Associates are professionals who have worked with or referred Software Quality Methods, LLC.
Not-For-Profit quality organizations listed are non-profits and Universities we have worked with professionally.
Interesting links are other web pages and articles.

 

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.
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.

Associates | Interesting Links

 

Not-For-Profit Professional Quality Organizations
URL	Owner	Focus
AssociationForSoftware Testing.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.
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.
iso.ch	International Organization for Standardizati on (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.
Florida Tech	Florida Institute of Technology	Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, FL
UCSC Extension	UC Santa Cruz	UCSC-Extension in Silicon Valley (classes in Software Engineering and Quality)
sei.cmu.edu	Software Engineering Institute	SEI has many papers and information on CMM, CMMI, and derivatives.

Not-for-Profit Organizations |Associates

 

"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.
Dilbert	United Media (Scott Adams)	Dilbert cartoons

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(I try to keep the links and names up to date, but I welcome feedback.)

Updated July 1, 2011

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