TCS'98 TESTING COMPUTER SOFTWARE -- Advance Announcement

From: USPDI <uspdi_at_earthlink.net>
Date: 1997/12/02
Message-ID: <uspdi-0212971337460001_at_1cust178.tnt4.tco2.da.uu.net>#1/1


Mark your calendar for the 15th annual event. Preliminary information is available on the web at http://www.uspdi.org/conference. Detailed brochure will be available soon.

           15th International Conference and Exposition on

                     TESTING COMPUTER SOFTWARE
                   Theme: Testing Under Pressure 

                         June 8-12, 1998
      Washington, D.C. * Sheraton Premiere (Tyson¹s Corner) * USA

IN COOPERATION WITH:
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGSoft American Society for Quality (ASQ) Software Division Software Technology Support Center (STSC)

CONFERENCE PROGRAM BY:
Frontier Technologies, Inc.

CONFERENCE MANAGEMENT BY:
U.S. Professional Development Institute

SCOPE AND PURPOSE The Fifteenth International Conference on TESTING COMPUTER SOFTWARE will provide an opportunity to participate in the leading international conference on software testing. Learn how testing professionals and experts have used advanced methods and testing applications to improve the effectiveness of their testing, reduce testing costs and meet schedule deadlines. Share your own experiences in testing with others. You will be able to exchange knowledge and ideas with people from a wide variety of environments and locations including those from industry, academia and government from the United States and abroad.

Conference tracks will address topics concerning the management of software testing, the application of a variety of software testing techniques, testing case studies, and additional topics that will introduce more advanced ideas.

This conference will provide essential information to all who are involved with or have an interest in software testing. This includes not only practitioners but managers and researchers as well.

The Fifteenth International Conference on TESTING COMPUTER SOFTWARE is where testing practitioners and managers from the commercial and applications software community can learn:

  • Experiences with testing under harsh deadlines or technical restrictions ... or both
  • Ways to improve the testing process
  • Practical experience with the various techniques
  • Which efforts have been most successful
  • Which efforts have been least successful

This conference brings together a set of experienced software testers to share their experiences and what they have learned from them. You will have the opportunity to hear about effective software testing techniques, methods and technologies that have benefited the organizations where they are used.

GENERAL SESSIONS and FEATURED SPEAKERS include:

Testing Strategies for Death-March Projects by Ed Yourdon; Rules of Evidence: Combining Sources for Critical Software Assurance by Charles Howell;
Improved Testing through Software Reliability Engineering by John Musa; Measurement and Testing: Doing More with Less by Shari Lawrence Pfleeger; Evolutionary Testing: The Influence of Evolutionary Project Management (EVO) on Testing by Thomas Gilb;
Conference Reflections by Boris Beizer

PRE- AND POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS will present comprehensive technical sessions for software testing practitioners:

  1. Foundations of Software Testing Techniques
  2. Overview of Software Metrics
  3. Improved Testing through Software Reliability Engineering
  4. The MITs Test Management Method
  5. Automating Software Testing
  6. Testing the Microsoft Way
  7. Software Inspections
  8. Fundamentals of Internet/Intranet Application Testing
  9. Evolutionary Testing
  10. Testing Java Applets and Applications
  11. Testing and the Year 2000: Confronting Risks and Alternatives Among Bad Choices

CONCURRENT SESSIONS will be divided into four parallel track sessions, presenting a variety of management, technical and research topics and issues.

VENDOR EXHIBIT of products and services will provide valuable support services and software information to your computer software testing efforts.

For additional information please contact:

Regular Mail: USPDI, 612 Ethan Allen Avenue, Suite 100; Takoma Park,

              MD 20912-5400, USA.
Phone:        301/270-1033
Fax:          301/270-1040 
E-mail:       admin_at_uspdi.org (Subject: TCS'98)
Web:          http://www.uspdi.org/conference

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