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 (Tyson�s 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: ·····@uspdi.org (Subject: TCS'98)
Web: http://www.uspdi.org/conference
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