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).

ABOUT ACM SIGSOFT...

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...

ABOUT Software Development magazine...

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...

 

 

GOLD SPONSORS 

ABOUT Rational Software...

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.
 

 

SILVER SPONSORS 
 

 

ABOUT Capital One Services...

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.
 

 

ABOUT Interim Technology...

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®.

 

 

 

ABOUT Software SETT Corporation...

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.
 

 

 

ABOUT Sun Microsystems...

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.

 

 

 

ABOUT Testmasters...

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.