(I try to keep the links and names up to date, but I welcome feedback.)
My Associates are the people I work with.
The other quality organizations listed are ones
I have found interesting. They are separated
between Not-For-Profit and Commercial organizations.
My 'Interesting' links are to web pages and articles I point people to or
have otherwise found worthwhile.
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| Associates' Web Sites | ||
|---|---|---|
| URL | Owner | Focus |
| kaner.com | Cem Kaner | Cem has done tremendous things for the software testing profession; for example, writing books on software testing, founding the LAWST workshops, authoring numerous articles on software testing, improving the profession of teaching testing, and helping craft consumer-centric software quality-related laws. |
| satisfice.com | James Bach | Useful articles, ideas, templates, and utilities from one of the field's most interesting thinkers. James developed and teaches Rapid Software Testing - the fastest and most effective way I've seen to find new software defects. |
| RossCollard.com | Ross Collard | Ross is a great teacher and writer on software testing. |
| Testhouse | Testhouse Ltd. | Testhouse is a global company specializing in Quality Assurance Consulting, Testing Solutions and Training. |
| KarenNJohnson.com | Karen Johnson | Software testing professional, consultant, writer, and speaker. Her BLOG is especially well worth a look; she keeps it simple, elegant, thoughtful, relevant, fresh, and useful. |
| qualitytree.com | Elisabeth Hendrickson | Quality Tree Software, Inc.: Consulting and Training in Software Quality and Testing. |
| coyotevalley.com | Brian Lawrence | Project planning from Brian Lawrence & Bob Johnson. |
| exampler.com | Brian Marick | Brian Marick wrote an interesting series of papers for CenterLine. This particular one is a checklist before automating testing. The CenterLine site has a variety of other useful papers. |
| logigear.com | Hung Nguyen | LogiGear: Expert Testing, Real World Solutions. Testing Services, Training, and Defect Tracking products. |
| DevelopSense.com | Michael Bolton | Michael is a tester, testing trainer, consultant, and writer. Well published and active as a speaker at conferences. Co-author with James Bach of the Rapid Software Testing course. |
| MichaelDKelly.com | Mike Kelly | Mike has a site where he links to his publications and projects. |
| pettichord.com | Bret Pettichord | Pettichord Consulting LLC.: Software testing, test automation and software testability. |
| io.com/~wazmo/qa.html | Bret Pettichord | Several interesting papers on test automation and more. |
| jrothman.com | Johanna Rothman | Rothman Consulting Group, Inc. Focus is on project management, risk management, and people management. |
| Not-For-Profit Professional Quality Organizations | ||
|---|---|---|
| URL | Owner | Focus |
| AssociationForSoftwareTesting.org | Association for Software Testing | A nonprofit professional service organization dedicated to advancing the understanding and practice of software testing. (I'm on the Board) |
| kaner.com/lawst.htm | Los Altos Workshop on Software Testing | LAWST: A series of invitation-only, no-cost workshops for experienced software testers whose goal is to facilitate sharing of information in depth. This workshop is where the process was developed and honed by Cem Kaner and Brian Lawrence (with help from 100+ attendees). |
| testingeducation.org | Center for Software Testing Education & Research | CSTER: Their mission is: Create effective, grounded, timely materials to support the teaching and self-study of software testing, software reliability, and quality-related software metrics. CSTER provides a home for many LAWST-like workshops. |
| See CSTER | AWTA | Austin Workshop on Test Automation: An ongoing series of invitation-only, no-cost workshops for professional software test automators. |
| See CSTER | WOCT | Workshop on Combination Testing: An ongoing series of invitation-only, no-cost workshops for professional testers focused on testing combinations of elements. |
| See CSTER | STMR Workshop | Software Test Managers Roundtable: An ongoing series of invitation-only, no-cost workshops for experienced software tester managers. |
| See CSTER | WTST | Workshop on Teaching Software Testing: An ongoing series of invitation-only, no-cost workshops for a mix of academic and professional teachers of testing. |
| performance-workshop.org | WOPR Website | Workshop on Performance and Reliability: An ongoing series of invitation-only, minimal-cost workshops for experienced performance testers and related professionals. |
| SSQA | SSQA | Silicon Valley Software Quality Association (SSQA), a Task Group of the Silicon Valley Section of ASQ. |
| ASQ.org | American Society for Quality (ASQ) | International professional society promoting quality in all fields. |
| asq-silicon-valley.org | Silicon Valley Section of ASQ | Silicon Valley Section of ASQ (# 0613). |
| qualitycouncil.com | Quality Council of Indiana (QCI) | QCI specializes in providing comprehensive, up-to-date study materials for ASQ certification exams. Training books (Primers) are available for twelve different certifications. |
| IEEE.org | Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | IEEE is an international professional society for technical engineers. |
| computer.org | IEEE Computers | IEEE Computer Society: Back issues of IEEE journals, other good stuff. |
| ACM.org | Association for Computing Machinery | ACM is an international professional society primarily for software engineers. |
| PNSQC.org | Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference | Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference each year provides Workshops in Portland and Seattle in May/June and October, and runs an excellent Conference in Portland in October. |
| center.org | Center For Software Development | Center For Software Development, a Not-for-profit group in San Jose with a big test lab and various other support facilities. |
| iso.ch | International Organization for Standardization (ISO) | Describes ISO and has links to other standards organizations. |
| ANSI.org | American National Standards Institute (ANSI) | Technical standards board. |
| NSSN.org | National Standards Systems Network | NSSN helps you find / order various standards. The site has lots of links to standards providers, developers and sellers. |
| STC.org | Society For Technical Communication | Links to research material on documentation process and quality. |
| UCSC Extension | UC Santa Cruz | UCSC-Extension in Silicon Valley (classes in Software Engineering and Quality) |
| Commercial Professional Organizations | ||
|---|---|---|
| URL | Owner | Focus |
| sqe.com | Software Quality Engineering | Software Quality Engineering: (SQE) sponsor for SickyMinds, and STAR, ASM, Better Software, and other conferences and classes focused on software quality. |
| stickyminds.com | Software Quality Engineering | Better Software magazine (was Software Testing & Quality Engineering magazine) & discussion site. Includes many recent papers on software quality related topics. |
| sei.cmu.edu | Software Engineering Institute | SEI has many papers and information on CMM, CMMI, and derivatives. |
| rbsc.com | Bob Binder | A different approach to object-oriented development and testing. |
| spc.ca | Software Productivity Centre | Methodology, training and research center that supports software development in the Vancouver BC area. |
| CSE | Centre For Software Engineering | 'Committed to raising the standards of quality and productivity within Ireland's software development community.' |
| esi.es | European Software Institute | Industry organization founded by leading European companies to improve the competitiveness of the European software industry. Contains the Euromethod contracted software lifecycle and documents. |
| SoftwareTestingInstitute.com | Software Testing Institute | Membership-funded institute that promotes professionalism in the industry. BIG list of pointers to resources in the industry (the Online STI Resource Guide). |
| cigital.com | Cigital | Self proclaimed "leading authority on Software Risk Management." It contains archives of downloadable papers and pointers to other software engineering sites. |
| Dilbert | United Media (Scott Adams) | Dilbert cartoons. |
| cse.dcu.ie | D. J. Mosley | CSST (Client-Server Software Testing) - Lots of client / server publications. |
| quality.org | Bill Casti | Links to quality control source materials. |
| qaiusa.com | QAI | Quality Assurance Institute - Quality control focused on the needs of Information Technology groups. |
| "Interesting" Links | ||
|---|---|---|
| Link | Owner | Description |
| LAWST Handbook | Cem Kaner | Cem Kaner and Brian Lawrence began the Los Altos Workshops on Software Testing (LAWST) in February, 1997 with 12 invited attendees working for two days on automating GUI testing. Sixteen LAWST workshops were run in the next 6 years. The collaborative LAWST style has now branched into dozens of workshop series world wide. In 1999 Cem "wrote the book" to describe how to facilitate these workshops. |
| Avoiding shelfware and [Slides] | Cem Kaner | Cem Kaner summarized the first two years of LAWST in an excellent paper and Keynote address at 1998 STAR East; "Avoiding shelfware: A manager's view of automated GUI testing." I highly recommend it for practioners and managers alike. |
| testinglessons.com | Kaner, Bach, Pettichord | This is the home page for their 2002 book, Lessons Learned in Software Testing. |
| Testing Courses | AST | High quality, low cost, on-line courses in software testing. (Currently FREE for AST members.) |
| Rethinking software metrics | Cem Kaner | Rethinking software metrics: Evaluating measurement schemes was Cem's first of a series of excellent papers and presentations about software metrics. This was published in Software Testing & Quality Engineering magazine (STQE) .Vol. 2, Issue 2, 2000. |
| Measurement of the extent of testing | Cem Kaner | Measurement of the extent of testing another of Cem's presentations about software metrics. This was presented at Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, Portland, OR, October, 2000. |
| Measurement issues and [Slides] | Cem Kaner | Measurement issues and software testing was Cem's keynote address at Proceedings of the QUEST 2001 Segue Software User's Conference, Orlando, FL, April 2001. |
| Measurement dysfunction slides | Cem Kaner | A short course in metrics and measurement dysfunction was a tutorial session Cem presented at 15th International Software Quality Conference (Quality Week), San Francisco, CA, September, 2002. |
| Software engineering metrics | Cem Kaner | Software engineering metrics: What do they measure and how do we know? was presented at 10th International Software Metrics Symposium (Metrics 2004), Chicago, September, 2004 |
| Fundamental metrics issues | Cem Kaner | Fundamental issues in software metrics was a tutorial presented at Canadian Undergraduate Software Engineering Conference (CUSEC 2006), Montreal, Canada, January, 2006. |
Updated March 5, 2009
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