12th International Software Quality Week: Program Highlights

121th INTERNATIONAL
SOFTWARE QUALITY WEEK
(QW'99)

24-28 May 1998, San Jose / Silicon Valley, California USA

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Over 80 Presentations!
Here are some Highlights from the Complete Technical Program for QW'99.

Fifteen full-day and 1/2-day Tutorials
Seven Keynote Speakers
Seven Quick-Start Tutorials
56 Regular Papers Six Parallel Tracks
A Two-Day Tools Expo
Birds-Of-A-Feather Sessions
...and more!

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Mr. Martin Pol (IQUIP Informatica B.V.) Facing the Future Means Facing Test Maturity
Mr. Jeff Schuster (Rational Software Corporation) Facing the Future: E-Commerce Quality and YOU!
Dr. Cem Kaner (Independent Consultant) Facing the Future: The Law
Mr. Roger Sherman (Consultant) Facing the Future: Commercial Product Testing
Dr. Jakob Nielsen (Nielsen Norman Group) Facing the Future: Usability Aspects of Quality
Mr. Brian Marick (Reliable Software Technologies) Facing the Future: New Models for Test Development
Dr. Boris Beizer (Independent Consultant) The Mavin

TUTORIAL SPEAKERS

Dr. Edward Kit & Mr. Hans Buwalda (Software Development Technologies / CMG Finance) Integrated Test Design and Automation
Dr. John McGregor (Clemson University) Testing Distributed Object Systems
Ms. Karen Bishop-Stone (Testware Associates, Inc.) Practical Software Test Case Design
Dr. Norman Schneidewind (Naval Postgraduate School) Development and Maintenance Process Assessment Using Reliability, Risk and Test Metrics
Dr. Linda H. Rosenberg (SATC, NASA) Writing High Quality Requirement Specifications
Mr. Thomas Drake (CRTI) Measuring Object-Oriented Software Quality for C++ and Java
Mr. William Bently (Mu_Research) How to Test an Object: The Information Flow Approach
Dr. John D. Musa (Independent Consultant) Software Reliability Engineering: More Reliable Software, Faster
Dr. Boris Beizer (Independent Consultant) An Overview of Testing: Unit, Integration, System
Dr. Magdy Hanna (International Institute for Software Testing) Establishing a Software Inspection Process
Mr. Robert Binder (RBSC Corporation) Modal Testing Strategies for Object-Oriented Software
Mr. Leonard Verhoef (Human Efficiency) Improving Software Quality for users
Mr. Michael Deck (Cleanroom Software Engineering, Inc.) Requirements Analysis Using Formal Methods
Mr. Tom Gilb (Result Planning Limited) Advanced Inspection
Ms. Sally Drew (Tescom UK SST) E-Commerce Testing -- The Clash of the Titans

QUICK-START MINI-TUTORIALS

Mr. Rainer Pirker & Mr. Andreas Rudolf (IBM) Millennium is Getting Closer -- The Quickstart to Y2K Testing
Mr. Tom Gilb (Result Planning Limited) Evolutionary Project Management (`Evo')
Mr. Bill Deibler (Software Systems Quality Consulting) Making the CMM Work: Streamlining the CMM for Small Projects and Organizations
Mr. Douglas Hoffman & Dr. Cem Kaner (Software Quality Methods, LLC / Independent Consultant) Thoughts on Oracles and Software Test Automation
Mr. Ted Hammer (NASA GSFC SATC) Continuous Risk Management at NASA
Dr. Cem Kaner (Independent Consultant) Interviewing Software Testing Job Candidates
Ms. Elfriede Dustin, Mr. John Paul & Mr. Jeff Raksha (CSC) Moving From Conventional Testing to Object-Oriented Testing

SPECIAL BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER SESSIONS

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

REGULAR PAPERS

Over 50 regular papers and presentations in parallel tracks on such important software quality topics as:

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

Over 80 Presentations! Here are some Highlights from the Complete Technical Program for QW'99.
Fifteen full-day and 1/2-day Tutorials Seven Keynote Speakers Seven Quick-Start Tutorials 56 Regular Papers	Six Parallel Tracks A Two-Day Tools Expo Birds-Of-A-Feather Sessions ...and more!