Software Quality Methods, LLC. provides technical and managerial consulting, and training courses in software quality assurance.

SQM provides technical guidance for evaluation of products to delineate quality strategies and testing requirements. Our advanced application of test oracles and automated testing reduces costs and improves the effectiveness of testing. Douglas Hoffman, the President and Chief Consultant of Software Quality Methods, LLC., has published groundbreaking work on test oracles based on his designs and implementations of automated tests.

SQM provides management with organization assessments (with practical recommendations), strategic and tactical planning, and guiding the establishment or transformation of software quality organizations. Assessments and recommendations provide management with objective analysis using comparable best-in-class organizations’ quality systems. Software testing should provide the right information about products at a reasonable cost. Quality assurance organizations should facilitate the creation of software of known, good quality.

SQM provides classroom and online training on crucial topics in the software testing, quality engineering, and management fields. Courses include work pioneered by Douglas Hoffman in software testing, test automation architectures, advanced automated testing, and test oracles.

Classroom courses are available off-the-shelf or customized for presentation to a homogenous group. Some online class exercises can be tailored to specific organizational products, processes, and standards. Public course sessions are available through Association for Software Testing (AST), the University of California, Santa Cruz Extension, and the Silicon Valley Section of the ASQ.

• Black Box Software Testing (Classroom)
• Black Box Software Testing (Online)
• Bug Reporting and Bug Management (Online)
• Test Oracles (Classroom)
• Test Automation Architectures (Classroom)
• Automated Exploratory Testing (Classroom)
• ASQ-CSQE Exam Preparation (Classroom)

For more information or to schedule a complimentary consultation, please contact us via email at doug.hoffman@acm.org. You may also call us at 408-741-4830. 

Updated July 1, 2011

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