[news.announce.conferences] Software Quality Conference

hamlet@ogcvax.ogc.edu (Dr. Richard Hamlet) (08/15/88)

      SIXTH ANNUAL PACIFIC NORTHWEST SOFTWARE QUALITY CONFERENCE
	       September 19-20, 1988, Portland, Oregon

TECHNICAL PROGRAM, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

  Keynote address by Ed Yourdon:  "Software Quality Assurance in the 1990s"

  Three parallel tracks on
     Project Management
     Tools, Testing, Debugging
     Specification, Design, Documentation
  (See details below)

  Special invited presentation by John Musa:
    "Reliability: Measurement, Prediction, and Application"

  Vendor exhibits, and a fourth track of vendor presentations

WORKSHOP SESSIONS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

  Object-oriented Programming and Design (Ralph Johnson, University of Illinois)
  Software Reliability (John Musa, AT&T Bell Labs)
  The Economics of Software Quality and Productivity (Ed Yourdon)
  Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling a Software Engineering Project
    (Rob Breithbarth, Omark Industries)

REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATIONS

  (See registration form at end below.)
  All sessions at Portland Marriott, 1401 S.W. Front, (503) 226-7600.
  Nearby Portland Inn, 1414 S.W. 6th, (800) 648-6440.
  For more information call Lawrence & Craig, (503) 222-2606.

DETAILS OF TECHNICAL PROGRAM

Project Management
  - Risk Management in Software Engineering Projects, Gerry Luengen,
     J. Luengen & Assoc. & Ron Swingen, Mentor Graphics
  - Control Charting in Software Development, Lionel L. Craddock, IBM ABS
  - Five Components of a Software Quality Assurance Paradigm, Patrick H. Loy,
     The John Hopkins University
  - Information Scope and the OVERSEE Configuration Management Environment,
     Steven Wartik, University of Virginia
  - Software Construction Project Management, Robert E. Shelton, CASEware, Inc.
  - Structured Computer Project Management, William H. Roetzheim, MITRE Corp.
  - Software Developer and Vendor Liability, Nancy E. Willard, Attorney at Law
  - FI3T:  An Evolutionary Approach to Software Development at Mentor Graphics,
     Rick Combest & Sue Strater, Mentor Graphics
  - A Methodology for Software Maintenance, John E. Moore, Hercules Aerospace

Tools
  - A Hardware Assistant For Software Testing, Bill Sundermeier, MicroCASE, Inc.
  - A User Interface Toolkit for the X Window System,
     Benjamin Ellsworth, Hewlett-Packard Company
  - Tina:  A Facility for Assisting With Unit Testing,
     Richard D. Sidwell & Gordon W. Blair, Rockwell International

Testing
  - Experimental Results of Automatically Generated Adequate Test Sets,
     Richard A. DeMillo, Purdue University  & Jeff Offutt, Clemson University
  - Using Data Flow Analysis for Regression Testing, Thomas J. Ostrand,
     Siemens Laboratories & Elaine J. Weyuker, Courant Institute
  - Testing Shared-Memory Parallel Programs, Andrew H. Sung, New Mexico Tech

Debugging
  - On the Cost of Back-To-Back Testing, M. A. Vouk, North Carolina State
  - An Execution Backtracking Approach to Program Debugging,
     Hiralal Agrawal & Eugene H. Spafford, Software Engineering Research Center
     Purdue University/University of Florida
  - A Debugging Assistant for Distributed Systems, Daniel Hernandez,
     Technische Universitaet Muenchen & Laveen Kanal & James Purtilo,
     University of Maryland at College Park

Specification
  - Specifying Recoverable Objects, Jeannette M. Wing, Carnegie Mellon
  - Requirements Specification Understanding and Misinterpretation,
     Frank A. Cioch, Oakland University
  - Specifications and Programs: Prospects for Automated Consistency Checking,
     Albert L. Baker & John T. Rose, Iowa State University

Design
  - Fault-Tolerant Software and Object-Oriented Design, Michel Bidoit &
     Christophe Dony, Centre de Recherche de la CGE, France
  - Validation by Pre-reviewing and Justification, Ilkka Tervonen,
     University of Oulu, Finland
  - Multi-Person Projects and CASE, Byron Miller, KnowledgeWare, Inc.

Documentation
  - Data On The Use Of Stepwise Refinement Approach, Pierre N. Robillard &
     Daniel Coupal, Ecole Polytechnique, University of Montreal, Canada
  - Using Formal Specification as a Documentation Tool:	 A Case Study,
     Edward G. Amoroso, Jonathan D. Weiss, AT&T Bell Laboratories

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION (MONDAY)

Mail this form with check made payable to Pacific Northwest Software
Quality Conference, $80 before September 5, $90 after, to:

  PNSQC
  c/o Lawrence and Craig
  P.O. Box 40244
  Portland, OR 97240 USA
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Please check one session choice for each time period:
      10:00			   1:00			       3:00
Proj. Management 1___	   Proj. Management 2___       Proj. Management 3___
Tools___		   Testing___		       Debugging___
Specification___	   Design___		  Documentation/Reliability___