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12th INTERNATIONAL
SOFTWARE QUALITY WEEK
(QW2000)
24 May - 28 May, 2000
San Jose, California
SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS
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Quality
Week '99 (QW'99) is run by Software Research Institute (SR/Institute),
a not-for-profit subsidiary of Software Research, Inc.. Organizations which
have agreed to be sponsors of the QW'99 event are given below.
The
QW'99 event is organized and presented in cooperation with certain other
organizations, whose support is also acknowledged below. Note: Additional
sponsors and cooperating organizations are expected to be added. Updated
2 May 1999.
IN
COOPERATION WITH...
ABOUT
ACM...
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is the world's oldest and
largest educational and scientific computing society. With a worldwide
membership of 80,000 IT practitioners and academics, ACM is the premier
forum for all those that wish to keep abreast of the latest information,
trends and developments in the IT industry. ACM offers its members an unprecedented
number of publications, conferences, tutorials, and special interest groups.
( http://www.acm.org).
ACM SIGSOFT focuses on issues relating to all aspects of software engineering,
providing a forum for computing professionals from industry, government
and academia to examine principles, practices, education, and new research
results in software engineering. In addition to ICSE, SIGSOFT sponsors
the Foundations of Software Engineering conference and a variety of one-time
and on-going workshops that bring practitioners, researchers, and educators
together to discuss and debate timely issues. SIGSOFT publishes a bimonthly
newsletter, Software Engineering Notes, which includes articles submitted
by members as well as the popular forum "Risks to the Public", which describes
software safety mishaps and concerns. (
http://www.acm.org/sigsoft).
ABOUT
THE BAY AREA QUALITY ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION (BAQA)...
The Bay Area Quality Assurance Association (BAQA) focuses on local software
quality issues under the leadership of Ms. Alka Jarvis (Cisco Systems)
ajarvis@cisco.com.
ABOUT
CNSS...
The Center for National Software Studies (CNSS) is a non-profit body that
aims to bring major focus on critical software issues facing the nation.
Headed by Alan Salisbury and staffed by recognized authorities and leaders
in the software community, the current CNSS agenda includes investigations
and action programs on USA software value-added awareness, software education
and certification, and software trustworthiness. Click here for complete
information on the National Software
Council (NSC), the organization that has created the CNSS.
ABOUT
SATC...
The Software Assurance Technology Center (SATC) was established in 1992
in the Systems Reliability and Safety Office at NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center (GSFC). The SATC was founded to become a NASA center of excellence
in software assurance, dedicated to making measurable improvement in the
quality and reliability of software developed for GSFC and NASA. Funding
for the SATC is approved by the NASA Software IV&V Facility in Fairmont,
WV for technical and research tasks, and from NASA software development
projects for direct technical support.
SPONSORED
BY...
ABOUT
SR/TestWorks...
Software Research, Inc. (SR) offers
the TestWorks suite of integrated
software test tools that include regression and coverage testing support
for UNIX and Windows platforms, in use by thousands of sites worldwide.
SR's active program of new-product development includes current applications
in Web Testing, UML-Based Test Planning and Development and Remote Testing
Technology. SR publishes the widely subscribed TTN-Online, an Emailed monthly
newsletter (click to subscribe).
MEDIA
SPONSOR...
Software Development magazine, published by Miller Freeman Inc., is the
leading trade publication covering the people, products, and practices
of corporate development. Software Development magazine provides practical
solutions for technical team leads and project managers leading corporate
application development projects. Editorial features strategies and solutions
for evaluating and implementing development tools and solutions for evaluating
and implementing development tools and technologies, software engineering
and quality assurance practices, project and people management strategies,
process improvement, as well as tips on Software Development magazine go
to http://www.sdmagazine.com.
CO-SPONSORS...
Rational Software (NASDAQ:
RATL) helps unify, simplify and optimize the software development process
for customers who depend on their ability to develop and deploy software
for technical, embedded, Web, e-commerce, and enterprise information systems.
Rational's comprehensive solution addresses the major challenges faced
by customers developing the mission-critical software applications that
they depend on. For more information, visit Rational at http://www.rational.com.
Independent since
1995, Capital One (NYSE: COF) is one of the fastest-growing financial services
companies with businesses in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada.
Capital One was recently ranked #41 in Fortune Magazine's "100 Best Companies
to Work For". As a top 10 credit card issuer, Capital One has been named
one of the world's most valuable companies by Business Week and was added
to the S & P index in 1998. For more information on Capital One, check
out our website at http://www.capitalone.com.
Interim Technology, The
Consulting Group is a leading provider of Software Quality Management related
services, which are being utilized by clients across the world in all business
and technical environments. Over 4,700 consultants are employed in more
than 77 offices in the United States, Asia, Europe and Australia.
The Software Quality Management practice has refined its extensive experience
into practical, easy to implement and adaptable strategies and procedures.
These can vastly improve the quality culture of an IS organization and
its software deliverables. Service Assessment and Implementation, Quality
Assurance Consulting, User Services (requirements definition through Acceptance
Testing), Project Management, Metrics & Measurement and Education and
Training.
In addition, Interim Technology can augment their services or license
their proprietary software products: VALI/TEST Pro®, Validation and
Testing Process, Interim Technology SQM Tool Suite® - IT Requirements
Managertm, IT/Test Managertm,
IT/Work Request Managertm, Function Point
Managertm, and Metrics Manager®.
Software SETT Corporation is
an SQA consulting group that specializes in systems evaluation, software
testing and tester training services. For over a decade, we have acted
as a Quality Assurance department - creating test plans, recommending testing
strategies, managing and executing tests, evaluating defect tracking and
automation tools - for a number of prestigious Silicon Valley clients,
ranging from start-ups to the Fortune 500.
A $10 billion company with offices in 150
countries, Sun Microsystems provides end-to-end solutions for doing business
in the network age.
We provide high-speed microprocessors, scalable systems, robust software,
network storage, mission-critical support, and comprehensive professional
services. Not to mention innovative, platform-independent Java and Jini
technologies. In short, all the key components that drive the Internet
as well as corporate intranets and business-to-business extranets.
Which explains why we're the dot in .com.
Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA., Sun recently opened a 170 acre East
Coast Headquarters in Burlington, MA. As well as a new facility in Broomsfield,
CO. For information on job opportunities at Sun, please visit us at www.sun.com/jobs
or www.sunboston.com or send email
to jobs@east.sun.com.
Testmasters, Inc. specializes
in functional test management. Armed with extensive experience in software
systems testing, Testmasters' consultants assist in creating efficient
and cost effective structured test environments. Testmasters' consulting
services and product suite, Test Management Systemtm,
bolster our clients' risk mitigation efforts supplementing, current practices
or introducing new structured methodologies that enable the implementation
of repeatable testing processes. We work closely with both user and technical
staff to formulate an integrated team focuses on timely completion of an
organizations' test objectives.
ORGANIZERS...
ABOUT SR/INSTITUTE...
Software Research Institute (SR/Institute),
a not-for-profit subsidiary of Software Research, Inc., was founded to
promote the issues of Software Quality throughout the software development
community.
In addition to the Quality Week Conference series SR/Institute sponsors
continuing education seminars in the general area of software quality and
software engineering, and Software Quality Forums at which software quality
industry leaders provide state of the art technology transfer to industry
executives about how to best apply current technology to immediate software
quality needs.