical eye at the design and source code level. He attended Northeastern University in Boston where he received both his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering. Previous work experience has been garnered from Control System Analysis, the MITRE Corporation, and at Cognex Corporation.

Sarah Ackroyd is currently a QA Project Leader with First Call - a division of Thomson Financial Services. Sarah has 7 years of software industry experience, since the completion of her degree at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Prior to working at First Call, Sarah worked at Individual Inc., where she managed the Technical Support Group and assisted in the setup of their European Office. Sarah compliments her technical pursuits at work, with an interest in drawing and sculpture.
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Mr. Nathan Baddoo & Dr. Tracy Hall (South Bank University) [UK]
Paper Title: The Impact of Software Practitioners on Software Quality (4M1)

Nathan Baddoo is a Ph.D. research student in the Centre for Systems and Software Engineering (CSSE) at South Bank University, UK. Previous research experience was an investigation conducted at Newcastle into the deployment of CASE in systems development in large organisations in the Unived Kingdom. Nathan spent a year in the information systems department of Nissan Manufacturing UK Limited, developing information systems.

Dr. Tracy Hall is a principal lecturer and head of the Centre for Systems and Software Engineering (CSSE) at the School of Computing and Information Systems Management at South Bank University, UK. For the past six years she has been active in the area of software quality and software measurement. She has numerous publications in this area. She has been a programme committee member of the British Computer Society's annual Quality Management Conferences and has chaired many successful conferences on responsible software engineering.
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Mr. Ira D. Baxter, Mr. Andrew Yahin, Mr. Srinivas Nedunuri & Mr. Leonardo Moura (Semantic Designs.) [USA]
Lowering Maintenance Costs by Code Clone Removal (4T1)

Dr. Baxter has been involved with computing since 1966, and implemented one of the first minicomputer timesharing systems on a Data General Nova in 1970. He received his B.S. in Computer Science (1973), and worked for a number of years in industry both as a consultant and as owner of Software Dynamics, a systems software house, where he designed compilers, time-sharing and network operating systems. In 1990, he received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Irvine, where he studied Software Engineering, focusing on design reuse using transformational methods. Dr. Baxter spent several years with Schlumberger, working on a PDE-solver generator for supercomputers (Sinapse). In 1994, he founded Semantic Designs, to build commercial tools that will radically enhance the method and economics of software maintenance.
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Dr. Boris Beizer (Independent Consultant) [USA]
An Overview of Testing: Unit, Integration, System (Tutorial F, Part I & II)
The Mavin (Keynote 10P3)

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. William Bently (mu_Research) [USA]
How to Test an Object: The Information Flow Approach (Tutorial C2)

William Bently is a software developer and software testing researcher. As a practitioner, he has most recently worked for companies such as the Bayer Corporation and the Upjohn Company developing high reliability software for biomedical applications. As a researcher, he has written several papers on a novel theoretical approach to software testing: the theory of dynamic information flow testing (Cd testing). He is currently investigating the application of this theory to the testing of Java objects and components (JavaBeans). William has served on the Quality Week Board of Advisors since 1992. He has a B.A. in Mathematics from Oberlin College and an M.S. in Biology from Ball State University.
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Mr. James R. Bindas (Intel Corporation) [USA]
Tactical Improvement Projects: Real-Life Lessons in Leading Change (8M1)

James R. Bindas is a Software Process Engineer with Intel Corporation in Hillsboro, Oregon. His tasks include implementing, standardizing and improving organizational and software development processes. James has been working with Intel for ten 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]
Modal Testing Strategies for Object-Oriented Software (Tutorial H, Part I & II)

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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Ms. Karen Bishop-Stone (TestWare Associates, Inc.) [USA]
Practical Software Test Case Design (Tutorial C1)

Karen Bishop-Stone has taught seminars on Software Testing and Quality Assurance Management internationally since 1980 and is a national conference lecturer on software life cycle testing methodologies. She has recently managed testing in eleven states for a large, complex, federally mandated program and has assisted several major corporations with their software quality guidelines. Ms. Bishop-Stone has been certified as a Certified Software Quality Analyst with the American Society of Quality and as a Certified Software Test Engineer with the Quality Assurance Institute. Ms. Bishop-Stone is the principal owner of Testware Associates, Inc., a firm dedicated to the independent testing and quality management of software
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Mr. Rex Black (Rex Black Consulting Services) [USA]
Charting the Progress of System Development Using Defect Data (SBA1)

Rex Black has spent sixteen years in the computer industry, with thirteen years in testing and quality assurance. He is the President and Principal Consultant of Rex Black Consulting Services, Inc., an international software and hardware testing and quality assurance consultancy (www.rexblackconsulting.com).  His clients include Dell, SunSoft, Hitachi, Motorola, Pacific Bell, IMG, Renaissance Worldwide, DataRace, Omegabyte, Strategic Forecasting, and Clarion.  He is currently working on a book for Microsoft Press to be published in June called Managing the Testing Process.  Mr. Black holds a BS Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from UCLA, and belongs to the Association for Computer Machinery and the American Society for Quality.
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Ms. Lisa Boden & Mr. Jon Hagar (Lockheed Martin Astronautics Company) [USA]
How to Build a 20 Year Successful Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Program for the Next Millennium (3A2)

Lisa Boden is a software engineer supporting software verification, validation, and testing at Lockheed Martin Astronautics in Denver, Co. She has a B.S. and a M.S. degree in Math from Colorado State University. Lisa has worked in software engineering, particularly testing/verification and validation, for three years. Lisa has experience in the software domain of real-time reactive embedded control systems as well as test software development using numerous languages, including C and Ada.
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Mr. Bruce Boes (Software Emancipation Technology, Inc.) [USA]
Improve Your Software Quality through Quality Process-Control and Management (VT15)

Bruce Boes, Vice President, Marketing, Software Emancipation Technology, Inc., has over fifteen years of experience in establishing marketing and business development programs for technology companies. Prior to joining Software Emancipation, he served as President of the Engineering, Manufacturing and Design Group at D.H. Brown Associates. Boes has held different positions at Matra Datavision, Inc., including Vice President, North American Operations and Corporate Vice President, Marketing Strategy. He holds an MBA in Management/Finance from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.
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Mr. Nick Borelli (Microsoft Corporation) [USA]
Seizing Control of the Development Lifecycle (7M2)

Mr. Nick Borelli is currently the Group Test Manager for the Project Business Unit at Microsoft Corporation and is responsible for World-Wide releases of the award-winning application, Microsoft Project. Nick has over 15 years experience in both Software Testing and Development and has worked in both small start-ups such as Pensoft, GO and EO, as well as working at Triad Systems, Apple and Software Publishing Corporation.
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Mr. Eric Bowden (KeyLabs) [USA]
Outsourced or Out-Of-Luck (VT14)

Prior to joining KeyLabs, Mr. Bowden was the Director of the LAN Times Testing Center. In that capacity he was responsible for all product evaluations and reviews for the testing arm of LAN Times magazine. During his six years at LAN Times, Mr. Bowden was responsible for developing the test methodologies that made the LAN Times Testing Center one of the most respected industry labs. Before LAN Times, Mr. Bowden gained his practical "big iron" experience at Brigham Young University, where he managed the alumni database on an IBM compatible mainframe. Mr. Bowden holds a MBA with emphasis in Information Systems and a BA in Organizational Communications.
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Mr. Michael Bowden (CYRANO) [USA]
Push the Limits of Your Applications and Deploy with Confidence (VT4)

Michael Bowden is the Technical Director for CYRANO's Year 2000 Software Testing Solutions. Mr. Bowden's specialty is software tool integration and reengineering the software development process. He previously served as 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. Ilene Burnstein, Dr. Ariya Homyen, Dr. Taratip Suwannasart, Mr. Robert Grom & Mr. Gary Saxena (Illinois Institute of Technology) [USA]
Using the Testing Maturity Model (TMM) to Assess and Improve Your Software Testing Process (3M2)

Ilene Burnstein holds a doctorate from Illinois Institute of Technology. She is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in software engineering. Her research interests include: software process engineering, testing techniques and methods, automated program recognition and debugging, and software engineering education.

Ariya Homyen received her doctoral in Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology in July 1998. She earned a masters degree in Computer Science from the University of New Haven, and a bachelors degree from Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. She now holds a research position at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Energy in Thailand. Her research interests include: test process improvement, test management and process reuse.

Taratip Suwannasart received a Ph.D. degree in the Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology in 1996. She now holds a faculty position at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. Her research interests are in test management, test process improvement, software metrics and data modeling.

Robert Grom received a BS degree from Southern Illinois University and an MS degree in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology. He has worked as a hardware engineer and now designs software for SAFCO Technologies, which develops cellular test equipment. His position is that of Manager of Data Collection Software. His research interests are: software testing, test process improvement and data communications.

Gary Saxena is a doctoral degree candidate at Illinois Institute of Technology. He received a Bachelor of Technology degree from Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, and a Masters Degree in Computer Science from DePaul University in Chicago. He is a member of the Technical Staff at Motorola. His research interests include: software architecture, formal methods, design methods, and process improvement models.
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Dr. Bettina Buth, Prof. Jan Peleska & Dr. Hui Shi (Bremen University) [Germany]
Combining Methods for the Analysis of a Fault-Tolerant System (3T2)

Dr. Buth is a research assistant and lecturer for computer science (formal methods, operating systems) at Bremen University in Germany. She has worked as a teaching assistant at the Institut f\"ur Informatik of Christian-Albrechts-Universit\"at in Kiel, Germany, from 1988 till 1995. She received her Ph.D. in February 1995; her thesis is titled ``Operation Refinement Proofs for VDM-like Specifications''. In 1995 she joined the group of Prof. Peleska in Bremen. Her current research interests focus on analysis techniques for realistic safety-critical embedded systems, especially code verification and model checking techniques. As a member of the Bremen Institute of Safe Systems (BISS) and as a free consultant for Verified Systems International in Bremen she participates in industrial projects with focus on avionics and space systems.

Since 1995, Dr. Peleska is a professor for computer science (operating systems and distributed systems) at Bremen University in Germany.

At the University of Hamburg, he studied mathematics and wrote his doctoral thesis on a topic in the field of differential geometry. From 1984 to 1990 he worked with Philips as Senior Software Designer and later on as department manager in the field of fault-tolerant systems, distributed systems and database systems. From 1990 to 1994 he was manager of a department at Deutsche System-Technik responsible for the development of safety-critical embedded systems. Since 1994 he has worked as a consultant, specialising on development methods, verification, validation and test of safety-critical systems. His habilitation thesis focusing on Formal Methods for the development of dependable systems was finished in 1995. Together with his wife Cornelia Zahlten, he has founded the company Verified Systems International GmbH in 1998, providing tools and services in the field of safety-critical system development, verification, validation and test. His current research interests include formal methods for the development of dependable systems, test automation based on formal methods with applications to embedded real-time systems, verification of security properties, and formal methods in combination with CASE methods. Current industrial applications of his research work focus on the development and verification of avionic software, space mission systems and railway control systems. He is associated with the Bremen Institute of Safe Systems (BISS), a division of the Center for Computing Technology TZI at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of Bremen University.

Dr. ~Hui Shi obtained a Bachelor of Engineering (1984) from Nanjing Institute of Technology (P.R. China) and a Master of Engineering (1987) from Changsha Institute of Technology (P.R. China). From 1990 to 1994 she studied at the University of Bremen (Germany) and obtained a Ph.D. in Engineering in November, 1994. She has been a teaching and researching assistant in the Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Bremen since then. Her research interests are distributed object systems, object-oriented languages, the application of formal methods, program manipulation by specification and transformation. She is working as a consultant in the field of specification and verification of safety-critical systems.
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Mr. David Carman (Bellcore) [USA]
Event-Based Test Generation for Distributed Systems (3S2)

David W. Carman is a senior Quality Assurance Engineer at Bellcore. He has eight years of quality assurance experience, testing 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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Dr. Eugenio Cervetto (Performance Research) [Italy]
Model-based performance analysis of an EDP/ERP-oriented wide area network (VT5)

Dr. Eugenio Cervetto received his degree in solid state physics from the University of Torino, Italy. Since 1994 he has been working for Olivetti-Lexicon in the Thin Films and Semiconductors group focusing on silicon processing simulation techniques. He joined Performance Research in 1996 holding the European collaborative R&D projects responsibility. He is currently the product manager of the PREDICTA performance-modeling tool. His area of activity is in the application of performance-oriented modeling techniques to the system-level software development and optimization processes.
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Dr. Mei-Hwa Chen, Mr. Ming-Hung H. Kao & Ms. Mei-Huei Tang (SUNY Albany) [USA]
Investigating Test Effectiveness on Object-Oriented Software -- A Case Study (6A1)

Mei-Hwa Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the State University of New York at Albany. Dr. Chen's research interests include software architecture analysis, design metrics, object-oriented testing and maintenance and software reliability modeling. She received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University.

Ming-Hung Kao is a senior software engineer in GE Fanuc Automation NA, Inc. Mr. Kao received an MS degree in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Albany. His research interests include object-oriented testing and software metrics.

Mei-Huei Tang is a doctoral degree candidate in the Computer Science at University at Albany, State University of New York. She received her Master degree in Computer Science from SUNY Albany. Her research interests include: software reuse, design metrics and software architecture.
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Mr. Yuri Chernak (Valley Forge Consulting, Inc.) [USA]
In-Process Validation and Improvement of Test-Case Effectiveness (8S2)

Yuri Chernak is president and founder of Valley Forge Consulting, Inc. - a consulting firm that specializes in the field of software quality assurance and systems testing. He has over twenty years of experience in the software industry. As a consultant, he has worked for various clients, primarily in the brokerage industry, and currently he works at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in New York. Mr. Chernak has a Ph.D. in computer science and he is a member of the IEEE. His research interests cover systems test methodology, software metrics, and process improvement, and he has been a speaker at international software quality conferences.
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Mr. Sergio Cherskov (Microsoft) [USA]
Testing Windows CE 3.0 Real-Time Kernel (7T2)

Sergio Cherskov spent last year building a team of engineers verifying every aspect of the core Windows CE 3.0 operating system, including kernel, real-time, device drivers and file systems. As a QA Lead, the primary responsibility is to improve the quality of the operating system and drive the processes to get there.

Fifteen years of direct embedded systems programming and design experience, ranging from individual embedded controllers to full systems. Device driver development, real-time simulations, cashless system development, smart card development, are some of the past areas of direct hands-on experience. Was a speaker at the WinCE DevCon 98 in San Jose, presenting Microsoft QA methodology and introducing DDTK (Device Driver Test Kit), a companion test suite for Windows CE OEMs.

Earned BSEE in Telecommunications, minors in Math and Physics from University of Split, Croatia in 1985 and served briefly as Telecommunications Assistant Professor. Systems programming for the Institute for Informatics and Telecommunications before moving to United States in 1987.
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Dr. Huey-Der Chu (National Defense Management College) [Taiwan]
Automating Client/Server Testing in the Real World (4S2)

Dr. Huey-Der Chu is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Management at the National Defense Management in Taiwan. His research currently interests in applying mobile agents to software testing and integrating ISO9000 and TQM into Software Development.

 

 

 
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Mr. Patrick Copeland (Microsoft) [USA]
Approaches to Testing Componentization in the Windows CE Operating System (7T1)

Patrick Copeland manages the Windows CE OS Quality Assurance Team for the Information Appliance Division at Microsoft Corporation. His team develops the testing process and strategy for Microsoft's newest and most flexible operating system. Throughout the product cycle, he's responsible for maintaining and shipping high quality bits build for dozens of CPUs, multiple languages, and numerous component configurations. As an undergraduate he attended University of Arizona and received an MS in CS from The University of Southern California. He's been at Microsoft for the past four years.
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Mr. Manu Das (Soffront) [USA]
Defect Tracking and Analysis, Software Quality, and the Internet (VT7)

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 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 Sofficer at Soffront Software, Inc., located in Milpitas, Calif. Mr. Das can be reached at manu@soffront.com.
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Mr. Michael Deck (Cleanroom Software Engineering, Inc.) [USA]
Requirements Analysis Using Formal Methods (Tutorial K, Part I & II)
Process Diversity: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Chaos (4M2)

Michael Deck is an internationally-recognized expert in Cleanroom software engineering practices. His consulting company, Cleanroom Software Engineering, Inc., specializes in training project teams to tailor and use Cleanroom practices to solve real-life software process problems. From 1982 to 1993 he was a member of the IBM Cleanroom Software Technology Center, where he worked closely with the inventors of the Cleanroom approach. He has a BA in Mathematics from Kalamazoo College and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park. His current research interests include application of Cleanroom to object-oriented development, real-time and embedded software, and highly reliable systems. He has published widely on various Cleanroom topics.
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Mr. Bill Deibler (Software Systems Quality Consulting) [USA]
Making the CMM Work: Streamlining the CMM for Small Projects and Organizations (4Q)

William J. Deibler II has an MSc. in Computer Science and 20 years experience in the computer industry, primarily in the areas of software and systems development, software testing, and software quality assurance. Bill has extensive experience in managing and implementing CMM- and ISO 9001-based process improvement in software engineering environments.

Bill is a founding partner of SSQC. Since 1990, SSQC has specialized in supporting organizations in the definition and implementation of Software Engineering Practices, Software Quality Assurance and Testing, Business Process Reengineering, ISO 9000 Registration and CMM implementation. SSQC offers HM2, a unique, hybrid appraisal method that defines and correlates the position of an organization with respect to both ISO 9001 and the CMM. The results of an HM2 assessment are a plan and framework for improving software engineering processes and for implementing the requirements of the two models.

Bill has developed and published numerous courses, auditing tools, research papers, and articles on interpreting and applying the ISO 9000 standards and guidelines and the SEI Capability Maturity Model for Software. His articles have appeared in McGraw Hill's Quality Systems Update, IEEE COMPUTER, McGraw Hill's ISO 9000 Handbook, CrossTALK, and Software Marketing Journal.

He has presented research papers at numerous national and international conferences, including those sponsored by the American Society for Quality Control (ASQC), Pacific Northwest Software Quality (PNSQC), the Software Publishers Association (SPA), Software Technology Support Center (STSC), the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and Software Research Inc.. His courses have been attended by software engineering professionals from many of the country's leading technology companies. His courses have been sponsored for their members by professional associations, including the ASQC, CSU Long Beach's Software Engineering Forum for Training, Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI), Software Engineering Institute (SEI), UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz.

He is an active United States TAG members in the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC7 - Software Engineering Standards subcommittee which is responsible for the development and maintenance of ISO 12207 and ISO 15504 (SPICE). His software development clients have successfully achieved ISO registration and advanced CMM maturity levels.
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Mr. Richard Denney (Landmark Graphics) [USA]
Blue Collar Formal Methods (7B2)

Richard is QA Manager for Landmark Graphics, holds an MS in CS from the University of Texas, and has 23 years industry experience. He was a panelist at ISSTA '96 addressing the topic "Formal Methods & Testing: Why State of the Art is not State of the Practice". He has presented papers or moderated sessions on FM with a QA twist for ISSRE '98, SQI's Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering '97, STAR '93, IEEE Software '91 and CASE '90. His interest in FM stems from past involvement in logic programming. In '89 he received a US patent for an industrial application of logic programming, and has written articles / papers on logic programming for AI Expert magazine, Software Development International magazine, and the SPIE/IEEE Applications of AI Conference.
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Mr. Thomas A. Drake (Coastal Research & Technology, Inc.) [USA]
Measuring Object-Oriented Software Quality for C++ and Java (Tutorial B2)

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.

He is the principal author of a chapter on "Metrics Used for Object-Oriented Software Quality" for a CRC Press Object Technology Handbook published in December of 1998. In addition, Mr. Drake is the author of a theme article entitled: "Measuring Software Quality: A Case Study" published in the November 1996 issue of IEEE Computer.

Mr. Drake is listed with the International Who's Who for Information Technology for 1999, is a member of IEEE and an affiliate member of the IEEE Computer Society. He is also a Certified Software Test Engineer (CSTE) from the Quality Assurance Institute (QAI).
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Ms. Sally Drew (TesCom UK SST) [UK]
E-Commerce Testing -- The Clash of the Titans (Tutorial J2)

Sally has over 12 year experience as a specialist tester, including development of Project Management skills and Systems Analysis techniques, based in both the UK and US. Prior to joining TesCom (the largest European specialist software testing consultancy) in February 1997, she was Test Director for an innovative multi-billion dollar OMT based E-commerce system using Internet, COM and DCOM technology. Before that she managed the testing of major CASE, Configuration and Object Repository Tools. Since joining Tescom she has overseen the development of specialist methods for testing multimedia products both Internet/Intranet based as well as CD-ROM and, more recently, development of E-Business techniques and tools. She believes that the structured, disciplined testing approaches used in non-multimedia development should be developed and applied to all media and new technologies. An award winning speaker, Sally is booked to speak at several conferences world-wide this year.
( Click here for TesCom UK SST)
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Ms. Elfriede Dustin & Mr. John Paul (CSC / Freddie Mac) [USA]
Moving From Conventional Testing to Object Oriented Testing (9Q)

Elfriede Dustin works as a Test Manager at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). She is a SQA Certified test engineer and supports test efforts for a multitude of information systems and systems integration projects. She is frequently a speaker at various Quality Assurance and Software Test Conferences. Elfriede has a BS degree in Computer Science and has performed as a Computer Systems Analyst/Programmer developing software applications and utilities, process and data modeling using CASE tools, and system design simulation models.

In support of software test efforts, Elfriede has been responsible for implementing automated test, or has performed as the lead consultant guiding the implementation of automated software test. She has lead the successful rollout of automated testing tools at three companies, and has applied her rollout strategy on over nine different projects.

Due to her automated test expertise, she has had a personal hand in the modification of capabilities represented within industry test tool products, based upon her use and feedback on their test products.

Elfriede Dustin is Co-Author of "Automated Software Testing" Addison-Wesley (for more detail see http://www.autotestco.com).

John Paul is a senior programmer/analyst at Freddie Mac. He has worked as a developer on a host of financial, budgeting and other information systems. His software development leadership responsibilities have included system analysis, design, application prototyping, and application development using a number of different methodologies and programming techniques. His development expertise is in client/server technology like Visual Basic/Sybase.

His software development responsibilities also included another important aspect of development life cycle - application testing using automated test tools. He has lead various test phases including Year 2000 compliance testing projects.

John Paul is also a co-author of the book "Automated Software Testing" published by Addison-Wesley. For more details about the book please visit http://www.autotestco.com.
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Ms. Peggy Fouts (Compuware Corporation) [USA]
Medical and Safety Critical Application Testing (3B1)

Peggy Fouts is a Senior QA Specialist for Compuware Corporation. She is employed in Quality Assurance and Testing Solutions services for the Minneapolis Professional Services branch has been involved in the software industry for over 25 years. She serves both as member of the Compuware corporate-wide planning group for Quality Assurance products and services and is also involved in the development of the internal training for Compuware's QA and test personnel.
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Mr. Tom Gilb (Result Planning Limited) [NORWAY]
Advanced Inspection (Tutorial G2)
Evolutionary Project Management (`Evo') (3Q)
Risk Management Technology: A Toolkit for Identifying, Documenting, Analyzing and Coping with Project Risks (6M2)

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. Steve Goodhall (Compuware) [USA]
Year 2000: Lessons Learned (VT6)

(Biography to be supplied.)
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Mr. Sam Guckenheimer (Rational Software Corporation) [USA]
Effective Testing for Java-Based Web Software (7A2)

Sam Guckenheimer is the senior director of marketing for Rational's Automated Testing products. In this role, he is responsible for the product direction and implementation of Rational's software testing products. He joined the engineering team at SQA Inc. in 1995 as director of technology integration and moved into his current position when SQA merged with Rational in early 1997.

Sam has held several marketing, engineering and general management positions in US and European software companies over the last fifteen years. At Rational, Guckenheimer has spearheaded the integration of the load testing products, the development of Web server testing technologies, the internationalization of SQA suite, and the introduction of OEM versions of these products. Prior to joining SQA, he spent six years with Softbridge Inc., ending his time there as managing director of Softbridge Capital Markets, a subsidiary based in London, England. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard University, he is a frequent speaker on software development and application topics at industry conferences and seminars, and has spoken as a guest lecturer at the management schools of MIT, Harvard and Yale.
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Mr. Jon Hagar (Lockheed Martin Astronautics Company) [USA]
Industrial Experiences in Establishing Laboratories and Software Models for Testing Software (9A1)
Testing for Military and Government Software (4B2)

Jon Hagar is a senior staff software engineer supporting software product integrity, verification, validation, and testing at Lockheed Martin Astronautics in Denver, Co. He has a B.S. Degree in Math with specialization in civil-engineering and software from Metropolitan State College of Denver, CO, and a M.S. degree in computer science with specialization in software engineering and testing from Colorado State University. Jon has worked in software engineering, particularly testing/verification and validation, for twenty years. The projects, he has supported, are primarily booster and space related. He has experience in the software domain of real-time reactive embedded control systems as well as test software development using numerous languages, including JOVIAL and Ada. Jon is a member of the ACM and IEEE. He teaches classes at Lockheed Martin Astronautics and skiing in the mountains. He has published articles on software reliability, testing, test tools, formal methods, and critical-systems, as well as having presented at NASA and Software Productivity Consortium working groups. Jon's work interests include software testing, verification, validation, product integrity and assessment, system engineering, reliability/metrics, neural-networks in testing, test support tools, formal methods, and quality assurance. He is member of the STQE magazine "Gauntlet" group and periodically writes for the magazine.
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Mr. Ted Hammer (NASA GSFC SATC) [USA]
Continuous Risk Management at NASA (7Q)

Mr. Ted Hammer is the Associate Chief of the Systems Reliability and Safety Office and acting NASA manager for the Software Assurance Technology Center (SATC) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). The SATC, in association with NASA Ames IV&V Facility, seeks to improve GSFC and NASA software by improving software quality, reducing development risks, and lowering life cycle costs. A prime focus of the SATC is the provision of software metrics support to GSFC and NASA software development and acquisition projects. In order to meet the needs of these projects, the supporting research done by the SATC is essential to allow the assurance activities to keep pace with the changing software development environment. SATC develops techniques, provides software assurance tools, and transfers this technology to NASA and industry. Mr. Hammer is also responsible for promoting risk management throughout projects at NASA. In this role, he works with the development and teaching of NASA Continuous Risk Management training courses taught throughout NASA and industry.

Mr. Hammer has over 22 years of experience in software development and assurance, 9 with the government at GSFC, and 14 with the government and private industry supporting the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA). He joined NASA/GSFC in 1989. Here he supported NASA Headquarters Software Management Assurance Program, where he participated in the review of the early versions of the military software development standards and guidebooks.

Mr. Hammer received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland. He is a member of the American Society for Quality.
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Dr. Magdy Hanna (International Institute for Software Testing) [USA]
Establishing a Software Inspection Process (Tutorial G1)
Disciplined Software Testing Practices and Certification (VT20)

Dr. Hanna is a recognized educator, speaker and consultant in several related areas of software engineering. Dr. Hanna brings over twenty years of experience with building and maintaining software systems. Dr. Hanna is the Conference Chair for the International Conference on Practical Software Quality techniques ( www.softdim.com/psqt) and the Chairman and CEO of the Software Testing Institute ( www.softdim.com/iist). As a consultant, he helped many organizations define and improve their software processes using disciplined software engineering approaches. As an associate professor at the University of St. Thomas, he teaches graduate courses on several software engineering topics with emphasis on practical software quality techniques. His distinguished seminars on various topics have been highly rated by software professionals. He developed new approaches and methods in software development including the Software Quality Engineering Methodology (SQEngineer), the Unified Data Model (UDM), and the Data-Driven Object Model (DOM). Dr. Hanna holds a Ph.D. and a Master degree in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of Minnesota.
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Mr. Avi Harel (ErgoLlight Ltd.) [Israel]
Measuring the Quantity of GUI Usability (VT13)

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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Ms. Elisabeth Hendrickson (Aveo, Inc.) []
Mass Market Software Testing (2B)

Elisabeth Hendrickson is the Quality Engineering Manager at Aveo, Inc. Prior to joining Aveo, she founded Quality Tree Software, a software quality assurance consulting company. With over a decade of experience in the software industry, Elisabeth has been a programmer, tester, technical writer, support technician, and manager (sometimes simultaneously).
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Mr. Douglas Hoffman (Software Quality Methods) [USA]

Test Automation Architectures: Planning for Test Automation (2S1)
Thoughts on Oracles and Software Test Automation (w/Cem Kaner) (6Q)

Douglas Hoffman has fifteen years experience in creating and transforming software quality and development groups, and twenty years of management experience. He has been a participant at dozens of software quality conferences and has been Program Chairman for several international conferences on software quality. He has architected test automation environments for several commercial systems and software companies, and has been an active participant in the Los Altos Workshops on Software Testing (LAWST).

He is an independent consultant with Software Quality Methods, LLC. He has been in the software engineering and quality assurance fields for over 25 years and now teaches courses and consults with Silicon Valley companies in strategic and tactical planning for software quality. He has been elected Chairman of the Santa Clara Valley Software Quality Association (SSQA) five times and is currently Chairman of the Silicon Valley Section of ASQ.. He is active as a Senior Member in the ASQ, participating in the Software division, the Software Quality Task Group, and the ISO 9000 Task Group, and is also a member of the ACM and IEEE. He has earned an MBA as well as an MS in Electrical Engineering and BA in Computer Science, was among the first to earn a Certificate from ASQ in Software Quality Engineering, and has been a registered ISO 9000 Lead Auditor.
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Mr. Mark Johnson (OrCAD) [USA]
Productivity in Small Integrated Teams (8B2)

Mark currently enjoys being part of a product development team. His primary interest is in helping teams be more productive and effective in their work. Mark has over 25 years experience being a leader in ISO 9001 registration, process improvement using the CMM, and building teams. He has been active in the software quality community volunteering with conferences, presenting papers, and publishing articles.
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Dr. Cem Kaner (Attorney at Law) [USA]
Facing the Future: The Law (K5P1)
Thoughts on Oracles and Software Test Automation(6Q)
Status Report on Software Quality Laws (7B1)
Interviewing Software Testing Job Candidates (8Q)

Cem Kaner tests software and software-related legislation. The senior author of Testing Computer Software, Kaner has worked with computers since 1976, doing and managing programming, user interface design, testing, and user documentation. Through his consulting firm, KANER.COM, he teaches courses on black box software testing and consults to software publishers on software testing, documentation, and development management. Kaner is also the founder and co-host of the Los Altos Workshop on Software Testing. He is writing a new book, Good Enough Testing, with James Bach and Brian Marick.

An attorney whose practice is focused on the law of software quality, Kaner usually represents customers and individual developers or small consulting firms. He is active (as an advocate for customers, authors, and small development shops) in several legislative drafting efforts involving software licensing, software quality regulation, and electronic commerce. He has recently published a new book, Bad Software: What To Do When Software Fails (with David Pels, John Wiley & Sons, 1998).

Kaner holds a B.A. in Arts & Sciences (Math, Philosophy), a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology (Human Perception & Performance: Psychophysics), and a J.D. (law degree). He is Certified in Quality Engineering by the American Society for Quality.

Cem Kaner, J.D., Ph.D.
PO Box 1200, Santa Clara, CA 95052
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Mr. John Kent (CISS Ltd.) [UK]
Advanced Automated Testing Architectures (8T2)

John Kent set up CISS Ltd to provide test management and automated testing consultant services to major UK companies including ING Barings, Prudential, Cornhill Insurance, Zurich Financial Services and Indus International. He has given many presentations at conferences in both Europe and the US, on a range of software testing subjects including automated testing and testing Web based applications. He also gives training courses in test automation.

John has been involved in automated testing on both text-based/mainframe and GUI/Client Server systems for the past nine years. He has built many testing tools including automated execution, test management and test environment creation tools and has developed advanced methods for automating tests.

John's other professional interests are systems development and more recently, the Web. He is co-author of the "Official Netscape Guide to JavaScript 1.2" (Netscape Press, 1996- now in its second edition) and is currently writing a book on software testing due out in 1999. He is Vice Chairman of the British Computer Society SIGIST's Software Testing Standards Working Group.

He has a B.Sc. in Physics and an M.Sc. in Microprocessor Technology. He lives with his wife and two children in Woking, England.
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Mr. Alain Kerbrat & Mr. Iulian Ober (Verilog) [France]
Automated Test Generation from SDL/UML Specifications (9S1) (VT1)

Alain Kerbrat is responsible for the test generation R&D projects at Verilog, a french company designing software tools for the development of safety critical systems. He formerly worked for the french research laboratory Verimag , where he defended a PhD in 1994 about the use of symbolic techniques for the verification of concurrent programs. Since then, he has worked with companies such as Bull, Hewlett-Packard, France Telecom on the industrial use of formal techniques. From 1996 to mid-1998, he was the coordinator for the french national project Forma, which aim was to federate industrial and academic efforts, for the promotion of formal methods in industrial software engineering. During these years, he also participated to the design and development of the prototype test generator TGV, which is now one part of the TestAuthor tool presented here.

 
  Iulian Ober prepares his Ph.D. at the National Polytechnic Institute in Toulouse, France, in collaboration with Verilog. His main interest area is the use of formal techniques in automated test generation. Before starting his Ph.D. research, he worked in research laboratory of the University of Cluj, Romania, on the use of hybrid object oriented analysis and design methods and their applications in CASE tools.
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Mr. Ed Kit & Mr. Hans Buwalda (Software Development Technologies / CMG Finance) [USA/Netherlands]
Interated Test Design and Automation (Tutorial A, Part 1 & II)

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

Hans Buwalda has worked with many major clients in the financial world, industry trading and government. From this experience he developed a new method for testing systems with support of automated tools, using a concept called "Action Words." The method has spread rapidly, and is now in use for a large number of organizations, large and small, in several European countries. Hans is a senior management consultant at CMG, a major European company for IT services. He is a frequent speaker for conferences and workshops on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Mr. Ara Kouchakdjian (Q-Labs) [USA]
Experience using Statistical Usage Testing at the FAA (VT3)

Ara Kouchakdjian is a Business Area Manager with Q-Labs, located in College Park, Maryland. He has been working in software technology since 1985. His focus is the project introduction and usage of engineering-based software technologies. These include Statistical Usage Testing, Sequence-Based Specifications, and other techniques, many of which are a part of Cleanroom Software Engineering. His time is divided between introducing the technologies to others and "practicing what he preaches", actually using the technologies themselves. Much of his background is in the defense and telecommunications arena. Ara received the B.A. from Columbia College, Columbia University, and the M.S. from the University of Maryland.
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Mr. Herb Krasner (Krasner Consulting) [UK]
Using the Cost of Quality Approach for Software (6M1)

Herb Krasner has almost 30 years of experience in the software engineering profession - as a practitioner, manager, researcher, teacher and now as an excellence coach. As President of Krasner Consulting since 1991, he is a management consultant specializing in assisting organizations in the evaluation, planning and implementation of computer systems quality and process improvement programs. He sometimes provides troubleshooting advice on out of control software projects, as well as due diligence evaluations for emerging software companies. He has helped many companies achieve results oriented improvement of their software capabilities, according to a number of models, standards, and goals. His clients include many excellence-aspiring companies of all sizes and shapes. Several of his clients have successfully climbed to the highest levels of the SEI CMM maturity ladder and thereby realized significant benefits. He is a Master Lead Assessor, having being certificated by the SEI. He has also been involved as a subject matter expert in a number of computer-oriented legal actions. He is Chairman Emeritus of the Software Quality Institute at the University of Texas and has been chairman of, and/or keynote speaker at several international conferences. He also teaches the body of knowledge for the ASQ Certified Software Quality Engineer program. He is active in professional society efforts in the ACM, IEEE Computer Society and ASQ. He has frequently published and presented his work in many professional forums. He can be reached at Krasner Consulting, 1901 Ringtail Ridge, Austin, Texas 78746, Phone: 512-328-4264, Fax: 512-328-3260, Email: hkrasner@cs.utexas.edu.
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Mr. Lorenzo Lattanzi & Mr. Mario Musmeci (Alenia Aerospazio) [Italy]
Safety Critical S/W Development for a Satellite Based Navigation System (8A1)

Lorenzo Lattanzi received the diploma in Nuclear Power and Electronics, at the Technical Institute E. FERMI - Rome in 1980. He's been working in ALENIA SPAZIO SpA since 1983 within the Central Quality Directorate. After previous experiences as reliability engineer, on the first European Remote Sensing (ERS-1) satellite project, he's been involved in several projects as Software Quality Assurance engineer. Presently he's the S/W Quality Assurance Engineer for the Central Control Facility of the EGNOS project. He's the responsible of the S/W Quality Assurance group in Alenia Aerospazio Rome plant.

Mario Musmeci graduated in Physics at the University of Rome - La Sapienza - in 1988. He was involved in the (SRL) Space Radar Laboratory 1 and 2 in the frame of the joint project between USA, Italy and Germany space agencies. SRL-1 and SRL-2 have been completed in the 1994 providing Earth radar images for different disciplines (geology, hydrology, ecology, oceanography) the second mission has been characterised by interferometric experiments experiments. Presently he's involved in the EGNOS G/S (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service) phase B2 and B2 Extension. Member of the system team for the optimisation of the ground segment (B2 Extension phase). He will be the technical responsible for the Central Control Facility for the C/D phase (planned start of mid '98). The work foresees the specification and the design of the ground segment for the EGNOS system devoted to the satellites navigation for civil aviation based on the use of the GPS and GLONASS constellations (in the frame of the European GNSS-1).
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Mr. Philip Lones (Lucent Technologies) [USA]
Revolutionary? A Development Method That Works (7M1)

As a consultant with Analysts International, Phil Lones is currently working as the test manager for a PC based project with Lucent Technologies. He has several years' experience testing mainframe and client server applications. As a retired Naval Officer, Phil has leveraged his experience in shipboard and aviation quality assurance methodologies to software testing and quality control. Mr. Lones holds an MS degree in Information Systems Management from the University of Colorado at Denver, a BS degree in computer science from the Metro State College of Denver and a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington. He is a member of the Association for Computer Machinery and the Rocky Mt. Information Managers Association.
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Mr. Brian Marick (Reliable Software Technologies Corp.) [USA]
Facing the Future: New Models for Test Development (10P2)

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).
( marick@rstcorp.com)
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Dr. Martina Marre, Ms. Monica Bobrowski & Dr. Daniel Yankelevich (Universidad de Buenos Aires) [Argentina]
A Software Engineering View of Data Quality (9T2) QWE'98 BEST PAPER!

Martina Marré is currently an Assistant Professor at University of Buenos Aires, and an independent consultant in software and data quality. She received a PhD from University of Buenos Aires and a MS degree in computer science from Escuela Superior Latino/Americana de Informatica (ESLAI). Her research interests are software testing and data quality.

Monica Bobrowski received a M.S. degree in computer science from Escuela Superior LatinoAmericana de Informatica (ESLAI) in 1990. She is currently an Assistant Professor at University of Buenos Aires, and an independent consultant in software and data quality. Her research interests are software architectures, testing and data quality.

Daniel Yankelevich is Associate Professor at University of Buenos Aires, and founder of Pragma Consultores, a consulting firm dedicated to software quality. He has a Ph.D. from University of Pisa, and has published many papers in software validation and software engineering. His research interests are software architectures, testing, and data quality.
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Dr. John McGregor (Clemson University) []
Testing Distributed Object Systems(Tutorial B1)

Dr. John D. McGregor is an associate professor of computer science at Clemson University and a senior partner in Software Architects, a software design consulting firm, specializing in object-oriented design techniques. Dr. McGregor has conducted funded research for organizations such as the National Science Foundation, DARPA, IBM and AT&T. Dr. McGregor has developed testing techniques for object-oriented software and developed custom testing processes for a variety of companies. Dr. McGregor is co-author of "Object-Oriented Software Development: Engineering Software for Reuse" published by Van Nostrand Reinhold. Dr. McGregor is also co-author of A Practical Guide to Testing Object-Oriented Software to be published by Addison-Wesley. He has published numerous articles on software development focusing on design and quality issues. Dr. McGregor's research interest include software engineering specifically in the areas of design quality, testing and measurement.
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Ms. Frances I. Medina & Mr. Andrew Van Kraanen (AT&T Operational Technology Center) [USA]
Test Automation of a GUI WEB Based Application: An Experience Developing Reusable Automated Testing (6T2)

Frances was hired by AT&T in 1991, worked as a software developer for 4 years. Have been working in GUI WEB based test automation since 1996.

Andrew was hired by AT&T in 1993. Have been working in system test automation, including GUI WEB based test automation.
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Mr. Brian Miller (Teradyne) [USA]
Automated Test Generation for Computer Telephony Systems (3T1)

Brian Miller is the division product manager of Teradyne's Software and Systems Test group, which is involved in developing state-of-the-art solutions to the specification and testing of software-based systems and improving the overall development process from requirements through maintenance. Brian has 20 years of experience at Teradyne in working with customers to deploy test automation on large-scale systems. This includes simulation for design and test applications, automated test generation software, and automated test execution systems. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering (1980) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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Dr. Edward Miller (Software Research, Inc.) [USA]

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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Dr. John D. Musa (Independent Consultant) [USA]
Software Reliability Engineering: More Reliable Software, Faster (Tutorial D2)

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." His latest book, "Software Reliability Engineering: More Reliable Software, Faster Development and Testing" has just been published by McGraw-Hill. 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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Mr. Kenneth Nagin & Dr. Alan Hartman (IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa) [Israel]
TCBeans Software Test Tool Kit (2T2)

Kenneth Nagin was educated in US, receiving his B.A. from the University of Madison and B.S. from the University of Pittsburgh. He joined the IBM Haifa Research Laboratory in 1985 and has worked in various subjects including copy services and disaster recovery solutions for direct access storage devices and test tool development. He manages the testing for the research Lab's system application projects including IP over CATV, voice over IP and Kiosk solution for digital libraries. He is the holder of nine patents. His current research is concerned with automatic software testing and quality control in software development

 
  Alan Hartman was educated in Australia, Israel and Canada, receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 1980, and completing post-doctoral studies at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. He joined the IBM Haifa Research Laboratory in 1983 and has worked in various capacities, doing research on algorithms, combinational theory, network design, direct access storage devices, operations research and hardware verification. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Toronto and has spent a year associated with Telstra Research Laboratories during leaves of absence from IBM. He has published more than 40 research papers and is the holder of two patents. His current research is concerned with hardware and software verification and attempts to combine the lessons learnt from each area to the other.
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Dr. Jakob Nielsen (Nielsen Norman Group) [USA]
Facing the Future: Usability Aspects of Quality (10P1)

Dr. Jakob Nielsen is a User Advocate specializing in Web usability and a principal of Nielsen Norman Group, which he co-founded with former head of Apple Research, Dr. Donald A. Norman. Until 1998, Dr. Nielsen was a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer and led that company's Web usability efforts starting with the original design of SunWeb in early 1994. His previous affiliations include the IBM User Interface Institute, Bell Communications Research, and the Technical University of Denmark. Nielsen is the author of the bestselling textbooks "Usability Engineering" and "Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond"; his next book, "Designing Excellent Websites: Secrets of an Information Architect" will be published by New Riders in May 1999. Since 1995, Nielsen has written the biweekly Alertbox column about Web usability; his website received 5 million page views in 1998. Nielsen has been called "the guru of Web page usability" (The New York Times) and "the smartest person on the Web" (Ziff-Davis Network), and "the next best thing to a true time machine" (USA Today. He holds 19 U.S. patents, mainly on ways to make the Internet easier to use.
( Click here for the Nielsen Norman Group website)
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Mr. Gerry Ocampo (Data Dimensions) [USA]
Testing Considerations for Web-Enabled Applications (VT18)

As a Managing Principal Consultant for Data Dimensions, Gerry Ocampo works on developing SQA and Test strategy in the areas of ERP applications, Sales Force Automation, Data Warehousing, and Test Automation. He also provides consultation in the areas of risk assessment, test management and test automation.

Ocampo brings more than 19 years computer experience to the table. Prior to joining Data Dimensions in 1996, Gerry Ocampo worked for companies such as CITICORP, GE Capital, and Oracle Corporation in the areas of data operations, software development and quality assurance, respectively.
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Ms. Carla Oexmann (ATI Research) [USA]
Running a Nightly Test (9B2)

Carla Oexmann has been testing compilers and libraries since 1984, working in languages ranging from Ada to V. She quite enjoys the delicate craftsmanship of architecting a set of tests that maximizes coverage and completeness, and minimizes time/space required.
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Mr. John Okanishi (Computer Associates) [USA]
Automating Cleanroom Management (VT16)

John Okanishi has worked as a Technical Consultant for Computer Associates for seven years. His product areas of expertise include database and applications development on the mainframe, client/server, and web platforms.
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Mr. Rob Oshana (Raytheon Systems Company) [USA]
An Automated Testing Environment to support Operational Profiles of Software Intensive Systems (3S1)

Robert Oshana is a Senior Principle Engineer at Raytheon Systems Company. He has been developing real-time embedded systems for over 16 years. He has led DSP development efforts for over ten years. Robert regularly speaks and publishes at national and international conferences in the areas of software testing, DSP optimization and development, software process improvement and embedded system development issues. He has masters degrees in electrical engineering, computer science, and business administration, and is an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University where he teaches software systems engineering and software process improvement courses in the graduate software engineering program.
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Dr. Ingrid B. Ottevanger (IQUIP Informatica BV) [Netherlands]
Test Factory (TSite): A Next Step in Structured Testing (9S2)

Dr. Ingrid B. Ottevanger works for IQUIPP Informatica BV projectgroep, a Dutch company which is leading in the field of software testing and quality assurance. IP/ is the founding father of TMap (Test Management Approach). Dr. Ottevanger is employed as a test manager and as a TMap-consultant.
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Mr. Federico Pacquing, Jr. (TechWave Inc.) [USA]
Usability Testing in E-Commerce Applications (4A2)

Federico Pacquing is the General Manager of Quality Assurance for TechWave, Inc., a venture-funded e-commerce company. Responsible for all test and process management, he has played a major role in the implementation of a first time cross-organizational Quality Assurance program.

Prior to entering the corporate world, Federico spent a number of years as an Air Force officer specializing in SQA Management. He has had experience both managing and testing projects of a number of types including "shrink-wrapped", embedded, and real-time systems. Customers have included the FAA, Department of Defense, the Surgeon General and others. He has also worked as a Process Improvement Manager and a Configuration Manager.

Federico holds Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the United States Air Force Academy and a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Oklahoma City University.
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Dr. Heesun Park (SAS Institute Inc.) [USA]
Optimum Level of Test Automation for Client/Server Software (4S1)

Currently I am a manager of QA Client/Server group at SAS Institute. I have a Ph.D in computer engineering and have 16 years of experience in networking software development and testing. My research and work interest focuses on test process improvement and test automation for client/server software.
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Mr. Andreas Rudolf & Mr. Rainer Pirker (IBM) [AUSTRIA]
Millennium is getting closer -- The Quickstart to Y2K Testing (2Q)

Andreas Rudolf is a certified 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. He currently consults clients about Y2k testing in the financial services and automobile industry across Europe.

Mr. Rudolf was co-author of the IBM red book "Cooperative processing in an object oriented environment" and was speaker at various international conferences regarding test and quality assurance.

Mr. Rudolf attended the School of Engineering in Moedling, Austria, where he earned a bachelors degree in Telecommunication and Electronics.

 
Rainer Pirker is a consultant with IBM Application Development Effectiveness Practice. he specializes in test concepts and strategies to improve software quality.

Mr. Pirker has 5 years experience in executing, developing and improving tests at IBM, and worked some years for different public institutions and software companies in application development during study. Within IBM, he was tester and system specialist for a workflow product, test leader for a business application and now he is a test consultant, particularly for Y2K and EURO problems.

From the middle of 1997, Mr. Pirker has been responsible for the conceptual and practical test process of the Year 2000 test at a large bank, and is leading a test-team of about 20 testers dedicated to this project. Over 140 major applications bundles had been tested by the end of 1998. He is currently acting as test consultant for Y2K testing also for other projects in the insurance and transport industry.

Mr. Pirker studied computer science with economics in Vienna, Austria and, during this study, he specialized in software test concepts and performance testing.

Prior presented papers, press articles, and interviews given by Rudolf/Pirker can be found at: http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/7559/.
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Mr. Martin Pol (IQUIP Informatica B.V.) [NETHERLANDS]
Test Process Improvement (Keynote 5P1)

Martin Pol, with more than 25 years of experience in information technology, has worked for IQUIP Informatica B.V. in The Netherlands since 1991, within Software Control Testen, a department dedicated to testing only. Since 1997 Martin Pol is also working in Belgium, where his services are available through GiTek Software n.v. in Antwerp. With exceptional insight and experience in practical testing issues, Martin is a respected speaker at conferences and training sessions throughout Europe and in the USA. He is responsible for many publications on structured testing in Dutch, English and French. He was involved in the development of the structured testing approach TMap. Under his management TMap became the Dutch and Belgian testing standard. Now the approach is used in more than 200 companies in the Benelux and other parts of Europe. Martin Pol is co-author of three Dutch books on TMap and Test Process Improvement, and of the English translations of TMap and TPI, that will be available in the autumn of 1998. As Manager Research & Development he is responsible for the innovation of the testing methods of Software Control Testen and GiTek. 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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Martin Pol is the recipient of "The 1998 European Testing Excellence Award" sponsored by IBM-Global Services. This award is given to the individual who has made the greatest contribution to the field of testing across Europe.

The citation for Mr. Pol's award contains these quotes:

• "His vision, dedication, professional enthusiasm and hard work strongly contributed to the improvement of software testing in Europe";
• "Under Pol's leadership and as a consequence of his vision a great number of testing services and products have been successfully developed (e.g. TMap, TPI, TAKT, TSite)";
• "Pol is the co-author of 5 books on Structured Testing and Test Process Improvement";
• "Over the years Martin Pol has become well recognised in the scientific community as a leading specialist in Structured Testing and Test Management", (Dr. Ir. J. Trienekens, Associate Professor, University of Eindhoven (NL).

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Mr. Dave Priest (Sunpower Computing) [USA]
(To be supplied.) (VT11)

(Biography to be supplied.)
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Mr. Shel Prince (Software Development Technologies) [USA]
Automating Software Inspections (VT12)

Shel Prince has a strong background in testing both system and application software, managing software test groups, designing and implementing tools for test automation and consulting on projects on the software development process. He was Enterprise System Test Manager at Sun Microsystems where he coordinated testing activity for eight diverse test groups. He has also established a Central Test Lab for Attachmate Corporation and managed a Quality Assurance group at Boole & Babbage. While at IBM, he managed the PL/1 Test and Release department and was the lead designer/architect for a device support test tool.

Shel has a BA in Physics from Cornell University and MBA graduate studies at the University of Santa Clara.
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Mr. Steven Prothero (Intrinsa Corporation) [USA]
Concurrent Software Development and Quality Assurance: New Tools and Techniques (VT9)

Steve has done a variety of software development, software testing, technical support, technical training, and technical writing since 1981, when he earned his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis, MO.

During four years at Bell Laboratories, Steve first developed test suites for a UNIX-like operating system for transaction processing. He designed and implemented test tools to automate regression testing, and also planned, implemented, and ran many tests. Then he developed and delivered data-systems training, and provided technical support, for the large, distributed, transaction-processing applications built on that operating system.

During eleven years at Rational Software Corporation, Steve developed software tests or documentations for several products, including:

• The original Rational Environment on R1000 systems, for large-scale software engineering with Ada, and its successor, Rational Apex, which supports Ada, C, C++ and Java.
  
• Rational Rose, an object-oriented analysis and design tool.
  
• SoDA, a software documentation automation tool built on Adobe FrameMaker-SGML.

Steve then decided to try working as a consultant, through Expert Support, but was soon hired back into regular employment by his favorite client, Intrinsa Corporation. He is now their Director of Quality Assurance.
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Mr. Steven Rabin (Interworld Corporation) [USA]
eCommerce Performance Benchmarking -- Methodology and Criteria (4A1)

Steve Rabin is Chief Technologist at Interworld Corp. a New York firm offering a variety of electronic commerce application technology solutions. He specializes in emerging technologies in the areas of communications, distributed processing, object/component based development and Internet enabled Enterprise architectures.

His prior experience includes being Chief Technologist at Logility, Inc., where he worked on the development of the first production based, web enabled worldwide eCommerce based Supply Chain Planning System. This application won the IEC Gartner Electronic Commerce award. Prior to that he founded Optimized Planning Systems, an application development firm specializing in manufacturing and automation related software operating in a variety of environments. Previously he was also Director, International Systems at Pfizer Inc., a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical firm.

He is a certified CDP and has published articles in Computer Language, Data Based Advisor, Systems Development as well as authoring the "Mission Critical Views" column in Application Development Trends magazine. Recent speaking engagements include Internet Expo, Software Development, Object World, The ERP Summit and eCommerce Expo. He sits on the advisory committee or chairs Object World, Internet Expo and eCommerce Expo.
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Mr. Roger M. Records, Mr. Jay G. Ahlbeck, Ms. Linda J. Lin, Mr. Jon S. Scharer & Ms. Margaret A. Stocking (Boeing Commercial Airplanes) [USA]
Deploying SQA in Very Small Projects (2M1)

Roger M. Records is an Associate Technical Fellow with Boeing Commercial Airplanes. He is currently working with a Software Quality Assurance group with responsibilities in SQA courseware design and SQA technology transfer. He also works with the Airplane Safety Engineering group in computing support. Prior to his work in Software Quality Assurance, he supported contract work in the human factors domain for NASA and the FAA with Boeing's Flight Deck Research group. He is a co-inventor for a U.S. patent held by Boeing for electronic checklist software.
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Mr. John N. Romanak (Bellcore) [USA]
Life as a CMM Level 5 Test Organization (3M1)

John. N. Romanak - Executive Director - Software Quality Assurance Independent Testing for Bellcore's Software Development organization. John leads SQA Testing Project Management, Contract/Proposal Management for Elective Testing Services, Testing/Automation Architecture and Applied Research - Testing Paradigm advancement.

Thirty (30) years experience in Software Systems, with the past seven (7) years concentrated in building a World Class Independent Testing organization at Bellcore. Bellcore's Software Development organization numbers about 3,300 employees, and is ISO9000 and and SEI CMM Level Three certified. Bellcore's quality journey began in 1993, when testing was viewed as providing low value and there was a very poor relationship between testing and development. Bellcore's SQA Independent Testing organization is now industry-recognized as best in class. John Romanak has given workshops on Independent SQA Testing and has shared Bellcore's success story with many large corporations.
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Dr. Linda Rosenberg (SATC, NASA) [USA]
Writing High Quality Requirement Specifications (Tutorial E, Part I & II)

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 primary responsibilities are in the areas of Metrics, Assurance Tools and Techniques, Risk Management, and 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. Dr. Rosenberg's work in software metrics outside of NASA includes work with the Joint Logistics Command's efforts to establish a core set of process, product and system metrics with guidelines published in the Practical Software Measurement. As part of the SATC outreach program, Dr. Rosenberg has presented metrics/quality assurance tutorials at IEEE and ACM international conferences. She also reviews for ACM, IEEE and military conferences and journals.

Immediately prior to this assignment, Dr. Rosenberg was an Assistant Professor in the Mathematics/Computer Science Department at Goucher College in Towson, MD.

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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Mr. Mike Ross (Quantitative Software Management, Inc.) [USA]
Size Does Matter: Continuous Size Estimating and Tracking (2M2)

Michael A. Ross is currently is currently Managing Director of the Phoenix Office of Quantitative Software Management, Inc., where for the last three years he has served as one of the QSM's primary consultants and analysts working with Fortune 500 companies and government agencies in the areas of measurement, sizing, forecasting, and control.

Mr. Ross, during 17 years with Honeywell Air Transport Systems (formerly Sperry Flight Systems), developed or managed the development of embedded software for avionics systems installed in the Lockheed L1011-500, Boeing 757/767, Airbus A320, Douglas MD-11, British Aerospace BAe-146, and Boeing 777 airplanes. He also co-founded the division's process improvement team (later to become its SEPG), served as a corporate SEI CMM assessor, and served as the division's focal for software project management process improvement.

Mr. Ross did his undergraduate work at the United States Air Force Academy and Arizona State University, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering. He is a member of the IEEE, the International Function Points Users Group, the International Society of Parametric Analysts, the Arizona Software Association, and the Phoenix area Software Process Improvement Network.
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Ms. Johanna Rothman (Rothman Consulting Group, Inc.) [USA]
Life as a New Test Manager (6B)
Using Quality to Drive Product Development Processes (9A2)

Johanna Rothman speaks, writes, and consults on managing high technology product development. She has over twenty years experience in software engineering and software management and is part of the clinical faculty of The Gordon Institute at Tufts University.

Johanna publishes Reflections, a quarterly newsletter about managing product development. She has written articles for Software Development, American Programmer, Cutter IT, and IEEE Computer. She holds two ASQ certifications: Certified Quality Auditor and Certified Software Quality Engineer.
(Click here for Johanna Rothman's Home Page)
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Mr. Hanania T. Salzer (RTS Software Ltd.) [Israel]
ATRs (Atomic Requirements) Used Throughout Development Lifecycle (6S1)

Hanania Salzer was born in Hungary 49 years ago. Earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Zoology from the Tel-Aviv University in Israel. In 1982 he switched professions and became a programmer. In 16 years he has worked in three large organizations managing development and maintenance of large data processing systems. Since 1997 Hanania is the Vice President of QA at RTS Software Ltd., Jerusalem, Israel, where he is leading the company's long term process improvement effort.
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Mr. Fred Scheck (Interim Technology) [USA]
Beyond Y2K & The New Software Quality Professional (VT10)

Fred Scheck is Vice President and Senior Director for the Software Quality Management and Year 2000 Practices for Interim Technology, The Consulting Group for Northern California. His Information Services career encompasses 28 years in the private business sector and professional consulting community.

His responsibilities include Year 2000 business development and test process management, in addition to oversight for the Software Quality Management Practice. Mr. Scheck conducts Executive Breakfasts and Seminars on quality management and managing the Year 2000 corrective measures, and is a Certified Quality Analyst (CQA) with the Quality Assurance Institute.
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Dr. Norman Schneidewind (Naval Postgraduate School) [USA]
Development and Maintenance Process Assessment Using Reliability, Risk, and Test Metrics (Tutorial D1)

Dr. Norman F. Schneidewind is Professor of Information Sciences and Director of the Software Metrics Research Center at the Naval Postgraduate School. He is the developer of the Schneidewind software reliability model which is used by NASA to assist in the prediction of software reliability of the Space Shuttle, by the Naval Surface Warfare Center for Trident and Tomahawk software reliability prediction, and by the Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity for software reliability assessment. This model is one of the models recommended by the American National Standards Institute and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Recommended Practice for Software Reliability.

Dr. Schneidewind is a Fellow of the IEEE, elected for "contributions to software measurement models in reliability and metrics, and for leadership in advancing the field of software maintenance". The Naval Postgraduate School awarded him a certificate for outstanding research achievements in 1992. He was Chairman of the Working Group that produced the IEEE Standard 1061-1992, Standard for a Software Quality Metrics Methodology and its revision in 1998. In 1993 he was given the IEEE Computer Society's Outstanding Contribution Award "for work leading to the establishment of IEEE Standard 1061-1992". In addition, he was given the IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Service Award "for his long-term committed work in advancing the cause of software engineering standards".

Dr. Schneidewind has been an invited speaker at the University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Irvine; Linkoping University, Sweden; Technical University of Dresden, Germany; speaker in the "Distinguished Speakers Series" at Florida Atlantic University; The National University of Singapore; British Telcom Laboratories, U.K.; Laboratoire d' Automatique et d'Analyse des Systems, France; NASA Johnson Space Center; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Sandia National Laboratories; Santa Clara Valley IEEE Product Safety Technical Committee and System Safety Society; Santa Clara Valley Software Quality Association; Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter of the IEEE Reliability Society; and the Naval Surface Warfare Center. He has also been a keynote speaker at the Stan Ackerman Institute, Technical University of Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe '96, Switzerland; The Institute of Decision Science, Claremont McKenna College; and the Conference on Software Maintenance, Miami, Florida.

Dr. Schneidewind organized the first Conference on Software Maintenance in 1983. He was the General Chair for the International Conference on Software Maintenance, 1996 and has been appointed the General Chair for this conference in 2000. He was also the General Chair of the International Symposium for Software Reliability Engineering-1994 and Program Chair of the 9th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 1989.

Prior to joining the Naval Postgraduate School Dr. Schneidewind held several technical management positions in the computer industry, where he directed a number of projects, including the National Marine Data Program, Executive Office of the President; National Traffic Data Center, U.S. Department of Transportation; studies on information systems for the Library of Congress; Bay Area Rapid Transit System computer control system; California State Utilities Commission; Navy Submarine Logistics project, and the Marin County data processing study. He also managed the development of a 100 million record title company tax and lien application and was the manager of a 60-person computer center that processed these applications. He received the Commissioner's Award of the U.S. Bureau of Customs for "Contributions to the Data Processing Advisory Panel".

Dr. Schneidewind has a B.S.E.E., University of California (Berkeley); a M.S.E.E. and a M.S.C.S., San Jose State University; a M.S.O.R. (ENGR) and a doctorate, with a major in O.R., University of Southern California. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi engineering honor societies and Sigma Xi research society and holds the Certificate in Data Processing (CDP) from the Institute for Certification of Computer Professionals.
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Mr. J.P. Schroeder (Teradyne) [USA]
Model-based Testscript Generation for a C++ Class (SBS2)

John Schroeder is a Telecommunications Applications Engineer for Teradyne SST, specializing in the design of tests and automated test execution for quality assurance of software and embedded systems. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in geography from Villanova University and his Master's Degree in administration from Boston University.
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Mr. Jeff Schuster (Rational Software Corporation) [USA]
Facing the Future: E-Commerce Quality and YOU! (Keynote 1P2)

Jeff Schuster has over fifteen years of direct experience in automated testing and is responsible for defining the Performance Test Product line for Rational Software Corporation. Since 1987, Schuster has worked on all aspects of preVue, the performance test and load generating software for ASCII, X-Windows, and Client Server based applications. He was a member of the original preVue development team before moving into marketing, sales, and business development for the preVue product line. Schuster started his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1981 where he designed and developed automated testing software for telecommunication applications.
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Mr. Roger Sherman (Consultant) [USA]
Facing the Future: Commercial Product Testing (5P2)

Roger W. Sherman is the former Director of Testing for Microsoft, a post he held during the releases of Microsoft Windows 95 and Microsoft Office 95. He has published articles in such journals as American Programmer and Crosstalk, and has been a keynote speaker at numerous software quality conferences. Before his ten years at Microsoft, Mr. Sherman was a Quality Assurance Manager of Boeing Computer Services, and an operating systems tester for one of Boeing's largest data centers.
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Mr. Ron Silacci (Lucent Technologies, Inc.) [USA]
A Testers' Top 10 List (3A1)

Ron has more than 30 years experience with AT&T, Bell Labs and Lucent Technologies. 20 of those years he has spent in Testing. Ron received his BS and MS degrees from UC Davis. He is currently a Technical Manager at Lucent testing a large integration of over 20 Lucent Systems.
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Mr. Leon Slota (Neoglyphics Media Corporation) [USA]
Developing Load and Performance Requirements for Web Sites (7A1)

I currently work at Neoglyphics Media Corporation in Chicago as the head of the quality assurance group. My most recent project was quality assurance for the development of an online catalog and e-commerce site. I have worked in the software qa field for the past 10 years and have special interests in review processes, metrics, and automated testing.
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Mr. Michael L. Smith (McCabe & Associates) [USA]
Software Quality (VT2)

Michael L. Smith, Director, Product Management at McCabe & Associates, is responsible for overseeing and directing all aspects of McCabe's product lines. A veteran of the company, Mr. Smith has spent seven years at McCabe gaining experience in a wide variety of technical and sales positions.

Mr. Smith was the Product Manager for McCabe's Visual 2000 product line, managing the Visual 2000 product line and team, Mr. Smith created and directed the pre-sales support group to assist the sales staff in pursuing and securing new business. As the sales support manager, he was responsible for giving technical presentations and demonstrations to potential clients as well as managing all of the technical resources that support McCabe's sales initiative.

Among his many accomplishments, Mr. Smith helped establish McCabe's technical support department, which interfaces between McCabe customers and the development group. With his strong leadership skills and dedication, the technical support department grew from two to thirteen employees and continues to grow. In addition, Mr. Smith co-developed and instructed McCabe's International product training class to new and potential customers.

Smith earned a bachelor's of science in management science with a concentration in decision support systems from Virginia Polytech Institute.
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Mr. Keith Stobie (BEA Systems, Inc.) [USA]
Creating a Testing Culture (9M2)
Building a Common Knowledge Base of Testing (SBB1)

Keith directs QA and Test process and strategy. He plans and designs tests for BEA's OTMs. Previously, Keith was Test Architect at Informix designing tests for the Extended Parallel Server product and Manager of Quality and Process Improvement. Keith is a leader in testing methodology, tools technology, and quality process, and past instructor in Systematic Software Testing and Software Inspections. Keith is in the software task group of ASQ, participant in IEEE 2003* standards on test methods, published several articles and presented at many quality and testing conferences. Keith is an ASQ Certified Software Quality Engineer.
(kstobie@acm.org)
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Mr. Peter Szirmak (Information Balance) [USA]
Y2K: The tasks remaining and the challenge of leveraging knowledge gained for the future (VT8)

Peter Szirmak, a co-founder of Information Balance, Inc., oversees the company's new ventures as Vice President, Special Projects. He is responsible for exploring and developing new opportunities that complement and expand existing competencies. He is in charge of researching new ideas, technologies and business solutions. He has been instrumental in planning, developing and rolling out many of Information Balance's successful service offerings, including the company's full scale of Year 2000 solutions. Peter also acts as Information Balance's ambassador at large by fulfilling speaking engagements at major conferences and for prominent industry discussion groups. He has often been quoted in several leading trade publications.

From his initial medical training, Peter moved to the Information Technology sector in 1982. A graduate of the Honeywell Institute for Computer Science, he completed his formal training at the University of Toronto.
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Mr. Graham Thompson (InCert Software) [USA]
Minimizing Testing While Maximizing Failure Detection (2A1)

Graham is currently responsible for product management at InCert Software. InCert Software, through binary instrumentation techniques, has developed a suite of production based tools that monitor and report on the behavior of application software. Graham has been instrumental in the definition of this product suite to meet real customer needs for failure prevention and recovery.

Graham was previously Director of Sales and Marketing at Global Software Inc., the vendor of GILES 2001, one of the premier Year 2000 software maintenance workbenches. Prior to joining Global, Graham was president and CEO of R&O Inc., North America, the vendor of ROCHADE, the client/server repository. Graham worked for Manager Software Products (MSP) before founding R&O in North America as their U.S. Sales and Marketing Manager. Before joining the vendor community Graham worked for Shell UK Oil Ltd. within their Information Technology division. At Shell Graham cut his teeth within application development learning many disciplines including structured analysis, methodological development, information systems planning, CASE tools and information systems project management. Prior to Joining Shell Graham received a BSc Hons. in Computer Science from Portsmouth University.
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Mr. Steven Toeppe & Mr. Scott Ranville (Ford Motor Company) [USA]
An Automated Inspection Tool for a Graphical Specification and Programming Language (8T1)

Steven Toeppe is a Principal Engineer at Ford Motor Company Research Laboratories. He is primarily focused on conducting research associated with software technology. He has 18 years of software engineering experience. He is currently involved with a major process improvement effort at Ford which is focusing on using graphical programming methods (Matlab Simulink/Stateflow) for production powertrain control systems development. He has held a variety of positions managing the development of embedded systems software. He has a MSEE from Wayne State University and BSEE from the University of Michigan

 
  Scott Ranville graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelors of Science of Engineering in Electrical Engineering in 1992, and a Masters of Science of Engineering with a major in Control Theory in 1993. After college, Scott started work at Ford in the Electrical Fuel and Handling Division developing in-vehicle battery charging algorithms. In 1995 Scott transferred to the Scientific Research Laboratory within Ford where he is currently working. Current research topics include automatic code generation from a model, unit testing, RTOS and other scheduling issues.
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Mr. Bor-Yuan Tsai, Dr. Simon Stobart, Mr. Norman Parrington & Dr. Ian Mitchell (University of Sunderland) [UK]
A State-based Testing Approach Providing Data Flow Coverage in Object-Oriented Class Testing (9T1)

Mr. Bor-Yuan Tsai received the M.Sc. degree in mathematics from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is a Lecturer of the Information Management Department, Tamsui Oxford University College, Tamsui, Taiwan. His research interests include computer software testing, object-orientation, information systems and software engineering. He is studying for a Ph.D. degree at the University of Sunderland in the United Kingdom.

Dr. Simon Stobart is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Sunderland, UK. He is currently part of a team developing and delivering distance learning material world-wide. His research interests include software testing, object-orientation, software engineering and distance learning.

Mr. Norman Parrington is a Principal Lecturer in Computing at the University of Sunderland, where he is also the Director of the Centre for Distance Education in Computing. With Marc Roper he co-authored "Understanding Software Testing" and his research interests include Software Testing, CASE, MetaCASE, Software Pathology and Technology to support Distance Education in Computing.

 
Dr. Ian Mitchell is a senior consultant at STR in the USA. He is also a visiting research fellow at the University of Sunderland. His research interests include O.O. CASE, Rapid Prototyping, and Software Testing.
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Dr. Andreas Ulrich, Mr. Peter Zimmerer & Mr. Gunther Chrobok-Diening (Siemens AG) [Germany]
Test Architectures for Testing Distributed Systems (7S2)

Andreas received the M.Sc. degree (Diplomingenieur) in Computer Sciences from the University of Magdeburg, Germany, in 1992 and his Ph.D. degree (Doktoringeneiur) from the same university in 1998. In 1998 he joined the Corporate Technology Division, the research and development center at Siemens AG, in Munich, Germany. His research interests include test architectures for distributed and concurrent systems, test case generation and specification-based testing, and formal specification techniques. He is an active participant at international conferences such as PSTV, FORTE, IWTCS and others.

Peter studied Computer Science at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, and received his M.Sc. degree (Diploinformatiker) in 1991. He then joined the Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, and has been working in the field of software testing for object-oriented (C++, Java), distributed, and component-based software. He is co-author of several international conference publications, e.g. at EuroStar, Conference on Testing Computer Software and Software Quality Week.

Gunther is with Siemens AG, Corporate Technology in Munich, Germany. His current interests are testing distributed systems, component-based and object-oriented software. Gunther started his career in 1992 at DLR, the German Aerospace Center. He holds a M.Sc. degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Kaiserslautern and a M.Sc. degree in Meteorology from the University of Hannover.

 

 

 
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Mr. George O. van der Veen (TESTMASTERS Inc.) [USA]
Y2K Independent Verification & Validation (VT17)

George O. van der Veen; teacher, entrepreneur, software development manager, software instrumentation specialist, software tester, public speaker and Senior Project Manager with Testmasters, has over 34 years in the data processing industry and offers a multi-faceted perspective to his assignments. As a university level instructor, Mr. van der Veen has provided course instruction in structured programming, structured systems analysis, structured application software testing, Rapid Application Development languages and methodologies and management of application development projects. Mr. van der Veen has had frequent opportunity to apply what he teaches, both as software manager and as a consultant. In his instruction and assignments, Mr. van der Veen emphasizes the need to adhere to structured methodology and disciplines to achieve measurable objectives.

Prior to joining TESTMASTERS in 1996, Mr. van der Veen was an independent consultant and software specialist. As a consultant, Mr. van der Veen managed major projects, managed application development teams, developed project plans and test strategies, created test plans, and coordinated test execution for many diverse applications. Engagements for Mr. van der Veen have been with large financial institutions, insurance companies, government systems, aerospace firms, and software development firms and have also included: MIS assessments; development of enterprise-wide strategic Information Technology plans; corporate automation requirements studies; request for proposal development; evaluation and selection of vendor application software packages; application system requirements development; system design; system development; data conversion; evaluation and selection of project personnel; and system development project audits.

A typical TESTMASTERS' assignment for Mr. van der Veen may include contract negotiation, project management, project and test plan development, test strategies development, coordinated test execution. Mr. van der Veen's current assignment is with the California Power Exchange.

Mr. van der Veen's current and previous client list includes: Association Group Insurance Administration (AGIA), Bendix - Electrodynamics Division, California Power Exchange, CCH Computax, First Interstate Bank, First Interstate Services Company, IMS Inc., Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Lockheed Aircraft Services Company, Los Angeles Unified School District, Security Pacific Automation Company, Security Pacific Bank, and Underwriters for the Professions.

Mr. van der Veen holds a Bachelor's Degree and Master's Degree in Mathematics from California State University at Los Angeles.
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Mr. Leonard Verhoef (Human Efficiency) [Netherlands]
Improving Software Quality for Users (Tutorial J1)

Leonard Verhoef (1950) performed research on human thinking. As a psychologist he was involved in the development of several systems (electronic mail, traffic control, process control, public transport, public information, software design). He also investigated how to apply psychological knowledge in the design process. Now he is working on "A future based on psychology" and "How to unenslave Windows users".
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Mr. Matias Vierimaa, Ms. Minna Mäkäräinen & Mr. Atte Kinnula (VTT Electronics / Nokia) [Finland]
Improving DSP Software Engineering Processes from the Testing Viewpoint (8A2)

M.Sc. Matias Vierimaa works at VTT Electronics, one of the largest European R&D organizations focusing on electronics. Since the beginning of 1996, he has been a research scientist of embedded software at VTT Electronics. He has written several publications on software process improvement. Mr. Vierimaa has worked in several process improvement projects with both industrial and research partners.

 

 

 
Phil.Lic. Minna Mäkäräinen works at VTT Electronics as a senior researcher specialized in process improvement. She has been with VTT Electronics since 1993 and has worked with several companies in process improvement projects. She has written several publications on software process improvement and is currently working on her Ph.D.

 
M.Sc. Atte Kinnula is a senior research engineer at Nokia Mobile Phones (NMP), the world's largest producer of mobile phones and a leading company in the telecommunications industry. Since joining the company in 1993, Mr. Kinnula has worked on the area of software process improvement and quality management. From 1997 to August 1998 Mr. Kinnula was the manager of NMP's global Software Process Improvement Program and is now working on his Ph.D.
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Dr. Siegfried Voessner, Mr. Michael O'Sullivan & Mr. Joachim Wegener (Stanford / Daimler-Chrysler) [USA / Germany]
Genetic Algorithm with Cluster Analysis for Software Testing (8S1)

SIEGFRIED VOESSNER has a MS in Mechanical Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from Technical University of Graz, Austria. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Engineering Economic Systems and Operations Research Department of Stanford University. His research interests focus on Logistics, Stochastic Modeling, Materials Handling, Production Planning and Scheduling, Combination of Evolutionary Computation Methods with classical Optimization Techniques for Global Nonlinear-, Stochastic Optimization - especially Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming. His industrial experience includes several consulting projects in the area of optimization, quality management, data mining/modeling and software development. Dr. Voessner is author or co-author of several papers and has presented on national and international conferences.

MICHAEL O'SULLIVAN has a MPhil in Operations Research from Auckland University, New Zealand, and a MS in Engineering-Economics Systems and Operations Research from Stanford University, USA. He is currently completing his Ph.D. at the Engineering-Economics Systems and Operations Research Department of Stanford University. His research topic is Dynamic Programming, specifically dealing with the Numerical Linear Algebra for solving dynamic programs. Other research interests include Integer and Network Optimization, Stochastic Programming and Genetic Algorithms.

JOACHIM WEGENER has a degree in Computer Science from Technical University of Berlin. Currently he is working as a scientist in the Software-Technology Laboratory of DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology. He was involved in the development of the classification-tree editor CTE and the test system TESSY. He is currently working on methods and tools for software reliability engineering as well as on systematic software testing methods for the examination of real-time systems. Joachim Wegener is author or co-author of several papers and has presented on national and international conferences, e.g. EuroSTAR and Quality Week.=20
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Dr. Tony Wasserman (Software Methods & Tools) [USA]
Testing Web Applications (SBB2)

Anthony I. Wasserman is President of Software Methods & Tools, which provides software development products and services. He was previously Founder and Chairman of IDE, which built the Software through Pictures modeling environment. Prior to that, Dr. Wasserman was a University of California professor, and has been a Visiting Professor at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, and the University of Geneva. Tony has made numerous contributions to software engineering research, including pioneering work in rapid prototyping of interactive information systems and software engineering environments. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA. He is among the few people to be elected as a Fellow of both the Association for Computing and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
(tonyw@methods-tools.com)
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Mr. Reinhard M. Weiss (Further Inspections, Inc.) [USA]
Automated Load Testing of DB2 Client/Server Systems (SBA2)

I am a graduate of Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI) with a BS in Engineering (1985) and MS EECS (1990). I have worked in Software Engineering for 10 years, the first 8 in medical imaging and the last 2 as a Client/Server Load Testing consultant and trainer. I have worked with over 50 different clients ranging from financial institutions to insurance companies to manufacturers. I have extensive experience in software development, user interface design, project management, quality process development (including ISO 9000 certification), and (of course) automated testing tools. Our company specializes in providing consulting and training services in automated testing products and overall Software Quality Assurance techniques.
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Mr. Mark S. Wiley (nCUBE) [USA]
OS and Embedded System Testing Techniques (3B2)

Mr. Mark Wiley has spent twenty five years in the field of software development and testing. He has spent over 10 years designing and implementing tools and techniques for testing system software on multiple CPU machines. He is currently the Technical Lead for nCUBE's testing group.
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Mr. Jim Williams (CableData, Inc.) [USA]
Testing for Y2K Compliance: A Case Study (7S1)

Jim Williams is the Manager of Automated Testing at CableData, Inc. He is actively involved in the process improvement of software testing and software testing technologies within the Quality Assurance group, as well as the day-to-day Managing of the Automated Testing Center for CableData. Jim has been involved with software quality for over 16 years, 11 of which with CableData. He is a Certified Quality Analyst and also holds a Total Quality Management certification. Jim received his Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Finance from Chico State University.
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Mr. Rodney Wilson (KLA-Tencor) [USA]
Care and Feeding of a Testing Career (8B1)

Rodney Wilson has worked in software product development and testing for over 20 years. He has been involved in system and application software development from laptop to supercomputer systems. Currently he is the director of engineering operations for the Yield Management Software division of KLA-Tencor Corporation. He is also author of "Software Rx: Secrets of Engineering Quality Software", "UNIX Tamed", and "UNIX Test Tools and Benchmarks", all published by Prentice Hall.
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Mr. Tom Wissink (Lockheed Martin Mission Systems) [USA]
Test Engineering -- A "Value Add" Career Path! (9M1)

I have been in the computer industry since 1973 and in the aerospace business since 1975. I have worked on the Space Shuttle, the Air Forces' Satellite Command and Control Centers, the Global Positioning System and currently the Hubble Telescope Project. I have primarily been involved with Integration and Test type tasks. I have also been a programmer, a configuration management specialist, a manager and a technical lead. I work for the part of Lockheed Martin that has the heritage of IBM, Loral and then Lockheed Martin.
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Mr. Glen Xia (Deloitte Consulting) [Australia]
An Industrial Case Study of Quantitative Management for Object Oriented Software Testing (6A2)

Glen Xia is currently a senior consultant with Deloitte Consulting, Deloitte Touche Tohamatsu , Sydney, Australia. He specializes in Software Testing, Software Measurement, Software Reliability Engineering and Software Process Improvement. He was a Software Estimation and Metrics Manager with GIO Australia, prior to his current position. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering Degree from the Nanjing Institute of Technology and a Master of Applied Science Degree from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He published a dozen papers in international journals and conferences in the areas of his specialization. He is a member of IEEE Computer Society.
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Ms. Fan Yang, Mr. Trung Nguyen & Mr. Anant Adiga (Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.) [USA]
A Web-based System Testing Repository Model (6T1)

Fan Yang is a Senior Software Engineer with Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. She works as a Technical Project Leader in System Test Department. Her major focus is on leading the product releases and internal system testing process improvement projects. Fan has 12 years of experience in computer industry working as research staff in college, system analyst, Oracle DBA and software engineer. She has published several papers in software application development and software engineering area. She received her BS in Computer Science from Sichuan University, China and MS degrees in Computer Science from Montana State University.

 
  Trung Nguyen is a Systems Test Department manager with Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. His primary area of expertise lies in managing complex system testing organization to produce the optimum results to meet the Time-To-Market pressure. Trung has 17 years experience in quality assurance and system testing with focus on Unix market segment. Of those 17 years, 10 years have been in management positions with various high-tech companies in the Portland, Oregon area. He received his BS in Mathematics from Portland State University and his MS in Applied Information Management from University of Oregon.

 
  Anant Adiga is a member of System Test group who is responsible for evaluation and recommendation of new benchmark and customer usage models for System Test group to acquire and port, improve System Test group database related processes. He has over 8 years of experience is software technical support and applications development. He received Masters degree in Computer applications in 1991 from BMS Engineering College, India.
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Mr. Scott Young (Perot System Corporation) [USA]
Them and Us: Communication between Development and Test (8M2)

Scott Young is a Quality Assurance specialist with Perot System Corporation in Reston, VA. He has more than 10 years of experience of both development and testing. He has worked in Europe and America on both commercial and safety critical applications and has led the quality assurance efforts on several large integration projects. He now specializes in quality assurance process design.
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