Re: Announcing: TESTING COMPUTER SOFTWARE Conference (TCS2000)
If I read this correctly, there is actually an entire industry that revolves around testing software? How bizarre -- I've never seen any evidence of it before. They're obviously not doing their jobs properly. :0) From: uspdi@earthlink.net (USPDI) > >The 17th International Conference on TESTING COMPUTER SOFTWARE (TCS2000) >will be held June 12-16, 2000 in the Washington, D.C. area. The Conference >is on June 14-16, expanded with pre-Conference Workshops (2 days) and >Tutorials (1 day). The theme of the Conference is "Testing Technology vs. >Testers' Requirements." > >The Conference provides an opportunity to participate in the leading >international conference on software testing. The goal of the 2000 >Conference will be to explore which testing technologies we will need to >take into the new millennium and which ones we will not. 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. > >The complete TCS2000 program can be explored on the Web: ><http://www.uspdi.org/conference/overview.html>; > >KEYNOTE and FEATURED SPEAKERS: > >"From Art to Practice: Transferring Testing (and Other) > Technology" by Shari Lawrence Pfleeger >"When Helping Doesn't Help: Software Testing as Codependent > Behavior" by Lee Copeland >"Testing Object-Oriented (OO) Systems: Lessons Learned" by > Bob Binder >"Is an Ounce of Test-plan Worth a Ton of Tools?" by Simon Mills >"Powerful and Pitiful Measures of Software" by Tom Gilb >"Luncheon Address: If I Knew Then What I Know Now" by > Louise Tamres >"Wrap-up Session: Conference Reflections" by Marnie Hutcheson > >PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS and TUTORIALS (June 12-13) will present >comprehensive technical sessions for software testing practitioners: > > WORKSHOPS (2 days) >1. "MITS Test Management Method" by Marnie Hutcheson >2. "Practical Guide to Software Test Management: Task and People > Issues" by Lloyd Roden >3. "Test Automation" by Mark Fewster > > TUTORIALS (1 day) >4. "Testing Distributed Systems" by Lee Copeland >5. "Practical Testing Approaches" by Simon Mills and Louise Tamres >6. "Advanced Testing Tactics: Unconventional Methods to Complement > and Supplement" by Tom Gilb >7. "Testing Object Oriented (OO) Systems" by Lee Copeland >8. "Fundamentals of Testing Software-Intensive Systems" > by Selim Aissi >9. "Specification-Based Testing" by Jens Grabowski and > Thomas Walter > >Detailed descriptions of the Tutorials can be checked out: ><http://www.uspdi.org/conference/workshops.html>; > >CONCURRENT SESSIONS will be divided into four parallel tracks, presenting >a wide variety of topics and issues in major areas of: Management; >Advanced Topics; Practitioner and Automation. The Conference sessions were >designed to meet the needs of software professionals, ADP managers and >their organizations. > >For detailed descriptions of the Technical Program, including Keynote and >Featured speakers see: ><http://www.uspdi.org/conference/program.html>; > >VENDOR EXHIBIT of products and services will provide valuable support >services and software information to your computer software testing >efforts. > >CONFERENCE VOLUME > >A set of conference proceedings, papers and view graphs will be provided >to each participant of the Conference. These materials are useful not only >during the Conference as learning guides, but also as useful references >when the conference is completed. > >NETWORKING: > >Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions allow you to meet and network with the >speakers and other conference attendees, and discuss areas of mutual >interest. > >Lunch Discussion Groups will facilitate the exploration of common interest >topics among the participants. > >SPECIAL EVENT: > >CAPITOL STEPS (Thursday, June 15, 2000 * 6:00 pm) > >The Capitol Steps will provide an evening performance of entertainment. >Featured will be the travails of testers, a bipartisan musical political >satire of the 2000 election year, and other events taking place in the >nation's capital and elsewhere. > >OBTAINING INFORMATION > >You can receive the printed TCS2000 brochure by: >Phone: (+1) 301-270-1033 >E-mail: admin@uspdi.org >Web: <http://www.uspdi.org/conference/brochure.html>; >Web download: <http://www.uspdi.org/conference/printbrochure.html>; > > * * * * * > >To register, or obtain additional information please contact: > >Regular Mail: USPDI, 612 Ethan Allen Avenue, Suite 100; Takoma Park, > MD 20912-5400 (USA) >Phone: (+1) 301-270-1033 >Fax: (+1) 301-270-1040 >E-mail: admin@uspdi.org (Subject: TCS2000) >Web: <http://www.uspdi.org/conference/register.html>; > > * * * * * ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com