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12th INTERNATIONAL SOFTWARE QUALITY WEEK (QW'99) 24-28 May 1999, San Jose / Silicon Valley, California USA INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD |
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The 12th International Software Quality Week Technical Program is reviewed by a distinguished International Board of Advisors listed below.
Advisory Members are chosen for their expertise in software testing, software quality process, and software quality issues and generally for their contributions to the software quality field. Quality Week seeks a balance between industrial, government, vendor, and academic backgrounds. In view of the international aspect of the conference the Advisory Board includes members from many countries throughout the world.
All papers at QW99 are reviewed by a majority of the Advisory Board's members. Paper selections are based on the QW99 Advisory Board's technical content and presentation evaluation scores.
Updated 2 May 1999.
Here are brief biographical descriptions of
each QW'99 Advisory Board member.
Email access information and a hotlink to each members personal
home page is included where known.
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.
Larry was an Executive Director of AT&T Bell Laboratories where he worked
for 35 years.
As a software project manager he successfully built, sold and deployed a
software system that automated the 100 million paper records telephone
companies used to keep track of telephone lines to people's homes. Through
his leadership new data base algorithms were discovered, implemented and
patented. He led the development of more than 10 projects ranging in size
from 50-400 people spanning 2-5 years of development bringing them in within
budget and on schedule.
As a technologist he invented the concepts of 'dynamic provisioning' and
'routing to intelligence' which are included in the seven patents he holds.
He saw the opportunities contained in research into software fault tolerance
and championed its commercialization. It is now used in 24 products
deployed in over 500 sites.
As a contributor to the profession he was recognized as a Fellow of the
IEEE, the ACM and Ball State University. He is a member of the Russian based
International Information Academy. He is a visiting associate of the Center
for Software Engineering at the University of Southern California.
Mr. Drake has personally measured and analyzed over 80,000,000 lines of Java,
C++, C, Ada, Fortran, PL/I, and Assembly code plus others. Over the past
several years, some very interesting patterns have emerged. The result
of all the analysis is a highly correlated set of measures that have been
developed into a streamlined set of code-level release criteria. This data is
then combined with defect density information derived from dynamic testing
data from each "phase" or milestone of the development life cycle as a feedback
loop for making informed business decisions to improve the
quality of the software over time via the process by which the development
project is delivered.
Mr. Drake has spoken at several international conferences and frequently conducts
interactive and facilitated educational and general interest seminars on the people,
process and technology sides of software development and enterprise-level information
management systems.
He considers himself a quality advocate and a digital archaeologist.
He supports the "weak-link" theory of software development and the use of software
entropy principles as a risk identifier for generating higher quality software-based
information technology systems.
He is also involved in Y2K contingency planning and related business enterprise and
mission continuity support.
He is currently focused on the development and use of product-level and reflected
process-level OO metrics for C++ and Java.
He is the principal author of a chapter on "Metrics Used for Object-Oriented Software
Quality" for a CRC Press Object Technology Handbook published in December of 1998.
In addition, Mr. Drake is the author of a theme article entitled: "Measuring Software
Quality: A Case Study" published in the November 1996 issue of IEEE Computer.
Mr. Drake is listed with the International Who's Who for Information Technology for 1999.
Mr. Drake is a member of IEEE and an affiliate member of the IEEE
Computer Society.
(tom.drake@coastalresearch.com)
As a technical consultant, Bill works with companies and organizations in
applying software reliability. While at AT&T Bell Laboratories, he has held
various positions including distinguished member of technical staff,
technical manager, technical consultant in software development
organizations. He was the team leader in defining a practice for Software
Reliability Engineering within AT&T. He has consulted with organizations
throughout AT&T on both software reliability and software process engineering.
Bill is a senior member of IEEE, and members of SIAM and ICCA. He received
a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology
and an Engineer's Degree from the Colorado School of Mines.
Dr. Frank Ackerman, Consultant, USA
Mr. Tim Anderson, Segue, USA
Mr. Larry Apfelbaum, Teradyne, USA
Mr. Walter Baziuk, Nortel, Canada (Technology Track Chair)
Dr. Boris Beizer, Analysis, USA (QuickStart Track Chair)
Mr. William Bently Mu_Research, USA (Applications Track Chair)
Mr. Larry Bernstein Consultant, USA
Dr. Antonia Bertolino IEI/CNR, Italy
Mr. Robert Binder, RBSC Corporation, USA
Dr. Robert Birss, PricewaterhouseCoopers, USA
Mr. Jack Bishop, SVN, USA
Ms. Rita Bral, SR/Institute, USA (QW'99 Conference Director)
Prof. Lori Clarke, UMass, USA
Mr. Thomas Drake, CRTI, USA (Tools & Solutions Track Chair)
Mr. Walt Ellis, Software Process & Metrics, USA
Dr. William Everett, SPRE, USA
Mr. Danny R. Faught, Hewlett-Packard, USA (Birds-Of-A-Feather Track Co-Chair)
Prof. Dick Hamlet, Portland State, USA
Prof. William Howden, University of California, San Diego, USA
Mr. Neil Hunt, Rational, USA
Dr. Andre Kok, CMG, Netherlands (Management Track Chair)
Mr. Brian Marick, RST Corporation, USA (Birds-Of-A-Feather Track Co-Chair)
Dr. Edward Miller, Software Research, Inc., USA (QW'99 Program Chair)
Dr. John D. Musa, Independent Consultant, USA
Ms. Emilia Peciola, Ericsson, Italy
Mr. Martin Pol, IQUIP, Netherlands (Vendor Technical Track Chair)
Mr. Rob Schultz, Motorola, USA
Dr. Antonio Serra, Quality Labs, Italy
Mr. Keith Stobie, BEA Systems, USA
Mr. Otto Vinter, Brüel & Kjaer, Denmark
Dr. Tony Wasserman, Software Methods & Tools, USA
Prof. Lee White, CWRU, USA
Mr. Hakan Wickberg, Volvo, Sweden
Dr. Frank Ackerman, Independent Consultant USA
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.
(FAckerman@aol.com)
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Mr. Tim Anderson, Segue, USA
Tim Anderson has been with Segue Software since 1995. Previously, he
worked as a software architect at Lotus Development, Interleaf, and
elsewhere, and spent several years on the research staff at MIT's
Laboratory for
Computer Science. He received S.B. ('75) and S.M. ('77) degrees in computer
science from MIT, where he also co-authored the computer game "Zork."
(taa@segue.com)
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Mr. Larry Apfelbaum, Teradyne, USA
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.
(larry@sst.teradyne.com)
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Dr. Boris Beizer, Software Engineer, Analysis USA
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.
(bbeizer@acm.org.
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Mr. Walter Baziuk, Nortel Canada
Walter Baziuk earned a BASc. degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor
in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo in 1983 and Professional
Engineering certification in 1986. The last 15 years he has worked at Mitel,
BNR, Nortel and recently Nortel Networks -Bay division. During this period,
Walter has worked in different positions ranging from design through to
project office on five complete end-to-end lifecycles on released products.
This experience has led Walter to his current position where he works in a
corporate group that proactively engages and works with all of Nortel's
Business Units to enhance their products' reliability and quality, time to
market and customers' satisfaction.
Recently, Walter was Program Chair for SRE98,
a joint Nortel & AT&T sponsored conference in Ottawa,
and Tools & Exhibition chair as well as invited dinner speaker for ISSRE'98 in Paderborn, Germany.
(baziuk@nortelnetworks.com.
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Mr. William Bently, Mu_Research, USA
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.
(wbently@fourway.net)
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Mr. Larry Bernstein, Consultant USA
Larry is a recognized expert in Software Technology, project
management, network management and technology conversion. He is president
of the National Software Council with the goal of improving American
software competitiveness, making software trustworthy and getting the
software industry, the government and academia to work better together. He
is now doing consulting through his firm Have Laptop - Will Travel and is
the Executive Technologist with Network Programs, Inc. building software
systems for managing telephone services.
(lbernstein@worldnet.att.net.
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Dr. Antonia Bertolino, CNR-IEI, ITALY
Antonia Bertolino graduated cum laude in Electronic Engineering at the
University of Pisa in 1985. Since 1986 she has been a researcher with
the "Istituto di Elaborazione della Informazione" of the Italian
National Research Council (CNR), in Pisa. Her research interests are
in software engineering and dependability. Currently she is working at
approaches for estimating and reducing the cost of debug testing
techniques and at methods for the evaluation of software
reliability. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Systems and Software.
(bertolino@iei.pi.cnr.it)
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Mr. Robert Binder, RBSC, Inc., USA
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 of Chair a newly
formed study group to develop an IEEE standard for built-in test for
object-oriented software. Mr. Binder has an MS in Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Illinois at
Chicago, and a BA and MBA from the University of Chicago. He is an
IEEE Senior Member, a member of the ACM, and holds the CDP and CCP.
(rbinder@rbsc.com)
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Dr. Robert Birss, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, USA
Bob Birss, who recently joined Price Waterhouse to set up a testing activity,
was Manager of Data Center Services for Intuit's San Deigo Data
Center, responsible for processes, QA, and information services. Previously,
he was Manager of Quality Engineering for the Open Financial Exchange on-line
banking project at Intuit. He has held a variety of software quality positions
since 1980 at such companies as Sun Microsystems, AT&T, and NCR. Bob has been
a member of the Quality Week Advisory Board since 1993. He holds a Ph.D. in
Comparative Literature from the University of Iowa.
(robert.birss@us.pwcglobal.com)
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Mr. Jack Bishop, Silicon Valley Networks, USA
Jack Bishop joined Silicon Valley Networks shortly after its inception in
December, 1996 and is currently Field Engineering Manager for SVN. Mr.
Bishop and his team are responsible for consulting services and assist with
testing and test process for SVN clients across many industries focusing on
telecom and high availability systems. He has developed many systems as a
software engineer and tester working on projects ranging from expert
systems to embedded controls to application development. He holds a
bachelor of science degree in mathematics from Northwestern University and
has been involved in the industry for over 10 years.
(jack@svnetworks.com)
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Ms. Rita Bral, SR/Institute, USA
QW'99 Conference Director
Rita Bral is Executive Director of SR/Institute, the sponsor of the Quality Week
conferences, and VP/Promotion at Software Research, SR/Institute's parent company,
a role she has fulfilled since 1990.
At SR she has been responsible for SR's promotion effort, for technical
seminars, publicity, and trade-show activities, and has had major impact
on TestWorks documentation and collateral technical material.
Ms. Bral holds an Agrege in Pedagogy, University of Ghent and
Licentiaat in Roman Philology, University of Ghent, Belgium.
(bral@sr-corp.com)
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Prof. Lori Clarke, UMass, USA
Lori A. Clarke received a BA degree in mathematics from the University of
Rochester and a PhD degree in computer science from the University of
Colorado. She joined the computer science faculty at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1975, where she has continued to pursue research on
a broad range of issues affecting software engineering, including software
validation, object management, and distributed object technology. Dr. Clarke
is a former IEEE Distinguished Visitor, ACM national lecturer, member of the
National Science Foundation CCR advisory board, 1990 recipient of a University
of Massachusetts Chancellor's medal, 1993 recipient of a university faculty
fellowship, and associate editor of ACM Transactions on Programming Languages
and Systems. She has served on numerous program committees and was program
co-chair of the 14th International Conference on Software Engineering.
Currently, she is chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Software
Engineering (SIGSOFT) and an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Software
Engineering.
(clarke@cs.umass.edu)
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Mr. Thomas Drake, CRTI, USA
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.
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Mr. Walt Ellis, Software Process & Metrics, USA
Mr. Walter Ellis is a consultant in Software Process and Metrics. He
currently chairs the Planning Task Force for the National Software
Council, an advisory organization of industry, academia and government
working cooperatively to maintain America's dominant economic role in
software. Mr. Ellis has 27 years of development and management
experience in industry, 25 of those in IBM's Federal Systems
Division. For 10 years he was in charge of developing policy and
inserting technologies into major NASA, FAA and DoD projects including
testing, measurement, quality, resource estimation and artificial
intelligence. He has served on a number of Boards (National Academy of
Science, ACM, IDA). He is the major author of IEEE Standard 982 A
Dictionary of Measures to Produce Reliable Software. Mr. Ellis
received his bachelors and masters in mathematics from the Catholic
University of America.
(waltelli@erols.com)
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Dr. William Everett, SPRE, Inc., USA
Bill Everett, recently retired from AT&T Bell Laboratories, is currently a
consultant and owner of SPRE, Inc., a company providing consulting services
in Software Reliability Engineering (SRE).Bill has been involved in SRE for
10 of his 28 years in software development. He is active in professional
activities centering on software reliability. He is the current chair of the
IEEE Committee on SRE. He was the General Chair of ISSRE'97 (International
Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering), Finance Chair of ISSRE'96 &
98, secretary of the IEEE CS Publications Board and vice chair of the
Magazine Operations Committee, a member of the Editorial Board of IEEE
Computer Society Press, a Program Vice Chair for COMPSAC'96, a member of
the Program Committees for Testing'96, ASSET'98 and ISSRE'98, a past
participant in the IEEE Distinguished Visitor's Program, and a past
Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE SOFTWARE Magazine. He is a chapter
contributor to the recently released "Software Reliability Engineering
Handbook", a coauthor of the "AT&T Reliability by Design Handbook" and the
"AT&T SRE Best Current Practice". He has contributed over two dozen papers,
talks, articles, and book chapters on software reliability.
(w.w.everett@computer.org)
( Click here for Dr. Everett's Home Page)
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Mr. Danny R. Faught, Hewlett-Packard, USA
Danny R. Faught serves as a software quality analyst in the
Productivity and Quality group within Hewlett-Packard's Richardson
System Software Lab. He is the creator and maintainer of the
comp.software.testing FAQ, co-founder of the swtest-discuss
maling list, and facilitator of the cst-improve, a process
improvement effort for comp.software.testing. He has
published papers and participated in panel sessions at Quality Week,
STAR, Interworks, High-Performance Computing Users Group, and ASSET
conferences. He serves on the "Practicality Gauntlet" for the software
Testing and Quality Engineering magazine. Mr. Faught is a member of the
American Society for Quality. He graduated from the University of North
Texas with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science in 1992.
(faught@asqnet.org)
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Prof. Richard Hamlet, Portland State University, USA
Dick Hamlet is Professor of Computer Science at Portland State
University. He has worked as an operating-systems programmer and
systems-programming manager for a commercial service bureau and for a
university data-processing center. He was a member of the software
engineering research group at the University of Maryland for 12 years,
and a visiting lecturer at University of Melbourne in 1982. He has
been actively involved in theoretical program-testing research and in
building testing tools for more than 20 years. He is the author of two
textbooks and about 50 refereed conference and journal
publications. Currently he is investigating the theoretical
foundations of testing.
(Click here for Prof. Hamlet's Home Page)
(hamlet@cs.pdx.edu)
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Prof. William Howden, University of California, USA
Dr. Howden is a professor of Computer Science at the University of
California at San Diego. He has worked in the area of program testing
and analysis since 1975, with the publication of his paper on symbolic
evaluation and automated test data generation. His work in the area
includes material on fault based testing methods, functional testing,
and the use of comments in systematic program analysis. His recent
work includes the development of analysis tools for a real time and
Ada programs. His book, Functional Analysis and Program Testing,
emphasized the use of broad spectrum functional testing, in which
tests are used that exercise each of the functional components of a
program, including those from specifications and design. He has also
done an analysis of statistical testing methods, and published work on
models which describe how methods combine to produce a cumulative
improvement in fault detection and reliability prediction.
(howden@cs.ucsd.edu)
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Mr. Neil Hunt, Rational, USA
Neil Hunt started his career in a research lab, working on software tools
supporting two experimental VLSI design projects and other research topics.
Frustration with the tools available to help achieve quality in large software applications led to his joining Pure Software in 1992, to help build better software quality tools. He was the architect for three generations of Purify, a run-time error detection tool, and led the teams responsible for PureCoverage, a code-coverage tool, and Quantify, a performance profiling tool.
Neil recently joined Rational Software's SQA team, leading the functional test
engineering group, which is responsible for developing SQA Robot, SQA Team
Test, and Visual Test.
(nhunt@rational.com)
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Dr. Andre Kok studied Computer Science at the Free University (VU) in Amsterdam. After completion of his study, he started working as a researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Group of the VU, and later at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). In this period he publicized a dozen papers and won several awards. In 1990, he got his Ph.D. at the UvA. After this, he worked as a system developer for several companies. He joined CMG in 1996 as a management consultant with a special focus on testing methods. He supported the introduction of TestFrame at a large bank, where his tasks included test management, test consultancy, sales, recruitment and project auditing. Currently, Andre coordinates product development at the TestFrame Research Centre of CMG.
(andre.kok@cmg.nl)
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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. Marick is the author of the widely acclaimed The Craft of Software Testing (Prentice Hall, 1995).
(Brian Marick's Home Page)
(marick@testing.com)
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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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John D. Musa is an independent consultant. He gives courses in software reliability engineering on a world wide basis. He has extensive experience as a software developer and manager. He has 21 years experience in software reliability engineering as one of the creators and leaders of the field, and was elected Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions. He has published over 80 papers and is principal author of the widely acclaimed pioneering book "Software Reliability: Measurement, Prediction, Application." He organized and led the transfer of software reliability engineering into practice within AT&T.
(John Musa's Home Page)
(j.musa@ieee.org)
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Emilia Peciola graduated in Computer Science at the University of Pisa. She has been working in Ericsson Telecomunicazioni in Rome since 1985 involved in software development. Since 1996 she has been managing, under the R&D Division, the Department of System Software development for new telecommunications systems. Within the R&D Division she is also Chair of the Software Technology Committee having the responsibility for monitoring and addressing innovative solutions. Her main research interests are in the areas of Sotware Testing, Software Reliability and Software Architecture.
(E.Peciola@rd.tei.ericsson.se)
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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.
(polmarti@iquip.nl)
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Robert M. Schultz is a Software Testing Technologist at Motorola's Automotive, Energy, and Controls Group. He is actively involved in the improvement of software testing process and software testing technology within this business group. In addition to his focus on product software, he also works with manufacturing test groups and enterprise integration groups to improve software testing in those areas. Rob has been in the software testing and software quality field since 1989, and has been in the software industry for over 10 years. He received the Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree from Valparaiso University.
(schultz@cig.mot.com)
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Dr. Antonio Serra received his degree in electronic engineering from the University of Torino, Italy. Since 1990 he has been President of ASIC S.r.l., Torino, where he has been involved with software testing tools development. He is a consultant in software quality and software engineering for many important companies, especially in military and space applications. His main research activity is in graphic pattern recognition, software analysis and software testing tools. (serra@qualitylab.com)
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Keith Stobie is Quality Assurance and Test Architect at BEA Systems, Inc. Keith directs QA and Test process and strategy. He plans and designs tests for BEA's Object-Oriented Transaction Processing Manager. Previously, Keith was Test Architect at Informix designing tests for the Extended Parallel Server product and Manager of Quality and Process Improvement. Keith held many QA and test roles at Tandem Computers. With over 18 years in the field, Keith is a leader in testing methodology, tools technology, and quality process. He is a qualified instructor in Systematic Software Testing and in software inspections. Keith is active in the software task group of of ASQ, participant in IEEE 2003 and 2003.2 standards on test methods, published several articles and presented at many quality and testing conferences. Keith is an ASQ Certified Software Quality Engineer with a BS from Cornell University.
(Keith.Stobie@BEAsys.com)
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Otto Vinter received his Masters Degree in Computer Science from the Danish Technical University in 1968. He has given public seminars, been associate teacher for BSc. level education in Computer Science, and is a active participant in Danish software-knowledge exchange groups. He is currently responsible for CEC sponsored projects at Brüel & Kjaer to improve the development process. In this position, he has also been active in defining software engineering standards, procedures, and methods to be employed at Brüel & Kjaer. He has been the driving force in the company's transition from procedural programming to Object-Oriented development. He has managed software development projects for 25+ years; with Brüel & Kjaer from 1986, before that with the Danish branch of Control Data Corporation, and with Regnecentralen.
(Dr. Otto Vinter's Home Page)
(ovinter@bk.dk)
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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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(Biography to be supplied)
(leew@alpha.ces.cwru.edu)
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(Biography to be supplied)
(it1.wickberg@memo.volvo.se)
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