Overview: TESTING COMPUTER SOFTWARE Conference (TCS'99)
The 16th International Conference on TESTING COMPUTER SOFTWARE (TCS'99) will be held June 14-18, 1999 in the Washington, D.C. area. The Conference is on June 16-18, expanded with pre-Conference Tutorials. The theme of the Conference is "Future Trends in Testing." The Conference provides an opportunity to participate in the leading international conference on software testing. The goal of the 1999 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 TCS'99 program can be explored on the Web: <http://www.uspdi.org/conference/overview.html>; KEYNOTE and FEATURED SPEAKERS: "What Has Software Testing Research Done For Me Lately, and What Will It Do For Me in the Future?" by Elaine J. Weyuker "Operational Profiles -- Where Testing Is Going" by John D. Musa "Software Testing in the Next Ten Years: The Ugly Duckling Grows Up" by James Bach "To Automate or Not to Automate -- That Is the Question" by Mark Fewster "The Future of Software Liability" by Cem Kaner "Conference Reflections -- and a few surprises thrown in!" by Boris Beizer PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIALS (June 14-15) will present comprehensive technical sessions for software testing practitioners: 1. "Test Automation -- Starting Test Automation" by Mark Fewster 2. "Practical Testing Approaches" by Simon Mills and Louise Tamres 3. "Fundamentals of Internet/Intranet Application Testing" by Marnie Hutcheson 4. "Java Testing" by Jonathan Beskin 5. "Millennium Inspections: Advances in Software Engineering Quality Control" by Tom Gilb 6. "Introduction to Software Test Management" by Dorothy Graham 7. "Test Automation -- Automating Test Execution Successfully" by Mark Fewster 8. "Foundations of Software Testing Techniques" by Boris Beizer 9. "Survive and Prosper in Your "Risky" Test Environment" by Marnie Hutcheson 10. "More Reliable Software Faster with Software Reliability Engineering" by John D. Musa 11. "Risk Assessment in Software Projects" by Denis Meredith 12. "Inspection for Software Testers" by Dorothy Graham 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; Automation; Object Oriented; Distributed Testing; Java; Techniques; Model Based; Requirements; Real-time. 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 comprehensive 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 valuable references after the Conference. OBTAINING INFORMATION You can receive the printed TCS'99 brochure by: phone - 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: 301/270-1033 Fax: 301/270-1040 E-mail: admin@uspdi.org (Subject: TCS'99) Web: <http://www.uspdi.org/conference>; * * * * *